BREAKING: Grvt Rewrites Crypto Trading Rules - First On-Chain Exchange to Pay Retail Traders for Market Making

Forget everything you knew about exchange dynamics—Grvt just flipped the script. Retail traders aren't just customers anymore; they're getting paid to provide liquidity.

The New Market Makers

Grvt's on-chain infrastructure cuts out traditional market makers entirely. Instead of relying on institutional whales, the platform incentivizes everyday traders to create depth—and shares the revenue directly back to them.

Why This Changes Everything

By bypassing centralized intermediaries, Grvt slashes spreads and boosts execution speeds. Suddenly, retail isn't just taking liquidity—it's building it. And getting compensated like the pros they're outperforming.

Finally—an exchange that pays you instead of the other way around. Maybe Wall Street's 'best execution' promises should take notes from a bunch of crypto degens.

DeFi platforms still lag when it comes to retail traders

Unlike CEXs and traditional finance platforms, where only market makers qualify for rebates, Grvt will reward all users passively. With this move, the DeFi platform aims to attract more retail liquidity. This could lead to lower hidden costs for traders, tighter spreads, and deeper order books, helping to reduce costs across the marketplace.

Despite the advantages of DeFi platforms when it comes to security and privacy, they still lag behind in retail adoption. CEXs offer easy onboarding and UX features, and dominate in spot volume and the number of users. The total spot volume in Q2 of 2025 was $3.9 trillion on CEXs, vs $876.3 billion for DEXs.

Grvt is a peer-to-peer, self-custodial platform that seeks to include everyday traders in the financial system. Its exchange is built on zkSync’s zero-knowledge infrastructure, enabling privacy and high throughput.