# Leverage Protocol - Empowering decentralized trading with leverage and control.

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## What is Leverage Protocol?

Leverage Protocol is a first decentralised perpetual exchange that leverages the zk-Snark technology and offers up to 20x leverage trading directly from wallets. The platform is secure, transparent, and efficient, with a wide range of trading pairs and fast execution speeds. It's perfect for both experienced and novice traders seeking a seamless trading experience while maintaining control over their funds.

#### Key Features:&#x20;

> 1. **Trade with high liquidity** on decentralised markets like Uniswap, PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, and others, using our Margin Trading with Liquidity on DEXs feature.
> 2. Our Risk Isolation Lending Pools feature provides **separate pools for each pair**, with distinct risk and interest rate parameters. This allows lenders to invest based on their preferred risk-reward ratio.
> 3. Our **Risk Calculation feature** utilises real-time AMM prices to calculate the collateral ratio for any available pair on a DEX.

#### Unique Selling Points:&#x20;

* Lenders can **earn higher yields** through various means, including depositing assets into lending pools, earning interest from borrowed assets, receiving LEVX rewards.
* Our platform enables traders to **borrow and leverage trade** hundreds of pairs from DEXs with a single click, making it a simple and efficient option for leveraging trades.
* We pride ourselves on our **exceptional user interface and user experience.** Our platform is designed to be intuitive and easy-to-use, allowing traders and lenders of all experience levels to seamlessly navigate the platform and take advantage of all its features.

#### Our Vision

The objective of Leverage Protocol is to establish a completely permissionless decentralized margin trading infrastructure. This allows for the creation of margin trading markets for any pair with isolated and market-adjusted risk controls without requiring permission.&#x20;

Our long-term vision is to create a decentralized crypto securities service that caters to both retail and institutional clients. This service will provide a decentralized lending, derivatives trading, and asset management infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with the global DeFi ecosystem.&#x20;

We believe that transitioning to a native financial layer on the internet is critical for humanity, as it is free, frictionless, and not subject to centralised control.

## Quick links

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[how-it-started](https://leverage-protocol.gitbook.io/leverage-protocol/protocol-overview/how-it-started)
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[our-features](https://leverage-protocol.gitbook.io/leverage-protocol/protocol-overview/our-features)
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