We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Lotus, the native flagship decentralized exchange (DEX) on MANTRA Chain.

Lotus is purpose-built to be the default liquidity hub for the entire MANTRA ecosystem, offering secure, efficient, and permissionless trading infrastructure for both users and builders. By bringing essential DeFi primitives, such as swaps, liquidity pools, and yield generation, directly onto MANTRA, Lotus will empower builders, support new protocols, and establish the foundation for transparent, secure, and RWA-driven decentralized finance.

More than just a trading venue, Lotus is designed to fairly distribute value back to the community and strategically reinvest in MANTRA’s long-term growth.

Key Features of Lotus 

Lotus was created to provide MANTRA Chain with native, seamless, and sustainable liquidity. It operates with two AMM models; V2 (full-range) and V3 (concentrated liquidity).

Traders can benefit from smooth, low-slippage token swaps when pools have sufficient liquidity depth. Liquidity providers can gain flexibility choosing from different liquidity provision methods which have been tailored to maximize fee efficiency.

The launch of Lotus will bring several key benefits to the MANTRA ecosystem, including but not limited to; 

• Native Liquidity: Deep liquidity pools designed to support the expanding suite of MANTRA ecosystem tokens and RWA related assets 
• High speed, low cost trading: Built on MANTRA Chain’s optimized infrastructure for fast confirmations, low throughput and minimal transaction fees 
• Compliance ready frameworks: Leverages MANTRA Chain’s permissioned modules for institutions, ensuring safe access to tokenized assets and regulated market participants. 

For the community side, Lotus uses a Proof-of-Contribution (PoC) mechanism to measure, recognize, and reward meaningful participation. PoC focuses on the quality and impact of each action, whether simple social engagement or larger contributions like trading, providing liquidity, or leading initiatives.

Unlike most traditional systems, PoC emphasizes the quality and impact of each contribution. Instead of rewarding those who act the most, Lotus’ PoC rewards those who create real value, that helps the ecosystem grow, spread, and become more resilient. It is composed of two complementary subsystems:

• Impact Share: represents the long-term social influence and reputation of a user. It measures overall impact through social, onchain, and community activities, reflecting their role and credibility within the Lotus community. 
• Lotus Point: represents short-term actions and engagements, measuring your activity level across campaigns, daily tasks, and event participation.

In the coming weeks and months, Lotus will introduce new pool types, incentives, and integrations to deepen onchain liquidity and support MANTRA’s expanding roadmap - including the launch of mantraUSD, institutional RWA flows and more. 

More information on Lotus can be found here. 

Lotus is now live on MANTRA Chain.

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