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Decoding SynFutures, the Base Layer Aggregator
SynFutures is currently the leading derivative project in the Base protocol ecosystem. It recently announced its post-TGE roadmap, revealing that in addition to entering the derivatives space, it will also expand into the spot aggregator track in the future. In the author's opinion, this is a very bold yet highly imaginative business expansion by the team, reminiscent of the Solana ecosystem leader Jupiter.
The Rise of Jupiter
If you have used Solana, you most likely have used Jupiter. Jupiter is the first stop for most users entering the Solana ecosystem, and it can be said to be the **gateway to the Solana ecosystem**. Users can trade spot, trade contracts, purchase JLP, participate in cross-chain activities, and join Launchpad here. Those familiar with Jupiter will know that Jupiter initially only had the spot aggregator business. After the success of this business, it launched contract trading before TGE. Leveraging the impact of airdrops and JLP rewards after TGE, it helped achieve tremendous success in contract trading, becoming a giant spanning multiple tracks in today's Solana ecosystem.
So how did Jupiter achieve such great success today? A significant reason lies in its "diversification strategy," which is not limited to success in one track but rather uses its advantages, resources, brand, and traffic in the original track to horizontally expand into other businesses. Due to its significant first-mover advantage in the Solana ecosystem, it has rapidly become a leader in new fields.
SynFutures at the Core of the Base Ecosystem
From the roadmap currently announced by SynFutures, its current market position and post-TGE development strategy bear many similarities to Jupiter. Firstly, SynFutures is currently the leading derivative track project in the Base ecosystem, and Base can be said to be the hottest project in the L2 ecosystem with the most funds, traffic, and popularity. As the derivative leader SynFutures and the spot leader Aerodrome, there is no doubt that these two projects are best positioned to receive the overflow of public chain momentum, making them the reservoirs of resources in the Base ecosystem. The rapid growth of SynFutures in the Base ecosystem and its importance to the Base ecosystem can also be seen from the data after SynFutures launched on Base:
· Base was launched on July 1st, and its trading volume exceeded $1 billion just 10 days after launch
· The cumulative trading volume is close to $35 billion, with a daily average volume of $230 million
· Q3 trading volume accounts for nearly 50% of the Base network
· The trading volume in the past 24 hours accounts for 72% of the Base network, six times that of the second-place
Becoming the Super App of the Base Ecosystem
Benefiting from its first-mover advantage in various aspects such as users, community, and the market, SynFutures also has the potential to excel in the field of spot aggregation in the Base ecosystem. In the author's view, what SynFutures values is not the trading volume of spot aggregation business but rather the customer acquisition capability in the spot aggregator track. After all, most users do not directly interact with spot DEXs but rather execute trades through aggregators. Spot aggregators are essential tools for on-chain players and serve as hubs for traffic and users. Success in this business can further drive the growth of its futures trading business in terms of users, trading volume, and TVL, as derivative businesses are the most profitable.
Similar to its Jupiter Launchpad business, SynFutures also has the Perp Launched business. In the future, as the demand for listing from projects increases, SynFutures may receive a certain token reward from projects and airdrop them to SynFutures' token stakers. This will incentivize more users to stake, attract more projects to participate in the perp launchpad, and create a positive feedback loop.
Previously, SynFutures has successfully engaged in pilot collaborations for Perp Launchpad with well-known LST, LRT projects such as Lido, Solv Protocol, PumpBTC, top-tier MEME projects such as Cat in a Dogs World (MEW), Degen, and the recently popular AI+MEME project Virtual Protocol on Base. These collaborations have helped projects expand their user base and visibility on the Base chain, receiving rewards from projects and distributing them to SynFutures users. Meanwhile, SynFutures has also established a $1 million Perp Launchpad Grant Program to support emerging projects with listings, event support, etc., helping projects increase their on-chain user base, exposure, and activity.
