Step Finance

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Step Finance (STEP) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2021and operates on the Solana platform. Step Finance has a current supply of 609,605,924.57486869 with 221,408,395.17416906 in circulation. The last known price of Step Finance is 0.08556601 USD and is down -3.84 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 39 active market(s) with $142,972.58 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://step.finance/.

## What Is Raydium?

[Raydium](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/raydium/) is a [Solana](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/solana/)-based [decentralized exchange](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-exchange-dex) (DEX) with an [automated market maker](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/automated-market-maker-amm) (AMM) model. Users can [swap](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/token-swap), trade, and become [liquidity providers](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity-provider-tokens-lp-tokens). The exchange provides liquidity to [Serum](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/serum/), another Solana-based exchange with a central [order book](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/order-book) model. Therefore, Raydium users can access the order flow and liquidity of Serum and vice versa. Furthermore, the platform claims to offer the best price swap feature that automatically determines whether a token swap is cheaper if routed through the [liquidity pool](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity-pool) or the Serum order book. 

Users can also add liquidity and receive LP tokens, which represent a proportional share of the pooled assets. Every time a token swap is performed, LP token holders receive 0.22% of the trade volume. It is distributed according to the proportion of liquidity provided to the pool. There is also an option to create permissionless pools, which will also place orders on the Serum order book. This way, users can add any token pairs they wish and earn a share of the trading fees. 

The native [RAY](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/raydium/) token can be staked to earn additional tokens. It also serves as a [governance token](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/governance-token) that can be used to vote on improvement proposals and fee structures on the exchange.  


## Who Are the Raydium Founders?

AlphaRay leads overall strategy, operations, product direction and business development for Raydium. With a background in algorithmic trading in commodities, Alpha transitioned to market making and liquidity providing for cryptocurrency in 2017 and hasn't looked back. After diving into DeFi in the summer of 2020, Alpha saw a market need for an order book AMM to aggregate liquidity, and with the release of Serum, pulled together a team of experienced trading developers to tackle the problem head on.
XRay is Raydium's Chief of Technology and Dev Team leader. X has 8 years of experience as a trading and low latency systems architect for both traditional and crypto markets. X designs all of Raydium’s systems and infrastructure as needed.
GammaRay heads up marketing and communications while also playing a key role in strategy and product direction. Gamma spent a large part of his career at a leading data analytics and market research firm, working on both client engagements and corporate marketing. Prior to Raydium, Gamma's focus within cryptocurrency has been technical analysis and discretionary trading.

## When Did Raydium Launch?

Raydium launched on February 21, 2022. 


## Where Is Raydium Located?

The exchange does not list its location on its Crunchbase profile. 


## Raydium Restricted Countries

The Raydium Protocol is not available to residents of Belarus, The Central African Republic, The Democratic Republic of Congo, North Korea, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, the US, Yemen, Zimbabwe and any other jurisdiction in which accessing or using the protocol is prohibited.


## Raydium Supported Coins List 

Raydium supports all Solana-based SPL tokens. 


## How Much Are Raydium Fees?

At the time of writing, token swaps incur a 0.25% trading fee, with 0.22% returned to the liquidity pools as a fee reward and 0.03% distributed to the staking pool.


## Is It Possible To Use Leverage or Margin Trade on Raydium?

Raydium does not offer [leverage](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/leverage) or [margin trading](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/margin-trading).

Raydium

## What Is Orca?

Orca touts itself as the "easiest, fastest, and most user-friendly cryptocurrency exchange on the Solana blockchain." Being one of the first automated [market makers](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-automated-market-makers) (AMM) launched on [Solana](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/solana), the decentralized exchange (DEX) maintains its own [liquidity pools](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity-pool). It allows users to swap assets, participate in yield farming, and provide liquidity.

The platform leverages Solana’s quick transactions and low fees. On one hand, users can perform low-fee token trades. On the other, they can provide [concentrated liquidity](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/concentrated-liquidity) to the platform to earn a share of trading fees.

### Who Are the Founders of Orca?

Orca was co-founded by Grace Kwan and Yutaro Mori. Kwan, aka "Ori," is the UX designer. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science before working as a software engineer at Coursera and a designer at IDEO.

