What Is Raydium (RAY)? All Information About RAY Token

In this paper, we would like to introduce Raydium – the first AMM built on Solana. We’ll be covering the following topics:

• What is Raydium (RAY)? What are Raydium (RAY) features?
• Information about RAY Tokenomic and How to buy, store RAY tokens?
• Roadmap & Team members, Investors, and Strategic partners
• Finanlly, Is RAY a good investment?

Let’s find out together!

What is Raydium?

Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) and liquidity provider built on the Solana blockchain for the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX). Raydium has an advantage as an AMM within Serum and will be an integral part of bringing new and existing projects and protocols into the ecosystem. 

Its main features are as follows:

• Orderbook: Through the power of Serum, Raydium brings Orderbooks to AMMs. Leveraging liquidity provided by Serum, Raydium provides users options to place Limit Order, Market Order, etc.
• Raydium DEX: Similar to other AMMs, Raydium allows market participants to make transactions using liquidity provided by its own pools. It aims to serve trading activities between less traded assets. This feature allows users to swap their tokens without the need of orderbooks while enjoying cheap gas and low trading fees.
• Pool: Similar to other AMMs, Liquidity providers will be able to earn rewards for contributing liquidity. Key pools will be incentivized with RAY tokens. Recently, Raydium has introduced permissionless pools, enabling anyone to have the ability to create tradable AMM pools. With that being said, the permissionless pool launch will create extremely solid liquidity for Raydium’s community.
• Farm: Raydium farms are liquidity pools that allow liquidity providers to generate RAY tokens as farming rewards in addition to the trading fees contributed to the pool.
• Staking: If you’re holding RAY tokens, staking is an easy way to earn additional RAY.
• AcceleRaytor: AcceleRaytor serves as a launchpad for the latest Solana projects to raise capital and drive initial liquidity.

Why is Raydium different? 

Raydium offers a few key advantages:

• Faster and cheaper: Raydium leverages the efficiency of the Solana blockchain to achieve faster transactions and much lower gas fees.
• Access to the ecosystem-wide liquidity from Serum: Other AMM DEXs and DeFi protocols are only able to access liquidity within their own pools and have no access to a central order book, meanwhile Raydium is an AMM built for the Serum DEX, meaning that Raydium allows access to the order flow and solid liquidity of the entire Serum ecosystem. It solves the problem of high slippage and liquidity shortage experienced in big transactions. Market participants now have the ability to express the number of tokens they are willing to trade at any price.

Detailed information about RAY token

RAY Price Today

Users can check RAY price on Coin98 Markets.

Coin98 Markets is a price-tracking website for crypto assets in the rapidly growing cryptocurrency space. More specifically, you can view the detailed information of a Token Metric from any project, as well as access the home page or the community page of a project, or filter the coins/tokens by Market Cap, Trading Volume, etc.

Key metrics

• Key Metrics RAY
• Token Name: RAY Token.
• Ticker: RAY.
• Blockchain: Solana.
• Token Standard: SPL.
• Contract: 4k3Dyjzvzp8eMZWUXbBCjEvwSkkk59S5iCNLY3QrkX6R
• Token type: Utility, Governance.
• Circulating Supply: 59,004,299.
• Total Supply and Max Supply: 555,000,000.

RAY Token Allocation

Allocation	Percentage	Amount (RAY)
Mining Reserve	34%	188,700,000
Partnership & Ecosystem	30%	166,500,000
Team	20%	111,000,000
Liquidity	8%	44,400,000
Community & Seed funding	6%	33,300,000
Advisors	2%	11,100,000
Total	100%	555,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAY Token release schedule

Mining Reserve	Updating…
Partnership & Ecosystem	Updating…
Team	Locked with a 1 year cliff and unlocked linearly after that for the following 24 months
Liquidity	Updating…
Community & Seed funding	Locked with a 1 year cliff and unlocked linearly after that for the following 24 months
Advisors	Locked with a 1 year cliff and unlocked linearly after that for the following 24 months

 

RAY Token Sale

There are only few details about the seed round and private round. We will keep you up-to-date if any further details are released by the team.

Public sale: RAY Token launched a Community Pool on Bonfida.

RAY Token use cases

The RAY token has the following utilities:

• Staking: RAY Holders will be able to stake RAY tokens to generate additional yield.
• Limited Governance: RAY Holders are allowed to participate and vote on community proposals and amendments.

