--- type: entity entity_type: company name: Archer Exchange domain: internet-finance status: active founded: 2025 founders: - Dhrumil (@mmdhrumil) website: "" platform: Solana category: market-making-infrastructure tracked_by: rio created: 2026-03-11 --- # Archer Exchange Market making infrastructure protocol on Solana providing fully on-chain matching with dedicated order books per market maker. Architecture gives each MM a writable-only-by-you order book while aggregating quotes for best execution. Design inspired by observation that "prop AMMs did extremely well" — applying state isolation principles to competitive market making. ## Timeline - **2026-03-09** — Architecture described: dedicated per-MM order books, on-chain matching, competitive quote aggregation. Positioned as infrastructure layer solving execution quality for Solana DeFi. ## Relationship to KB - Provides market making infrastructure for [[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]] - Implements novel mechanism design pattern: [[archer-exchange-implements-dedicated-writable-only-order-books-per-market-maker-enabling-permissionless-on-chain-matching]] - Part of Solana DeFi infrastructure ecosystem supporting [[MetaDAO is the futarchy launchpad on Solana where projects raise capital through unruggable ICOs governed by conditional markets creating the first platform for ownership coins at scale]]