Project 0

Project 0 is a DeFi-native prime brokerage that lets users borrow against their entire DeFi portfolio across multiple venues.

## Executive Summary Project0 is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Solana blockchain, engineered to deliver a trading experience comparable to that of a centralized exchange (CEX) without sacrificing the core DeFi principle of self-custody. It achieves this through a **hybrid architecture**, which combines an off-chain order book for high-performance order matching with on-chain settlement for security and transparency. By moving the order management process off-chain, Project0 bypasses the latency and potential network congestion of a purely on-chain system, allowing for near-instan