Traditional decentralized exchanges (DEXs) often require liquidity providers to lock up their funds, limiting flexibility and potentially reducing yield generation opportunities. Existing order book DEXs may lack the ability for sophisticated users to implement custom trading strategies directly on the platform.

Mangrove is an order book-based DEX that allows liquidity providers to deploy custom trading strategies without locking their funds. Users can post smart contracts as offers, enabling them to optimize yield generation while participating in real-time trading. This approach gives liquidity providers total control over their liquidity, allowing them to integrate yield-generating activities from other DeFi protocols directly into their trading strategies. Mangrove's architecture allows for the creation of complex, composable strategies, including automated market making (AMM) approaches similar to UniV3 but with more granular parameter control.

Order book-based DEX enabling limit orders and market orders.

Smart offers: users can post smart contracts as offers to execute custom trading strategies.

Kandel AMM: a built-in automated market maker inspired by grid trading strategies.

Integration with other DeFi protocols: allows users to restake positions and generate yield from various sources.

TypeScript SDK: facilitates the creation and deployment of custom trading strategies.

Open-source protocol: promotes transparency and community-driven development.

Rigorously audited: ensures the security and reliability of the platform.

Mangrove targets DeFi users, liquidity providers, and developers seeking advanced trading functionalities and the ability to implement custom market-making strategies on a decentralized exchange.