How to store RAY 

You can store, send, receive RAY Tokens on Coin98 Wallet with a few single steps. The guides on how to make transactions with RAY on Coin98 Wallet are as follows.

Step 1: Open Coin98 Wallet & click Receive on the home screen.

Step 2: Search RAY Token.

Step 3: Click on the correct result, copy the wallet address and send RAY to this address.

How to buy RAY

You can use Coin98 Exchange to swap other tokens for RAY following these simple steps on: exchange.coin98.com

Step 1: Connect Coin98 Extension Wallet.

Step 2: Choose coins/tokens for trading:

• Choose Coin98 Exchange Solana.
• Search RAY.

Step 3: Adjust the amount you want to swap.

Step 4: Adjust the gas fee, then click Swap.

Beside Coin98 Exchange, you can also buy RAY Token on other Exchange such as: Serum, FTX,…

Roadmap & Updates

Q4 2020	Ideation and project scope Development of the protocol and iteration on testnet
Q1 2021	Development of liquidity pools and staking completed, mainnet launched Website and platform launched Development of cross-chain swap
Q2 2021	Research on additional market making models and features in partnership with other protocols
Q3 2021	Leverage of external oracles for improved market making Governance model ideation in collaboration with partners

 

Is Raydium (RAY) a good investment?

Below are some highlights for your consideration:

• AMM DEX Raydium: The creation of Permissionless Pools allows any tokens to be listed and traded on Raydium (similar to Uniswap) regardless of their liquidity level.
• Order-book DEX Raydium: Unlike other AMMs, Raydium utilizes Order-Book Mechanisms. It is a breakthrough as Raydium can now support/accommodate big-size transactions using the order-book liquidity, and resolve the regularly-faced issues that most AMMs have currently.
• The following pictures show Solana TVL and Raydium Dominance. Raydium currently ranks the 1st position regarding TVL on Solana blockchain and its TVL has been continuously rising and reached the all-time-high value before the Bitcoin crash in June.

Also, RAY holders can compare the project with similar projects such as Uniswap V2, Pancakeswap, etc. to have some price forecasts.

Team, Investors, and Strategic partners

Team members

AlphaRay: Leads overall strategy, operations, product direction and business development for Raydium. With a background in algorithmic trading in commodities, Alpha started market making and liquidity providing for cryptocurrency in 2017.

XRay: Raydium’s Chief of Technology and Dev Team leader. X has 8 years of experience as a trading systems architect for both traditional and crypto markets. X designs all of Raydium’s systems and infrastructure as needed.

GammaRay: GammaRay leads marketing and communications while also playing a key role in strategy and product direction. Gamma spent a large part of his career at a leading data analytics and market research firm. Prior to Raydium, Gamma’s focus within cryptocurrency has been technical analysis and discretionary trading.

StingRay: An experienced operating system and trading developer. StingRay shifted from an autonomous car driving company to become a senior developer who is accountable for Raydium’s on-chain order book.

RayZor: RayZor mined his first BTC in 2012, his first ETH in 2015 and his first SUSHI since day one. He’s written many smart contracts on Ethereum as well as on BSC. With a degree in systems security engineering and significant experience working as a white hat hacker, RayZor ensures all the capital in Raydium is secured.

Investors

Updating…

Strategic partners

ChainSwap: A cross-chain asset bridge & application hub for smart chains.

Wootrade: A layer one trading infrastructure complete with the ability to integrate into any exchange, trading desk, wallet, dApp, or other trading-related platform.

Serum: A decentralized exchange (DEX) and ecosystem built on Solana that brings unprecedented speed and low transaction costs to decentralized finance.

Similar projects

• Orca (ORCA): A pure AMM DEX on Solana which has its own liquidity pools.
• Quickswap (QUICK): A permissionless decentralized exchange (DEX) based on Ethereum, powered by Polygon Network’s Layer 2 scalability infrastructure. 
• Uniswap (UNI): One of the first fully decentralized exchanges (DEX) built in 2018 on top of the Ethereum blockchain.
• Pancakeswap (CAKE): A decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows users to securely trade a massive variety of BEP-20 tokens quickly and cheaply without relying on centralized services or losing control over their private keys.