Today, we’re excited to introduce Chromes, a new layer of the Ionex Points Campaign designed to recognize participation, celebrate alignment, and boost your points through collectible, time-limited badges.

Chromes aren’t just badges. They represent your identity, your achievements, and your journey across Ionex and the broader Plasma ecosystem.

Let’s take a look at how the campaign works.

What Are Chromes?

Chromes are collectible badges that grant Ionex Points (Ions).

They are released over time and tied to meaningful milestones such as:

• Trading activity

• Volume thresholds

• Early supporter recognition

• Referral growth

• Cross-ecosystem alignment 

• More

Chromes give you a way to show who you are inside the ecosystem: a trader, a builder, a supporter, a community member, or all of the above. 

And every Chrome collected brings you one step closer to a larger share of the airdrop.

How to Earn Chromes

Each Chrome has two simple requirements: 

1. Complete the action tied to the badge

Verify that you meet the specific action tied to the Chrome. This could be holding a token, being part of a community, etc.

2. Meet the Ionex Points (Ions) threshold

You must meet the minimum Ionex Points (Ions) required for that Chrome. This threshold helps prevent bot-farming and ensures Chromes go to genuine participants.

Once both conditions are met, you can claim the Chrome, permanently adding it to your collection.

Chromes are time-limited, so claiming them as they’re released is key.

Boost Your Points With Chrome Multipliers

The more Chromes you collect, the higher your multiplier.

At the end of the campaign, your total Ionex Points receive a multiplier based on how many of them you hold.

Chromes' Multipliers

You always receive the highest tier you qualify for. Multipliers do not stack across tiers.

This means that active participants, collectors, and early supporters all get rewarded for their commitment.

The Chromes Rollout

Chromes will be released progressively over the campaign.

New badges will drop regularly, including trading milestones, partner communities, achievements, and more.

This ensures the campaign stays dynamic, engaging, and rewarding from start to finish. 

Start Collecting

Your first Chromes will arrive soon.

Complete the tasks, meet the Ions thresholds, and claim your badges before they expire.

Every Chrome matters, for identity, influence, and your place in the Ionex leaderboard.

Get ready to collect, compete, and climb.

Chromes are coming.

This marks the beginning of a new era for on-chain perps, and you can be part of it from day one.

What Is Take Off?

Take Off is a points-based campaign where every action earns you points.

Your mission: trade perps, climb the leaderboard, and qualify for future airdrop. Every day, a fixed number of Ionex Points is distributed among all active traders, based on each user’s share of total trading volume and other actions. That means your activity directly determines how much of that daily pool you earn.

The more active you are on Ionex, the more points you earn, and the stronger Ionex becomes.

How to Join

Access to Ionex Perps during Take Off is invite-only.

This creates early exclusivity and rewards the most engaged community members.

You can get the invite code by:

• Joining our Discord, Telegram, and following us on X

• Completing quests and community challenges

• Participating actively in discussions and helping others

• Other future campaigns

Once you unlock your invite, you’ll gain access to Ionex Perps and can start trading to earn points.

How It Works

The concept is simple: The more active you are on Ionex, the more points (and potential future rewards) you earn.

Here’s how it goes:

1. Earn Access through community activities

2. Start Trading perps on Ionex

3. Earn Points from your activity

4. Climb the Leaderboard and rise through the ranks

The Loop

Every trade strengthens the Ionex ecosystem.

All fees and funding payments from Ionex Perps are used to buy back INX.

from the market, creating a self-reinforcing loop:

• More trading → more fees

• More fees → more $INX buybacks

• More buybacks → higher $INX value

• Higher $INX value → bigger airdrop potential

• Bigger airdrop → more trading

Every trade fuels the next, building value for traders and for the protocol.

In Short

Take Off isn’t just a trading event, it’s the start of the Ionex movement.

Join early, trade actively, and help shape the MetaPerp era on Plasma.

