Order book marketplaces dominate CeFi for a reason: they're highly efficient and responsive. However, Ethereum's scalability issues prevented the development of a decentralized on-chain order book... until now.

Hourglass boasts the first viable on-chain order book system with Minute Markets, our core atomic unit.

Bridges today rely on massive on-chain pools to provide liquidity. It's no coincidence that $2.8 billion has been hacked from bridges to date: pools are a mouthwatering honeypot for hackers.

So, how did we improve on pools? We eliminated them entirely. Our on-chain order book system dramatically reduces total funds at risk. That means safer waters to sail in for the entire DeFi ecosystem.

Hourglass is designed as a plug-and-play liquidity solution for any EVM chain. By working with Hourglass, stablecoins and blockchain protocols alike can tap into a global liquidity layer and focus on innovating where they're most passionate.