TradeLayer is a decentralized derivatives and trading infrastructure protocol that embeds trade messages in OP_RETURN outputs on Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin transactions. TradeLayer's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #86,996 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
TradeLayer was founded by Patrick Dugan, who also authored the protocol's official whitepaper. The protocol supports spot UTXO-for-token and token-for-token trading, perpetual swaps, options, and synthetic-currency minting, positioning itself as a successor to Omni Layer while maintaining no formal connection to that project and having conducted no ICO. TradeLayer identifies TOTAL as its native metacoin for Bitcoin and ALL as its native metacoin for Litecoin, with both usable as collateral and protocol-purchased metacoins flowing into an automated public insurance fund.
TradeLayer uses bilateral 2-of-2 multisignature Trade Channels to enable low-latency trading with deferred or batched settlement. The protocol is published under a Novel Copyleft license that permits forks subject to soft-spooning existing balances, and its code is available through open-source repositories on GitHub. An actively maintained npm package provides node RPC access, wallet-aware orderbook interaction, and futures-market discovery. TradeLayer has been mentioned by 5 accounts, with 15 total mentions across the platform. TradeLayer has published 711 posts since joining in 2018.
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The accounts that follow TradeLayer include 41 founders, 12 angel investors, 19 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are Kyle Samani, smolting wassie, verse, Matthew Graham, Soby, Notsofast and Marty Bent.