“The Econia protocol provides a settlement engine at the base layer of Aptos DeFi, which enables other dapps to tap into a common trading venue,” said Alex, referring to decentralized applications. “With liquidity pooled into Econia’s order books, developers can focus on building out innovative products like perpetual futures, options, and margin trading markets on top of the core protocol without having to worry about matching and filling trades between counterparties.”