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# Orbs Institutional

## What is Orbs Institutional?

Orbs Institutional is institutional-grade swap infrastructure for on-chain execution. It packages the execution layer behind leading decentralized trading venues, live in production since 2023, for trading desks, wallets, custodians, and institutional platforms.

The track record: $2.5B+ in cumulative processed volume, 10+ chains live, and 30+ venue integrations, all built on the same Orbs L3 infrastructure that powers spot execution products across DeFi.

### The market structure institutions know, on-chain

Institutional trading teams expect risk-management order types and execution control as standard. Orbs Institutional delivers that market structure for on-chain execution:

* **Best price** - Aggregates DEX liquidity and professional market makers through an RFQ layer for best on-chain pricing.
* **Time-sliced execution** - Splits large orders over time to reduce market impact and improve execution quality. Decentralized, non-custodial, fully on-chain.
* **Price-targeted execution** - Executes only when the target price is available. No manual monitoring, no off-chain custody, no desk-side intervention.
* **Stop-loss / take-profit** - Automated position protection with on-chain triggers.

### Self-custody, always

Orbs Institutional is built to slot into the institutional stack without custody handoff:

* Assets never leave the client's wallet. Orders are signed from the wallet and settle back to the wallet.
* No counterparty exposure to Orbs or any trading venue.
* Works with existing security infrastructure: in-house MPC or any EIP-712-compatible signer.
* The client keeps their policy engine, approval workflows, and signers. Orbs integrates and executes.

### Key features

* Non-custodial by design
* Gasless across every product
* MEV protected
* Proven in production since 2023 across 30+ decentralized trading venues

### Integration paths

There are two ways to access Orbs Institutional:

1. **Institutional users** - API access for trading desks, OTC desks, treasuries, asset managers, and institutional execution teams.
2. **Infrastructure and access partners** - Embed Orbs execution inside the platform your clients already use, with co-branded or fully white-labeled options.

### Powered by the Orbs Network

All execution runs on the decentralized Orbs Network. Guardians operating under Proof-of-Stake consensus power the routing, aggregation, and order-execution services, the same infrastructure behind Liquidity Hub and the Orbs Advanced Orders Suite (dTWAP, dLIMIT, dSLTP).

Learn more at [orbs.com/institutional](https://www.orbs.com/institutional/)