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Axiom

axiom.trade

Axiom is an all-in-one DeFi trading platform for memecoins, perpetuals, on-chain assets, and yield.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
6 active roles
Jobs checked 3d ago
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About

Axiom builds an all-in-one on-chain trading platform for decentralized-finance users, supporting memecoins, perpetuals, and yield. Its differentiation is combining multiple DeFi trading and earning capabilities in one application rather than focusing on a single asset or product.

Market

Axiom competes in the on-chain crypto and DeFi trading-terminal market, with a strong Solana focus and products spanning memecoins, perpetuals, and yield. Its positioning is a unified, high-speed web trading experience that combines analytics, token discovery, wallet tracking, and non-custodial wallet infrastructure, differentiating it from competing Solana terminals through breadth of functionality and an effort to abstract away multi-chain complexity.

Target Customers

Axiom primarily targets individual, active crypto traders—especially Solana memecoin traders and high-volume market participants—who value speed, token discovery, wallet tracking, and trading control. It also serves broader DeFi users seeking a unified on-chain trading application rather than a company-size-specific enterprise buyer.

At a Glance

Problem

Crypto trading is fragmented across too many protocols and chains. Users often need separate accounts or apps for each asset, then must bridge funds, swap between tokens, and manage positions across several interfaces. That creates operational friction, slower execution, more opportunities for mistakes, and a real economic cost for active traders who can miss fast-moving opportunities while moving liquidity between venues.

The clearest killer use case is active Solana memecoin trading, where token discovery and execution speed matter. Axiom addresses the need to find emerging tokens, monitor influential wallets and social activity, and trade quickly without stitching together separate discovery, analytics, wallet-tracking, and execution tools.

Product / Service

Axiom is a web-based DeFi trading platform that abstracts away much of the underlying blockchain complexity. Its original proposition was to let users trade assets across chains through one account rather than separately bridge, swap, and manage funds across multiple applications. Its current offering includes memecoin trading, perpetuals, yield products, a non-custodial wallet, and social and wallet-tracking tools.

The platform combines high-speed on-chain execution with features such as limit orders, token discovery, X/Twitter monitoring, wallet tracking, and MEV protection. It also integrates perpetual trading through Hyperliquid and advertises yield of up to 15% APY on assets. The benefit is a single, more streamlined interface for discovering, executing, and managing decentralized trades while retaining non-custodial control of the wallet.

Market

Axiom competes in decentralized-finance trading infrastructure, particularly the Solana-focused memecoin and on-chain trading-terminal market, while extending into perpetuals and yield. Its direct alternatives include other fast crypto terminals and trading bots such as GMGN, Trojan, BullX, and Photon; the competitive battleground is execution speed, discovery and analytics, breadth of markets, fees, and the quality of the trading workflow.

Axiom is clearly not pre-revenue. DefiLlama reports $1.184 billion of DEX volume over the prior 30 days, $15.49 million in fees, and annualized figures of $404.5 million in fees and $238.12 million in revenue. YC’s company profile also reports that Axiom has reached 10M MRR and a separate “5M monthly” metric, though the available profile text does not identify what the latter measures. Together, these figures indicate substantial commercial traction, although exact totals depend on the reporting period and metric definitions.

Founders & Leadership

Henry ZhangFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Preston EllisFounder
Co-Founder & CTO

Funding History

2025-03
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-09-09product_launch
Axiom Trade adds Base blockchain support

Axiom Trade added Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 network, to its trading terminal. The launch includes first-block tracking for Clanker, Zora, Bankr, and Flaunch tokens, tokenized-stock listings from o1, sub-second trade confirmations through Flashblocks, and immediate availability of wallet tracking, Callouts, and rewards.

2026-09-03product_launch
Axiom Trade launches BNB V2 with $500K rewards campaign

Axiom Trade announced BNB V2 on September 3, including a $500,000 rewards campaign. The launch expands the platform’s on-chain trading offering under the Axiom brand.

2025-11-28partnership
Axiom's DeFi Gateway: How MoonPay, Topper and Onramper Feed an Unlicensed Trading Hub

FinTelegram reported that Axiom integrated third-party on-ramps including MoonPay, Topper, and Coinbase through the Onramper aggregator. This is third-party investigative coverage, not an official Axiom announcement.

2025-11-25funding
Axiom funding, news & analysis

Sacra reported that Axiom raised a $500,000 pre-seed round led by Y Combinator in March 2025 and described it as the company’s only disclosed funding round at the time of its analysis.

Active Roles

6
Austin/Engineering/63d ago
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Austin, TX, US/Engineering/79d ago

Business Model

Axiom appears to monetize primarily through fees generated by trading activity across its DeFi products. Its reported revenue and fee generation, together with monthly recurring revenue reported by Y Combinator, support a transaction-fee-based model; the platform also offers yield products and integrations.

Products

Solana memecoin and spot tradingPerpetuals tradingYield and earn productsUnified on-chain trading platform and non-custodial wallet

Tech Stack

TypeScriptRustNextJSJotaiTailwindCSSPostgreSQLuWebsocketsSolanaTurnkey wallet infrastructure

Competitors

Photon
BullX
GMGN
Trojan