Building self-custodial trading at scale with Dexari

The result: in their first month, Dexari onboarded over 1,600 active traders who executed more than $1.375 billion in trading volume, proving that high-performance, self-custodial trading can be fast, globally accessible, and mobile-first.

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Challenge: Mobile-first access to Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid is one of the most performant onchain exchanges available, but it has no native mobile application. Dexari saw the opportunity to build that interface, bringing the speed and depth of Hyperliquid to users on their phones.

But this challenge presented several problems:

1. Depositing into Hyperliquid is complex: users hold assets across multiple chains, and moving them into Hyperliquid typically requires bridging into Arbitrum and then depositing directly into Hyperliquid, which is a multi-step process that doesn't belong in a mobile experience.
2. No unified balance: users couldn't trade with their full portfolio. Funds fragmented across chains couldn't be combined into a single tradable balance, limiting their ability to trade.
3. Blockchain complexity blocks onboarding: gas tokens and network-specific steps create friction, limiting the potential customers Dexari could acquire.
4. Dexari also needed to move fast: they needed a solution that could get them into production quickly, without months of infrastructure work to capture this market opportunity.

Dexari needed infrastructure that would abstract away blockchain complexity, allowing users to deposit from wherever their funds exist, trade with a single unified balance, and start trading on Hyperliquid in seconds. That became the foundation for their integration with OneBalance.

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Solution: OneBalance for a unified, self-custodial trading experience

With OneBalance, Dexari removed blockchain complexity from the user experience entirely. In practice, this meant:

1. One balance across networks: USDC/USDT deposited on different networks is presented as a single tradable balance.
2. Fund once, trade immediately: deposits from supported networks are available to trade without manual bridging steps.
3. Fees handled: Gas fees are paid using the asset being traded, so users never need to hold separate native gas tokens.CEX-like UX, self-custodial: fast, mobile-native experience while users retain control of their funds.
4. Ship faster, without rebuilding infrastructure: By abstracting EIP-7702 account initialization and onchain execution complexity, OneBalance allowed Dexari to go from integration to production in less than two weeks, without rebuilding core infrastructure from scratch.

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Results: From zero to $1.375B in trading volume

Within their first month of launch, Dexari demonstrated that high-performance self-custodial trading can be both simple and globally accessible:

• $1.375B in trading volume executed by users in month one.
• 1,600+ active traders onboarded at launch.
• Live in production in under 2 weeks, with OneBalance handling routing, execution, and settlement behind the scenes.
• Unified balances across Arbitrum, Base, BNB, and more, with further chain support in development.

The biggest unlock came from removing the barriers that caused users to drop off before they even placed a trade. By abstracting the onboarding complexity into a centralized exchange-like experience, while remaining fully non-custodial, Dexari was able to:

1. Turn first deposits into first trades: reducing steps and failure points meant users who deposited were far more likely to follow through and trade.
2. Deliver a mobile-native UX that competes with CEXs: the unified balance experience enabled users to act on opportunities instantly, without blockchain-specific knowledge.
3. Move faster across the entire roadmap: with OneBalance handling cross-chain execution and chain abstraction, so the Dexari team can focus entirely on product and market expansion.

Go live in weeks, not months

OneBalance is proud to support Dexari in making self-custodial crypto trading globally accessible. Their launch proved that a mobile-first, self-custodial trading product can match the performance of centralized exchanges, and that the key to making it work isn't just great UI. It's removing the blockchain complexity underneath.

Under the hood, OneBalance’ DvP-like model provides high-throughput execution and predictable settlement onchain, so teams can deliver complex trading products without rebuilding the core infrastructure layers. If you’re building a trading app and need reliability at scale, OneBalance helps remove operational complexity so you can focus on product and distribution.