What is ClearPortX
ClearPortX is a DeFi protocol built natively on Canton Network. It provides three interlocking products — an exchange, a money market, and a staking module — designed to behave as a single, composable financial surface rather than three isolated apps.
This page is the elevator pitch. For a deeper architectural walkthrough, read Core concepts · DLMM explained.
The three products
Section titled “The three products”DLMM Exchange
Concentrated liquidity in discrete price bins. Capital efficiency that can exceed traditional AMMs by two orders of magnitude. Volatility-adjusted fees that reward LPs for providing depth during turbulence.
Money markets
Overcollateralized supply-and-borrow markets with a twist: your DLMM liquidity positions are themselves valid collateral. Earn swap fees and borrow against the same capital in one position.
CPX staking
Stake CPX, receive sCPX, earn a share of every swap fee and every loan interest payment across the protocol. Governance rights and revenue share in the same token.
DLMM Exchange is Live on Canton DevNet with an active CC/cBTC pool. Money markets and CPX staking are in active development — see the roadmap for phase milestones.
Why three products, not one
Section titled “Why three products, not one”A DEX alone is a silo. A lending market alone is a silo. Staking alone is a silo. The real value of on-chain finance only appears when these primitives compose: when the fees from a swap can be borrowed against, when the borrowed capital can be re-deposited into the same pool, when the resulting position can be staked into a governance module that redistributes fees back to the participant.
This pattern is called a yield loop, and it is structurally impossible on a pure order-book venue. It requires pooled liquidity, programmable collateral, and a unified accounting layer — which is exactly what ClearPortX is built to provide.
On other chains, this composition already exists. Uniswap, Aave and Lido on Ethereum together route tens of billions of dollars in daily composable value. On Canton, until now, the three building blocks did not sit under one roof. ClearPortX is that roof.
Who it is for
Section titled “Who it is for”ClearPortX is designed for three user profiles simultaneously:
- Traders who need tight spreads on Canton-native pairs and atomic settlement without bridge risk.
- Liquidity providers who want to earn real fees on real volume, choose their risk exposure through concentrated ranges, and use their positions as productive collateral.
- Institutions who need privacy-preserving execution, verifiable compliance, and the confidence that the same network hosts their counterparties.
We do not treat these profiles as mutually exclusive. A well-designed protocol serves all three with the same contracts, the same oracles, and the same governance.
What we deliberately do not do
Section titled “What we deliberately do not do”Some things are outside our scope. We list them here for honesty and to prevent confusion:
- We do not operate a bridge. Assets arrive on Canton through specialized providers — BitSafe for cBTC, LayerZero for cross-chain messaging, Circle for USDC. We integrate with these providers, we do not replace them.
- We do not run a custodial order book. Order-book execution for blue-chip tokenized securities is a different product with different trade-offs. Canton is big enough for both models to coexist, and we do not try to be everything.
- We do not operate centralized market making. All liquidity on ClearPortX is provided by users through transparent DLMM positions. We do not maintain a proprietary trading desk or inventory book.
The next step
Section titled “The next step”The most important single concept in ClearPortX is the Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker. Everything else — money markets, staking, routing, fees — is built on top of it. If you read only one other page, read DLMM explained.