A Detailed Analysis of Raydium and its Potential

The Coin Times
3 min readSep 28, 2021

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The cryptocurrency space is constantly growing and new projects backed by crypto coins are popping up in the market every now and then. As a result, we now have several exciting options to choose between when we want to buy cryptocurrency.

Raydium is a new entry that aims to change decentralized finance (DeFi). It is a marketplace for people to access financial products and uses the central order book of Serum eDecentralized exchange (DEX).

The Raydium coin or RAY is also gaining popularity with investors. However, is it worth getting interested in RAY? Is it a good choice to put your money on?

Here is our analysis.

Why is Raydium Special?

Raydium is unique from the rest of its competitors due to several reasons. The most important one is the ability to offer on-chain liquidity that is not available with others.

Additionally, Raydium connects to Serum to take advantage of its order flow. As a result, Raydium can enjoy liquidity from every DApps in the Serum ecosystem, and so Raydium can access all the shared liquidity pools instead of relying on in-house pools.

Moreover, Raydium allows lightning fast swaps and opportunities for yield farms.

All of these reasons make RAY a good choice for investment; the coins can grow in value as the Raydium ecosystem becomes more popular and invites more projects.

An Outlook on Raydium Coin

RAY is the native token of the Raydium platform. Raydium created 555 million RAY tokens during its launch. It will release 34% of these in the coming three years as an incentive for yield farming. Another 30% of the tokens are for projects and partnerships developed on Raydium.

RAY holders get several benefits like having voting rights on the course of the project. Additionally, they can get fees for staking or locking up a specific amount of RAY. Plus, token holders also get new tokens during future crypto launches.

Raydium recorded its all-time high of $15.88 in May 2021. However, the coin also saw its value slashed in half in the following months. It also recorded an all-time low of $2.46. Currently, RAY’s value is around $10 in day-to-day trading.

Experts believe the value of RAY will increase in the following months for multiple reasons; Raydium comes with the launchpad AcceleRaytor to host unique projects on the Solana blockchain, and as a result, RAY can increase in value as soon as a valuable project comes to AcceleRaytor. Current projects on Solana can also influence the price of RAY, like Star Atlas and Grape Protocol.

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Additionally, the value of RAY can increase due to DropZone. It is a new blockchain that already supports NFTs or non-fungible tokens, which can prove ownership of digital works.

The growth of DropZone could also push RAY’S value up in the future.

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Final Thoughts

Radium looks promising, and experts believe it is best as a long-term investment strategy. The creators of Raydium are also hoping for a lot of token exchanges to happen. They also hope robust projects will take off based on Solana, and the ecosystem will grow big.

However, Raydium also has a few risks: competition and security threats can affect the project negatively and the code of the project is open-source, so anyone can try to break it. Though Raydium’s team is working on these issues and hopes to build a secure solution to support its growth.

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