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Bolt

Bolt makes assets tradable onchain at the market’s price, not the pool’s, leaving far less capital committed to liquidity.We derive price from the venues driving global price discovery, make it executable onchain, and settle each trade atomically against pool inventory.
Bolt separates price formation from local pool depth.The executable onchain price is derived from the broader market. Local liquidity provides the capacity for trades to execute and settle.That allows pricing and execution capacity to be managed separately instead of asking the same pool to do both jobs.
Bolt is execution infrastructure that can sit inside the venues, routers, wallets, and protocols users already interact with.Users don’t need to visit a separate Bolt frontend for a trade to execute through Bolt.
Bolt can serve asset issuers and foundations that need markets around their assets, DeFi protocols that depend on reliable execution, and aggregators or wallets that want another executable route.The value differs by use case. See Asset Issuers & Foundations, DeFi Protocols, or Aggregators & Wallets.

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Pricing and execution

Bolt combines live market data from the venues driving broader price discovery into a cross-venue market composite.The resulting price is made executable onchain rather than being derived from the state of the local liquidity pool.
The flow has four parts:
  1. Bolt reads broader market data offchain.
  2. The Pricing Engine forms the executable bid and ask.
  3. The quote is published onchain.
  4. Pool and router contracts check available inventory and settle the swap atomically.
See How Bolt Works for the full flow.
Price formation does not depend on local pool depth.Execution capacity does. Available inventory, trade direction, and the limits applicable to a quote determine how much can execute at that moment.
Capacity is determined per market and per direction based on the inventory available and the limits applicable to the quote.For a specific asset or required trade size, talk to the team and we can scope the deployment directly.
The swap only executes within the capacity available for that quote.If the required inventory is not available, the trade is not approved for execution.
Bolt continuously updates its onchain quotes as broader market conditions change.Newly posted prices are subject to contract-enforced publication bounds, and the system can halt publication under defined market conditions.
Swap execution and settlement happen atomically in a single transaction.Market-data processing and quote formation happen before the swap and are not part of that transaction.

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Markets and assets

Bolt is live on Sui today. The architecture is designed to extend beyond it.Bolt is integrated with Sui’s leading aggregators, including Cetus, FlowX, and Aftermath, and powers execution across 85+ downstream applications.
SUI/USDC is live on Sui Mainnet today.New markets are added through deployment rather than through an open listing process.
Bolt is designed to extend executable onchain pricing across a broad range of assets.That includes major crypto assets, wrapped assets, stablecoins, long-tail markets, newly launched assets, and tokenized real-world assets.The common thread is simple: assets that should be able to trade onchain without first requiring a deep local pool around them.
Reliable price discovery can exist before deep liquidity develops on a particular chain or venue.Bolt lets that broader market price become executable onchain while local liquidity is deployed around the execution capacity the market actually needs.

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Integration

Aggregators, wallets, protocols, and venues can integrate Bolt as an execution route.Start with the 5-Minute Integration.
An integrator can request a Bolt quote offchain and compare it with other routes before submitting a transaction.If its routing logic selects Bolt, the trade is then submitted for atomic execution and settlement.See Offchain Quoting.
Yes.The 5-Minute Integration walks through installing the SDK, requesting a quote, and executing a live swap.
Yes.Bolt can be added as another executable path inside the routing or product infrastructure you already operate.

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Traction

Bolt is live with one market, SUI/USDC.Current approved evidence includes:
  • #4 SUI/USDC venue rank
  • 1 in 50 transactions on Sui
  • 30%+ of SUI/USDC arbitrage volume
  • Over 600,000 client trades
  • 85+ apps and bots using Bolt regularly
See Where to Trade for the current live market and integrations.
Capital Turnover measures how intensively deployed onchain liquidity is used for client execution.It is calculated as client trading volume divided by the value of the onchain liquidity supporting that volume.See Capital Efficiency for the methodology and current reading.

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Liquidity and deployment

Bolt’s architecture supports third-party liquidity provision.Professional liquidity providers interested in supporting Bolt markets can talk to the team about current opportunities.
Capacity is scoped per market based on the inventory available, trade direction, quote limits, and the execution the deployment is intended to support.For a specific asset or required size, contact us.
Bolt’s architecture is designed independently of any single settlement network.Bolt is live on Sui today.

How Bolt Works

Follow the path from market data to atomic settlement.

Glossary

Definitions for the terms used throughout these docs.

Talk to the team

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