Yutaro is the brain behind Orca's core AMM. He has been active in the crypto space since 2017 at the Ethereum Foundation. He worked on the Eth2 Go client and Layer 2 solutions before making a foray into Solana.

### When Was Orca Launched?

The project launched in February 2021 without external funding. In September 2021, the [total value locked](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/total-value-locked-tvl) (TVL) on the protocol had exceeded $300 million, while its trade volume exceeded $700 million.

### Where Is Orca Located?

The company is located in New York, United States.

### Orca Restricted Countries

Although Orca’s "Terms of Use Agreement" did not explicitly name any country as restricted, the company advised users in areas prohibited by the applicable law to desist from using its platform.

### What Coins Are Supported on Orca?

The DEX supports over 200 markets, with the most popular trading pairs being SOL/USDC, SOL/STSOL, and SOL/MSOL.

### How Much Are Orca Fees?

Trading fees vary depending on the route the AMM uses. The fee structure on the platform is as follows: stable whirlpool – 0.01%, whirlpool – 0.2%, stable pool – 0.07%, and pool – 0.3%. A "double-hop trade" such as SOL to USDT to ETH would pay 0.3% to trade SOL to USDT and another 0.3% to trade USDT to ETH.

### Is it Possible To Use Leverage or Margin Trading on Orca?

The decentralized trading platform does not support margin trading.

Orca

Bit2Me is Spain's largest and most prominent digital assets company that has been fully compliant since 2015, being the first crypto firm in the world granted crypto brokerage & custody registration from the Bank of Spain. The company and its founders hold a longstanding and healthy relationship with the Spanish Government, IBEX35 institutions, CNMV, and Bank of Spain as the country’s only prominent crypto firm domiciled in Spain since inception. 

With Bit2me Pro (the exchange), you can deposit funds with instant SEPA bank transfer, VISA/Mastercard card, cryptocurrencies and cash. You have phone support in multiple languages like: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, German.

Bit2me’s clean regulatory record since 2015 and the fact that they are domiciled in the EU have positioned the company well for large institutions to integrate their brokerage and custody infrastructure and further increase revenue in their education products and institutional clients.

Our competitors also offer a full crypto digital suite. However, none of them focus on our niche demographic wherein we provide customer care, telephone support, and customer success account managers for small accounts in native Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Our main focus has always been Southern Europe and Latin America. In fact, half of
our 3 million alumni in our Bit2Me Academy this year are from LATAM, and 80% of our 450K verfified users are residents of iberia peninsula and Italy.

Bit2Me

## What Is Kraken?

Kraken is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange where users can buy, sell and trade various assets with relatively low commissions. Clients can also earn rewards through coin staking. The exchange has a leading level euro volume and liquidity and allows users to trade over 100 crypto assets and 7 fiat currencies, including USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF and AUD, on-the-go with a web platform and mobile apps.

Founded in 2011, it was one of the first few crypto exchanges offering spot trading, derivatives and index products. Today, the company offers numerous products and services, including but not limited to: spot trading, margin trading, futures, indices, stakings, OTC and an upcoming non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. The exchange serves over 8 million traders and institutional clients, and is backed by Digital Currency Group, Blockchain Capital, Tribe Capital, Hummingbird Ventures and more.


## Who Are the Kraken Founders?

The centralized exchange is owned by Payward Inc., founded by its CEO, crypto pioneer Jesse Powell.

Powell has been working with digital currencies since 2001. He graduated from California State University with a degree in Philosophy with a concentration in Ethics & Law, founded the Verge Gallery and Studio Project, created Internet Ventures & Holdings.


## When Did Kraken Launch?

Kraken was founded in 2011 and launched in September 2013, offering Bitcoin, Litecoin and euro-denominated trades initially.


## Where Is Kraken Located?

The company is based in San Francisco, California.


## Kraken Restricted Countries

Kraken is available to all U.S. residents, except those living in New York and Washington. However, Kraken Futures are not available to all U.S. residents. Currently, the platform serves millions of customers in approximately 200 countries.

