SynFutures has flipped the switch on an invite-only private beta for what the team is calling its most ambitious upgrade yet. The closed test is intended as a controlled testing ground: a handful of hand-picked partners will ramp up liquidity, stress test the new infrastructure and help SynFutures polish the trading experience before a broader public rollout.
Central to the upgrade is a technical rewrite that aims to reduce order execution across the chain to a latency of around five milliseconds, a speed more commonly associated with centralized top locations. The point, says SynFutures, is to bring that level of responsiveness to a platform that remains completely permissionless and transparent, combining performance with the open ethos of DeFi.
“This beta is more than a technical step. It is the beginning of a new chapter for SynFutures and for decentralized derivatives,” said Rachel Lin, CEO of SynFutures. “We are working hand-in-hand with our closest partners to shape a trading experience that will define the next wave of DeFi adoption.”
Ambitious DeFi upgrade
The upgrade builds on a track record that already includes more than 250 listed trading pairs and cumulative volume of more than $300 billion in previous versions of the protocol. SynFutures is moving to a perp-native architecture, which the team believes will simplify the introduction of permissionless real-world asset (RWA) markets and creative vault strategies in the future.
In addition to the backend improvements, the company is planning community activations and rewards programs to engage users ahead of the public launch. For now, the invitation-only phase is explicitly about acquiring infrastructure, liquidity and institutional readiness before the platform opens its doors to traders worldwide.
SynFutures, headquartered in Hong Kong and backed by well-known crypto investors, is positioning this rollout as the start of a broader effort to build a unified, permissionless and transparent layer for on-chain derivatives trading. If private beta delivers on its speed and stability goals, it could narrow the key performance gap between on-chain and off-chain trading platforms, and make perpetuals onchain much more akin to what traders expect from the best centralized exchanges.
