Avantis is an onchain perpetuals DEX that brings leveraged trading in crypto and global assets—FX, metals, commodities, and indices—onto Base. Launched in 2023, it targets the fragmentation between DeFi and traditional markets by offering a single venue for high-leverage, USDC-collateralized exposure to synthetic RWAs and crypto. With a risk engine tuned for LPs and features like loss protection and positive slippage for traders, Avantis aims to be DeFi’s universal leverage layer for global macro and onchain narratives in one place.