The company has several restrictions for the following countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Eritrea, Congo-Kinshasa, Guinea-Bissau, Cuba, Lebanon, Iran, Mali, Iraq, Namibia, Libya, Somalia, North Korea, South Sudan, Syria, Sudan, Tajikistan and Yemen.


## What Coins Are Supported on Kraken?

More than 120 coins are supported on the platform, including [BTC](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/), [ETH](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/), [LTC](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/), [XRP](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xrp/), [ETC](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum-classic/), [ZEC](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/), [USDT](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/) and more.


## How Much Are Kraken Fees?

Fees on the platform vary across different products, such as Instant Buy, Kraken Pro, Stablecoins, Margin, Futures and NFT. For the basic Instant Buy service, the company charges a fee of 0.9% for stablecoins and 1.5% for other crypto assets, on top of fees charged for different payment methods. For Kraken Pro, it uses a maker-taker fee model where maker fees range 0.00% to 0.16% and taker fees range from 0.10% to 0.26%, depending on how often a user trades each 30-day period.


## Is It Possible To Use Leverage or Margin Trading on Kraken?

For advanced users, Kraken Pro offers margin and futures features. The platform offers up to 5X leverage. The maximum level of leverage depends on the currency pair.

Kraken

### What Is Gate?

Gate is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange established in 2013, ranking among the top exchanges globally. It has been operating for 12 years and serves over 23 million users. With over $10.865 billion in reserves and a reserve ratio of 128.57%, Gate stands among the leading exchanges worldwide in terms of total reserves.

The platform has recently adopted the new international domain Gate.com and unveiled a redesigned brand logo, strengthening unified brand identity and enhancing its commitment to become the "next-generation crypto exchange".

As of now, Gate stands among the top-tier platforms in 24-hour spot trading volume. It supports trading across spot, futures, and margin markets, as well as offering wealth management products.

In addition, Gate provide a wide range of wealth management products. In terms of innovative asset offering, the platform has built a token launch ecosystem consisting of four core products: Launchpool, Launchpad, Candydrop and HODLer AirDrop, along with Alpha, which enables one-click purchases of trending on-chain meme tokens.

Its web3 ecosystem now covers a range of services, including Gate Web3, Gate Pay, Gate Labs, and Gate Life. Its platform token, GT, has reached a high of $25.960 and is ranked among the top 40 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

### Who Are the Gate Founders?

In 2013, the exchange was established by Dr Han, founder and CEO. Dr Han holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Software Engineering and a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

### When Did Gate Launch?

Originally launched as Bter (or Bter.com) in 2013, the exchange was rebranded to Gate.io in late 2017 under the management of Gate Technology Inc. In 2025, Gate announced a major brand upgrade with a brand new Chinese name "Damen" (大门, meaning "The Gate").

### Where Is Gate Located?

Gate operates as a global cryptocurrency exchange with offices and teams across multiple regions.

### Gate Restricted Countries

The Restricted Locations include, but are not limited to the United States of America, Mainland China, Singapore, Canada, France, Germany, Turkey, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Malta, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Crimea Region, Spain, Luhansk, Donetsk, Netherlands, Bolivia, UK, Myanmar, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Austria, India, Indonesia, Japan, Argentina, Cambodia and so on. 

### What Coins Are Supported on Gate?

Gate supports over 3,900 cryptocurrencies, including major coins such as BTC, ETH, BIT, SOL, APE, DYDX, LTC, DOGE, AVAX, MATIC, DOT, and more.

### How Much Are Gate Fees?

Gate's trading fees are based on a tiered VIP structure, ranging from VIP 0 to VIP 16, determined by the user’s 30-day trading volume. Fees follow a maker-taker model. Gate does not charge any deposit fees for cryptocurrencies, and withdrawal fees vary depending on the specific cryptocurrency.

### Is It Possible To Use Leverage or Margin Trading on Gate?

Yes, Gate supports margin trading with leverage up to 10X. Leverage ratios range from 3X to 10X, depending on the market. The margin loan volume is tied to the selected leverage ratio, catering to both beginner and advanced traders.

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