Base Ecosystem Value Capture Black Hole
And as SynFutures becomes the most crucial reservoir of traffic, users, and funds in the Base ecosystem, its value capture will also reach astonishing levels. In the current scenario of contract-based trading only, its fee revenue in the past 30 days has already surpassed 3.3 million USD, ranking third in the protocol (the third rank being Base Network's Sequencer). As revenue grows with the maturity of its Perp Launchpad and other businesses, SynFutures has a significant opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with top protocols like AAVE, MakerDAO, and have more incentive to buy back tokens compared to other protocols.
And we all know that Base is most likely not going to mint tokens due to compliance reasons. But this is actually a good thing for projects in the Base ecosystem because ecosystem valuation and premium will be transferred to other projects within the Base ecosystem. As the flagship of the Base ecosystem, SynFutures, if given the opportunity to be listed on Coinbase like AERO, could potentially be the biggest beneficiary. After all, for the Base ecosystem to grow, it cannot do without Coinbase's support, and the most crucial factor in this process is to find a foothold in this ecosystem. Given that derivatives are a flagship on Base alongside spot trading, its importance to Base is self-evident, and Coinbase is more likely to provide resources to support its further growth, becoming the Killer App of the Base chain.
SynFutures, the Synthesis of the Base Ecosystem
In this scenario, as Jupiter of the Base ecosystem, what is the value proposition of SynFutures? Considering that its official website hints at an upcoming TGE, this is a very interesting question. Taking a spot dex as an example, the valuation of a Solana ecosystem project is approximately twice that of the Base ecosystem.
Therefore, a reasonable valuation of SynFutures on Base would be half of Jupiter's current valuation, roughly reaching around a 5.5 billion USD valuation.
If we take Jupiter's potential into account, some of its businesses are still in the early stage of development, carrying a certain level of unknown risk. Therefore, a calculation based on Jupiter's opening price may be more reasonable. Considering that we are now at the beginning of a bull market and the market sentiment is quite enthusiastic, a valuation of 3 billion US dollars may be a more reasonable price.
From their Discord, it is evident that their Korean community is exceptionally active. SynFutures, backed by well-known investors from both the East and the West such as Pantera, Polychain, Dragonfly, and SIG, has raised over $37.4 million. If there is an opportunity in the future to list on Korean exchanges like Upbit, then this valuation could potentially go even higher, especially considering that we are only at the beginning of a raging bull market.
Epilogue: As We Witness the $100,000 Bitcoin
Bitcoin has finally reached this historic moment, gradually turning the future into reality. With Bitcoin's liquidity overflowing and new funds entering the market, the structural issues in the current altcoin market will change, ushering in a new season of altcoins. In this season, the most anticipated projects are those that can earn real profits, especially those that have found their positioning, have a clear strategy, and are rapidly rising projects, such as Jupiter on Base and the derivatives leader, SynFutures, discussed today.
This article is a contributed submission and does not represent the views of BlockBeats.
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The X Chat will be available for download on the App Store this Friday. The media has already covered the feature list, including self-destructing messages, screenshot prevention, 481-person group chats, Grok integration, and registration without a phone number, positioning it as the "Western WeChat." However, there are three questions that have hardly been addressed in any reports.
There is a sentence on X's official help page that is still hanging there: "If malicious insiders or X itself cause encrypted conversations to be exposed through legal processes, both the sender and receiver will be completely unaware."
No. The difference lies in where the keys are stored.
In Signal's end-to-end encryption, the keys never leave your device. X, the court, or any external party does not hold your keys. Signal's servers have nothing to decrypt your messages; even if they were subpoenaed, they could only provide registration timestamps and last connection times, as evidenced by past subpoena records.
X Chat uses the Juicebox protocol. This solution divides the key into three parts, each stored on three servers operated by X. When recovering the key with a PIN code, the system retrieves these three shards from X's servers and recombines them. No matter how complex the PIN code is, X is the actual custodian of the key, not the user.
This is the technical background of the "help page sentence": because the key is on X's servers, X has the ability to respond to legal processes without the user's knowledge. Signal does not have this capability, not because of policy, but because it simply does not have the key.
The following illustration compares the security mechanisms of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and X Chat along six dimensions. X Chat is the only one of the four where the platform holds the key and the only one without Forward Secrecy.
