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Figure Heloc RISE Evolves Beyond Fastest Layer 2 into the Home for Global Markets, with RISE MarketCore and RISEx.
Ryan Moore 
RISE originally known as one of the fastest Ethereum Layer 2s is now stepping into its bigger ambition: becoming the backbone for global onchain markets. With the introduction of RISE MarketCore and RISEx, the network is evolving from raw speed into a full-blown market infrastructure designed for builders, financial products, and traders looking for deep liquidity and real market mechanics onchain.
The Orderbook Problem and the Moment RISE Solves It
Traditional markets run on orderbooks. Every stock exchange, every FX terminal, every electronic market from NASDAQ to CME. Yet crypto has mostly been stuck with AMMs because blockchains couldn’t handle the speed or synchronization required for real orderbooks until now. RISE’s tech finally brings this model fully onchain, unlocking shared liquidity and transparent, verifiable trading that’s programmable and open to anyone.
RISE MarketCore The Base Layer for Onchain Markets
RISE MarketCore is basically the toolkit for launching markets directly on RISE’s high-speed L2. It provides the native orderbook primitives, risk engines, deep-liquidity rails, and APIs at the protocol level. That means builders don’t need to assemble infrastructure they can just plug into it. Launch a perpetuals market? A spot market? A new trading pair for your token? Done and all fully onchain.
RISEx Where It All Comes Together for Traders
RISEx is the flagship exchange on RISE. Think of it as the “first customer” of MarketCore a high-performance perpetuals DEX that feels like a CEX in execution but stays completely transparent and onchain. Every order, every funding update, every settlement all verifiable, all instant, all synchronous.
“RISE was never just about building a faster blockchain. It’s about enabling a new market structure for the internet,” said Sam Battenally, CEO of RISE. “With RISE MarketCore and RISEx, we’re turning the chain itself into the global home for onchain markets, a programmable foundation where liquidity, risk, and innovation converge onchain.”
Where RISE Goes Next
RISEx enters closed mainnet this quarter and will open publicly in early 2026. After that, RISE MarketCore becomes fully permissionless meaning anyone can launch perpetuals, spot markets, or even whole exchanges on RISE. Looking ahead, the platform will expand into options, structured products, prediction markets, and new market types that simply haven’t been possible onchain before.
RISE started as a speed breakthrough but it’s now shaping up to become something bigger: a financial operating system for global market infrastructure running natively onchain.
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