Ekiden is an institutional-grade onchain derivatives exchange that combines an off-chain central limit order book with deferred on-chain settlement for perpetual-futures trading, built on Canton Network. Ekiden's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #53,588 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Ekiden was founded by Vitali Dervoed and launched on Canton Network's testnet as the network's first CLOB-based derivatives exchange. The protocol employs a hybrid RFQ and CLOB architecture, pairing off-chain order matching with on-chain settlement to serve institutional participants in perpetual-futures markets. Prior to its Canton deployment, Ekiden had been developing and testing on Aptos.
Ekiden closed a $2.0M seed round in May 2026, with backing from GSR, Flowdesk, Pyth, Aptos, Monolith, Moonhill Capital, Curiosity Capital, Hardcore Labs, and Keyrock. Ekiden has also become a Canton Network validator and Featured App, locking 5,000,000 $CC onchain, and maintains an affiliation with Avail. Ekiden's account has published 1,927 posts and has been mentioned by 77 accounts a total of 120 times.
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The accounts that follow Ekiden include 70 founders, 18 angel investors, 55 influencers and 2 VCs, among them DCF GOD, Agentyoda, Backpack, Aptos, Logan Jastremski and Damien Dm For Cracked Devs.