APX finance genuinely offers the best of both worlds as they have two platforms. Their V1 model, which is Best described as market book kinda environment. And their V2 model they operate completely on-chain offering up to 1,001x leverage! And if you aren’t a traitor, they also have some incredible yields on several different L2’s for Ethereum providing double digit returns. Admittedly it seemed too good to be true considering the prospective yield but considering Binance labs was their primary seed funder and they continue to collaborate with them pretty often I’m happy camper!

Like many others PancakeSwap was the first real experience I had with a DEX — after being in the industry for ~5 years now it’s still my go-to as not only do they help provide users with warnings when swapping “unknown” tokens they continue to grow incredibly ecosystem-wise. They integrated more than just the original BNB-specific swap capacity to now offering their DEX swaps for tokens on ZkSync, Base, Arbitrum and a handful of other chains. They also are pretty much the only platform I personally feel comfortable with staking / yield farming on considering their liquidity & overall security protocols. Recently they actually even began offering perpetual futures & now even options trading on the platform; all while making sure there’s definitely a tutorial or guide of some sort at minimum so you aren’t feeling lost when you exploring their products! 10/10 from me :)