Arrakis Finance
Liquidity · Vaults
Arrakis provides trustless, automated market-making infrastructure for concentrated liquidity. Arrakis Modular lets protocols and DAOs deploy and manage on-chain LP strategies (e.g. Uniswap V3/V4) without a token.
On-chain market making and LP infrastructure.
Managed liquidity
$66.2M
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Research
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Main components (3)
Arrakis Modular
The onchain smart-contract framework and universal Meta Vault standard. It lets protocols, DAOs and token issuers deploy managed, non-custodial concentrated-liquidity LP vaults, and is designed so that any concentrated-liquidity DEX (Uniswap v3/v4 and others) can be plugged in behind the same Meta Vault interfaces.
Arrakis Pro
A non-custodial onchain market-maker service for token issuers. Issuers retain ownership and control of assets in self-custodial vaults while Arrakis executes concentrated-liquidity market-making strategies (Bootstrap, Flagship, Yield-Bearing Asset, Treasury Diversification) on their behalf, combining onchain vaults with offchain market-making infrastructure.
Arrakis Vaults
The vault products for managing liquidity. Vaults come in three management styles: Trustless Vaults (a smart contract with a pre-defined strategy acts as manager), Managed Vaults (operated by professional market makers running offchain strategies), and Self-Managed Vaults (controlled solely by a single owning entity).
Differentiator
Tokenless LP-management infrastructure used by protocols/DAOs to run professional, on-chain market-making vaults.
Organizational structure
Units & roles
- Co-Founder
Hilmar Orth
Co-founder of Arrakis Finance and co-founder of Gelato Network, the automation protocol that originally incubated Arrakis as G-UNI.
- Co-Founder
Ari Rodriguez
Co-founder of Arrakis Finance; previously a senior smart-contract engineer at Gelato Network.
Investment rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Investors | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-19 | Seed | $4M | Uniswap Labs VenturesAccelPolygon VenturesRobot Ventures | Source |
Similarity to traditional finance products
How Arrakis Finance maps onto established TradFi structures, and where it diverges.
| TradFi product | Similarity to Arrakis Finance | Key differences |
|---|---|---|
| Market-making-as-a-service / designated market maker | Like a professional market maker engaged by an issuer, Arrakis Pro provides continuous two-sided liquidity and price support for a token, running algorithmic strategies to keep spreads tight and inventory balanced. | Arrakis is non-custodial and onchain: the issuer keeps assets in their own vault rather than transferring them to a market-making firm, strategies execute transparently on public DEXs, and there is no bilateral loan-of-tokens arrangement or off-balance-sheet counterparty exposure. |
| Prime brokerage / treasury liquidity management | Similar to a prime broker or treasury desk managing an institution's asset inventory and liquidity provisioning across venues. | Arrakis operates entirely through auditable smart contracts on public blockchains, with no discretionary custody of client funds and outcomes governed by transparent onchain vault rules rather than private brokerage agreements. |
Data sources
- Arrakis Documentation — Intro / Arrakis Pro
- Arrakis Modular overview — Arrakis Documentation
- Uniswap blog — Arrakis: Trustless Market Making on Uniswap v3
- The Block — Arrakis Finance raises $4 million (seed)
- Gelato forum — Release G-UNI as separate DAO, rebrand as Arrakis
- Arrakis Finance — Risks page
- ChainSecurity — Arrakis Uniswap V4 Module audit