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
$56.6M
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Tokenless LP-management infrastructure used by protocols/DAOs to run professional, on-chain market-making vaults.
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.
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.
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).
$4 million (SAFT), announced Dec 19 2022; investors incl. Uniswap Labs Ventures, Accel, Polygon Ventures, Robot Ventures
The Block — Arrakis Finance raises $4 millionFormerly G-UNI, incubated by Gelato Network; spun out into its own DAO and rebranded Arrakis Finance in March 2022
Gelato governance forum — Release G-UNI as separate DAOTokenless — no live governance or utility token as of this research
Arrakis Finance official siteHow Arrakis Finance maps onto established TradFi structures, and where it diverges.
Market-making-as-a-service / designated market maker
Arrakis Finance
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.
TradFi analogue
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
Arrakis Finance
Similar to a prime broker or treasury desk managing an institution's asset inventory and liquidity provisioning across venues.
TradFi analogue
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.
Hilmar Orth
Co-Founder Co-founder of Arrakis Finance and co-founder of Gelato Network, the automation protocol that originally incubated Arrakis as G-UNI.
Ari Rodriguez
Co-Founder Co-founder of Arrakis Finance; previously a senior smart-contract engineer at Gelato Network.
Key milestones: launches, upgrades, exploits and governance events.
G-UNI spun out of Gelato and rebranded as Arrakis Finance
ExecutedThe Gelato DAO voted to release G-UNI — an in-house framework for fungible, auto-compounding Uniswap V3 liquidity positions — into its own separate DAO, rebranded as Arrakis Finance.
SourceArrakis Finance announces $4M seed round
ExecutedArrakis disclosed a $4 million seed round raised via a SAFT, with investors including Uniswap Labs Ventures, Accel, Polygon Ventures and Robot Ventures.
SourceSherlock security review of Arrakis V2
ExecutedSherlock ran a security audit contest covering Arrakis V2 core vaults, manager templates (SimpleManager with Chainlink oracles) and periphery routers.
SourceArrakis is a trustless, non-custodial onchain market-making and liquidity-provisioning infrastructure protocol. It lets liquidity providers, protocols and token issuers run sophisticated, capital-efficient concentrated-liquidity strategies on DEXs like Uniswap v3/v4 in an automated way, without needing in-house market-making expertise.
No. Arrakis is tokenless — it has no live governance or utility token. Its 2022 seed round was structured via a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT), but as of this research no token had been issued.
Arrakis began as G-UNI, an in-house application incubated by Gelato Network that wrapped Uniswap V3 liquidity positions into fungible, auto-compounding ERC-20 tokens. In March 2022 the Gelato DAO voted to spin G-UNI out into its own separate DAO, rebranded as Arrakis Finance.
Arrakis Modular is the protocol's universal Meta Vault standard and smart-contract framework. It provides shared vault infrastructure and interfaces so that different two-sided LP vault integrations and any concentrated-liquidity DEX can be supported behind the same modules.
No. Arrakis vaults are non-custodial — only depositors can withdraw their own liquidity, and token issuers using Arrakis Pro retain ownership and control of their assets while Arrakis executes the market-making strategy.