Trade. Climb. Take Off.

Ionex is that new infrastructure.

What We’re Building

Ionex is the first MetaPerp protocol: a unified trading infrastructure combining institutional-grade perpetual futures with spot liquidity aggregation, governed by a sustainable tokenomics flywheel built for long-term value creation.

Unlike perpetual DEXs that simply mimic centralized mechanics on-chain, Ionex leverages intent-based architecture to achieve what CEXs cannot: true self-custody with CeFi-level execution. Traders express intents, while Orbs's solver network competes to deliver optimal fills via a bilateral clearing infrastructure.

This isn’t about porting CeFi into DeFi. It’s about making perpetual futures a native DeFi primitive.

Why Plasma, Why Now

Ionex chose Plasma not only for its tech, but for its vision: transforming on-chain dollars into everyday money. With zero-fee USDT transfers and institutional backing from Bitfinex, Tether, and Founders Fund, Plasma is emerging as the settlement layer for the global stablecoin economy.

For derivatives, this is mission-critical. Perps live and die by efficient price discovery and seamless capital mobility. On Plasma, capital flows at zero marginal cost—a fundamental unlock for building the next-generation derivatives hub.

Plasma + Ionex = institutional-grade liquidity depth + unmatched capital efficiency.

The Infrastructure We’re Contributing

Ionex isn’t just built on Plasma—we’re expanding its utility across multiple layers:

• Liquidity Infrastructure – Our upcoming MetaDEX will aggregate liquidity from every major DEX and AMM, creating deeper, more efficient spot markets that power the entire Plasma ecosystem.

• Intent Settlement Layer – Partnering with Orbs, we bring proven intent-based execution to Plasma, enabling other protocols to build complex financial operations on top.

• Solver Liquidity at Scale – Backed by millions in committed solver capital, Ionex can scale to support $100M+ in open interest from day one. This ensures not only efficient order matching, but institutional-grade liquidity depth.

Sustainable Value Creation

At the heart of Ionex is our tri-token economy (INX / veINX / oINX):

• Perp fees fund INX buybacks → strengthening token value

• Spot fees reward veINX stakers → deepening community alignment

• oINX options provide flexible incentives → avoiding inflationary emissions

Instead of printing tokens to buy growth, Ionex uses productive fee flows to create sustainable value.

The Ionex Flywheel

Perp trading → generates fees → treasury buybacks INX → price support → attracts liquidity providers

Spot trading → generates fees → rewards veINX stakers → stronger governance alignment

Growing both → sustainable revenue → long-term value accrual

This self-reinforcing loop, inspired by Curve and refined through 6+ years of DeFi experience, ensures Ionex creates value instead of extracting it.

Built for the Long Term

Ionex combines Orbs’ technical infrastructure expertise with DeFizoo’s 6+ years of DeFi execution. This is not a new team chasing narratives—it’s seasoned builders creating durable infrastructure for the next decade of decentralized trading.

Our fair launch (50% to liquidity, 20% to early adopters) ensures the community governs from day one through veINX. Real decisions—fees, listings, treasury use—are in the hands of token holders, not insiders.

The MetaPerp Vision

In five years, Ionex will be the backbone of DeFi derivatives—a single interface where perps, spot, and structured products converge into efficient, trust-minimized markets.

While CeFi asks traders to trust opaque custody and order books, Ionex guarantees verifiable execution, self-custody, and institutional performance.

This is what DeFi was always meant to be: not just decentralized, but better.

Join the Infrastructure

Ionex launches as a perpetuals protocol, but its vision is much bigger: to become the trading infrastructure layer for DeFi’s next era.

Every trade strengthens the flywheel. Every veINX stake deepens community ownership. Every execution proves DeFi can deliver what CeFi never could.

Perpetuals are where crypto trades — and DeFi infrastructure is how crypto wins.

The infrastructure is ready. The community is building. The future of derivatives trading on Plasma starts here.