The significance of Forward Secrecy is that even if a key is compromised at a certain point in time, historical messages cannot be decrypted because each message has a unique key. Signal's Double Ratchet protocol automatically updates the key after each message, a mechanism lacking in X Chat.
After analyzing the X Chat architecture in June 2025, Johns Hopkins University cryptology professor Matthew Green commented, "If we judge XChat as an end-to-end encryption scheme, this seems like a pretty game-over type of vulnerability." He later added, "I would not trust this any more than I trust current unencrypted DMs."
From a September 2025 TechCrunch report to being live in April 2026, this architecture saw no changes.
In a February 9, 2026 tweet, Musk pledged to undergo rigorous security tests of X Chat before its launch on X Chat and to open source all the code.
As of the April 17 launch date, no independent third-party audit has been completed, there is no official code repository on GitHub, the App Store's privacy label reveals X Chat collects five or more categories of data including location, contact info, and search history, directly contradicting the marketing claim of "No Ads, No Trackers."
Not continuous monitoring, but a clear access point.
For every message on X Chat, users can long-press and select "Ask Grok." When this button is clicked, the message is delivered to Grok in plaintext, transitioning from encrypted to unencrypted at this stage.
This design is not a vulnerability but a feature. However, X Chat's privacy policy does not state whether this plaintext data will be used for Grok's model training or if Grok will store this conversation content. By actively clicking "Ask Grok," users are voluntarily removing the encryption protection of that message.
There is also a structural issue: How quickly will this button shift from an "optional feature" to a "default habit"? The higher the quality of Grok's replies, the more frequently users will rely on it, leading to an increase in the proportion of messages flowing out of encryption protection. The actual encryption strength of X Chat, in the long run, depends not only on the design of the Juicebox protocol but also on the frequency of user clicks on "Ask Grok."
X Chat's initial release only supports iOS, with the Android version simply stating "coming soon" without a timeline.
In the global smartphone market, Android holds about 73%, while iOS holds about 27% (IDC/Statista, 2025). Of WhatsApp's 3.14 billion monthly active users, 73% are on Android (according to Demand Sage). In India, WhatsApp covers 854 million users, with over 95% Android penetration. In Brazil, there are 148 million users, with 81% on Android, and in Indonesia, there are 112 million users, with 87% on Android.
WhatsApp's dominance in the global communication market is built on Android. Signal, with a monthly active user base of around 85 million, also relies mainly on privacy-conscious users in Android-dominant countries.
X Chat circumvented this battlefield, with two possible interpretations. One is technical debt; X Chat is built with Rust, and achieving cross-platform support is not easy, so prioritizing iOS may be an engineering constraint. The other is a strategic choice; with iOS holding a market share of nearly 55% in the U.S., X's core user base being in the U.S., prioritizing iOS means focusing on their core user base rather than engaging in direct competition with Android-dominated emerging markets and WhatsApp.
These two interpretations are not mutually exclusive, leading to the same result: X Chat's debut saw it willingly forfeit 73% of the global smartphone user base.
This matter has been described by some: X Chat, along with X Money and Grok, forms a trifecta creating a closed-loop data system parallel to the existing infrastructure, similar in concept to the WeChat ecosystem. This assessment is not new, but with X Chat's launch, it's worth revisiting the schematic.
X Chat generates communication metadata, including information on who is talking to whom, for how long, and how frequently. This data flows into X's identity system. Part of the message content goes through the Ask Grok feature and enters Grok's processing chain. Financial transactions are handled by X Money: external public testing was completed in March, opening to the public in April, enabling fiat peer-to-peer transfers via Visa Direct. A senior Fireblocks executive confirmed plans for cryptocurrency payments to go live by the end of the year, holding money transmitter licenses in over 40 U.S. states currently.
Every WeChat feature operates within China's regulatory framework. Musk's system operates within Western regulatory frameworks, but he also serves as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This is not a WeChat replica; it is a reenactment of the same logic under different political conditions.
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