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What Bolt is

What is Bolt?

Bolt is the for onchain markets. It forecasts a fair price from a cross-venue composite, posts one executable onchain, and settles flow against it. As markets converge toward that price, Bolt captures the spread that would otherwise leak to fragmented execution.
An oracle reports a reference price for others to consume. Bolt runs its own oracle, , and commits an executable price onchain that real trades settle against. Reporting a price is not being the market that trades on it.
Arbitrage captures individual divergences. Bolt continuously synchronizes markets around one executable convergence price. The distinction: arbitrage is reactive; Bolt is structural infrastructure.
Market makers optimize individual venues. Bolt synchronizes the whole market to one price. That is a different problem, and nobody else is solving it.
No. Bolt is not a DEX, a platform, a protocol, or a token. It is a plus : infrastructure that prices the market and settles flow against that price.

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How it works

Where does the price come from?

The Convergence Engine ingests real-time data across trading venues and builds a depth-weighted composite mid-price. AVO smooths that composite into a stable fair mid. When the signal is strong enough and economically meaningful, the engine applies a small gated lead. Otherwise, the convergence price collapses back to the composite.
The convergence price is published onchain as an executable quote, clamped to a bounded deviation from the composite. Pools settle flow against that quote atomically, in a single transaction. The price is decided upstream by the Convergence Engine; the pool is settlement infrastructure.
  1. Market Data. Ingest real-time data across venues, build a depth-weighted composite, and produce a stable fair mid through AVO.
  2. Quoting Engine. Compute the convergence price: the AVO-smoothed composite, plus a gated lead when signal warrants.
  3. Oracle. Publish the fair mid onchain as a clamped executable quote.
  4. Liquidity Pools. Settle flow against the onchain quote. Onchain flow feeds signals back to the engine.
Inventory is hedged, circuit breakers limit exposure during abnormal market conditions, and every trade feeds back into the engine through markout analysis, improving future forecasts.
Capital turnover is daily volume divided by the capital required to quote it. Bolt’s architecture decouples execution quality from how much capital sits in the pool, so a smaller capital commitment produces outsized volume: one dollar recycled many times a day. Capital turnover rates of up to 100x have been observed.

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Integration

Who can integrate with Bolt?

Bolt supports six primary audiences: foundations, asset issuers, arb traders, DeFi protocols, aggregators and wallets, and LPs and market makers. Each interacts with Bolt differently. Arb traders and aggregators can start immediately using onchain data. Foundations, asset issuers, and market makers work through a partnership discussion with the team.
Query Bolt’s onchain quote for any supported pair. When the convergence price beats other venues for a given trade, route the flow to the Execution Rail. Settlement is atomic, in a single transaction, at the committed price.
Yes. The convergence price is public, clamped, and verifiable onchain. Lending protocols, perpetuals, vaults, and liquidation engines can use it for collateral valuation, liquidation triggers, funding rates, or rebalancing thresholds. Protocols can also route settlement (liquidations, rebalances) through the Execution Rail.
Bolt’s LP program is being expanded. Specific fee rates and deposit terms are being finalized. Contact the team for current details.

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Multi-chain and expansion

Is Bolt only on Sui?

Bolt is live on Sui today with Cetus, FlowX, Aftermath, and 85+ downstream apps. Multi-chain expansion across EVM and SVM ecosystems is on the roadmap.
Sui’s object-centric model, parallel execution, and sub-second finality make it an ideal environment to prove onchain synchronization at speed and low cost. The Sui footprint is the evidence base that de-risks every subsequent chain.
Bolt synchronizes native ecosystem tokens, stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and BTC products and wrapped assets. The same engine applies to any asset that trades across multiple venues with inconsistent pricing.

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Competitive distinctions

How is Bolt different from CEX-DEX searchers?

CEX-DEX searchers extract one divergence at a time through offchain stacks that rely on exclusive block-builder deals. Bolt is onchain-native and forecasts convergence continuously. No gatekeeper dependency.
Prop-AMMs reprice within a single pool using offchain oracles. Bolt coordinates inventory and hedging across venues; a single pool cannot synchronize the market.
RFQ venues sign a quote for a single fill. Bolt produces a synchronized, executable price across the market, not a one-off signed quote.
Traditional finance has decades of shared market infrastructure, including consolidated price feeds, national market system rules, and centralized matching venues that naturally keep prices aligned. Onchain markets evolved differently: hundreds of DEXs, multiple chains, fragmented liquidity, and independent price discovery with no shared synchronization layer. Bolt was built to solve that missing piece by publishing one executable convergence price that every integrated venue can settle against.
The moat is the convergence dataset and the , which are accumulated, not purchased. Capital alone cannot shortcut the loop. Bolt scales through price coverage, not balance sheet.
Bolt is more than a pricing algorithm. The architecture combines a Convergence Engine, an Execution Rail, and a convergence dataset that grows with every synchronized trade. More routed volume produces more convergence data, which sharpens future forecasts and attracts additional flow. That feedback loop compounds over time. A competitor can copy components, but they cannot instantly replicate the market coverage, execution history, and accumulated convergence data that make the system progressively smarter.
Bolt publishes a public, executable convergence price rather than relying on privileged execution paths.
The spread Bolt captures is value already leaking offchain to searchers, stale quotes, and adverse selection. Bolt captures it onchain and turns it into better execution for everyone: tighter fills, less adverse selection, usable markets. Traditional searchers extract value from fragmentation. Bolt captures that same value inside the synchronization layer, returning it to users through tighter execution and healthier markets.

What is Bolt?

The synchronization layer: what it is, what it is not, and who it serves.

Talk to the Team

Integration strategy, deployment support, and partnership.