XBIT DEX, a decentralized trading platform. today announced a strategic partnership with GamePad, a decentralized gaming platform that also functions as a Web3 execution infrastructure, a move that aims to expand the functionality of the DeFi ecosystem. With the partnership, XBIT DEX integrated GamePad’s Web3 smart execution and runtime infrastructure to provide its decentralized trading platform with a powerful, persistent and sustainable execution environment to effectively serve DeFi traders and investors.
XBIT DEX is a decentralized trading platform that aggregates cross-chain liquidity facilities, giving DeFi traders and investors a low-slip trading experience. This aggregation platform supports various DeFi markets, including RWA stocks, spot trading, prediction markets, perpetual contracts, and many others, and includes numerous digital tokens in the unified DEX platform.
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We are excited to announce our partnership with https://t.co/KSUhm8IsFy – a smart execution and runtime infrastructure layer for DeFi, designed to power long-term, continuously operating on-chain systems. https://t.co/KSUhm8IsFy focuses on solving the core… pic.twitter.com/4YVzHqLEgU
— XBIT (@XBITDEX) June 16, 2026
GamePad Integration Important for XBIT
The collaboration between XBIT DEX and GamePad brings with it a difficult reality with these disturbing facts. DeFi has come a long way since its inception in 2018 with the launch of MakerDAO’s prominent DeFi lending platform, and the space continues to evolve significantly. Despite seeing massive developments across the landscape, a larger portion of the DeFi infrastructure is still built on ephemeral execution as smart contracts complete tasks and retire their functionalities over time. While the model works effectively for basic blockchain transactions and applications, it begins to deteriorate once AI agents and long-term strategies become involved in the digital decentralized landscape. This is where Gamepad comes into play to address this underlying problem.
As illustrated by XBIT’s partnership above, Gamepad provides an execution environment that allows Web3 platforms, AI agents, and intelligent strategies to run for long periods of time without the need for constant restarts or redeploys. This highlights a solid solution to solve the above-mentioned critical limitation seen in the current DeFi infrastructure.
Solving smarter execution in DeFi
With the above integration, XBIT leverages Gamepad’s smart execution and runtime infrastructure to move beyond manual, fragmented DeFi interactions to blockchain systems that operate continuously, seamlessly, and adaptively. This means that instead of relying on network teams or users to trigger every blockchain action, XBIT now relies on GamePad’s runtime infrastructure to enable stable, decentralized AI-driven executions that respond in real-time to on-chain conditions, network needs, and predetermined strategies.
Today, most DeFi is still reactive, depending on the action of users and teams while parameters are executed manually, causing network inefficiencies and system failures. This explains how the partnership between XBIT and GamePad solves this gap.