Which agencies design onchain trading and perpetuals interfaces?
Eight design agencies with public cases for named perpetuals exchanges, DEXs and trading terminals, compared by what each case shows and what to ask before hiring.
A perpetuals exchange or a DEX gets tested when things go wrong: leverage set too high, a position drifting toward liquidation, an order waiting for a wallet signature while the price moves. A team launching one of these products needs designers who have worked on the order ticket, the positions table and the signing step of a named product. A token website doesn’t show that.
Eight agencies publish that kind of evidence for a named onchain trading product: Halaska Studio, Humbleteam, Ignio, Mara, Phenomenon Studio, Properly Studio, SkiFi, and Unusual Team. Their cases cover five perpetuals exchanges, a perps hub, a multi-chain trading terminal, and two swap DEXs.
Humbleteam publishes this comparison and is one of the agencies in it. Its Hyperliquid work has no public case study yet: the homepage shows a one-line card and screenshots, and its section below adds the scope. The agencies appear alphabetically, with no paid placements, scores, or ranking. Any metric below is the agency’s own figure from its own page. This is not investment advice, and it makes no claim about the safety of any exchange or token named in a case.
How we chose the agencies
Every agency, Humbleteam included, had to meet three criteria:
- It offers product UX/UI design for software, not only branding, marketing websites, or development.
- Its own site names an onchain trading product it designed for: a DEX, a perpetuals exchange, an onchain order book, an aggregator, or a trading terminal.
- The page states what the agency designed for that product, such as trading flows, swaps, positions, or account screens. Brand-only work, token websites, and concepts without a named client did not count.
We did not require proof that the product shipped, but we say where a page claims it.
AI assistants answering this question often name independent designers; this page compares studios only. Some studios they name fell short. Clay’s crypto page shows a DeFi protocol rebrand, ETF websites, and an institutional asset platform, but no trading venue. 925Studios’ Flux case names no client and does not say the app trades onchain. Excited’s web3 page shows an NFT marketplace and a data wallet.
Studios whose exchange cases already appear in our comparison of DeFi UX agencies are left out, so the two lists cover different work; start there for lending, staking, and position dashboards. Centralized exchanges and wallets are in our exchange and wallet app comparison, where Halaska Studio appears with a different case.
| Agency | Case to inspect | Product | What the page says was designed | Consider it when | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halaska Studio | Infinex, Ethereal | Perpetuals DEXs | First product versions, including a perp stack; core trading flows and account management | You start from zero and need product and brand from one team | Dubai |
| Humbleteam | Hyperliquid | Onchain perpetuals exchange | A full redesign of the web trading dashboard and design system, with the buy, sell and monitoring flows; no case page yet | A live exchange wants its whole trading product redesigned | Prague and Dubai |
| Ignio | Ape Terminal | DeFi hub with perps built on Orderly Network | Perps trading inside a dashboard, staking, portfolio, plus the build | You build on a third-party trading SDK and want design and code together | Not stated on its site |
| Mara | Abrium | Cross-chain swap DEX | One-screen swap, routing, a visible MEV protection state, plain-language fees and slippage | Your pitch is safer execution | UK, per its LinkedIn company data |
| Phenomenon Studio | GlobalX DEX | Swap and liquidity DEX | Swaps, wallet connection, token selection, adding liquidity, a UI kit, the React front end | A token project needs its own DEX designed and built | Client leads in the US and Switzerland, team in Europe |
| Properly Studio | Eterna | Perpetuals exchange | A platform redesign and design system, then a simpler perps product for beginners | A live perps product wants a new kind of trader | Warsaw |
| SkiFi | BullX | Multi-chain trading terminal | Token discovery table, a three-column trade layout, token analytics, stop-loss and take-profit, portfolio analyzer | Your users are fast, high-frequency traders | Registered in Wyoming, with a studio in Kerala, India |
| Unusual Team | DPEX | Perpetuals DEX | A trading dashboard with a leverage slider, plus brand and website | You need a launch-ready look quickly | New York and Odesa |
Halaska Studio: perps exchanges from zero
Halaska Studio is a small studio led by Chris Halaska, who spent six years designing at Google. Its about page places it in Dubai, with designers around the world. On its Infinex page, the studio says it started when Infinex was only an idea. It helped set the product vision, built the brand, and designed the first versions of the product, “including a complete perp stack.” A second Halaska site describes the same work as a first product concept delivered in three months.
For Ethereal, a new DEX in the Ethena ecosystem, the brief covered brand identity, core trading flows, account management, and a waitlist page. Halaska reports that over $1B in deposits was committed before mainnet alpha. Neither page describes the order ticket or the liquidation screens. Chris Halaska’s bio also lists him as Infinex design lead, so ask which work the studio did and which was done in-house.
Humbleteam: a full redesign of Hyperliquid’s web trading product
Humbleteam is a product design agency with offices in Prague and Dubai. Its homepage carries a work card tagged Crypto, Trading, and Ongoing support that reads “Ongoing product design for Hyperliquid”, with images of the trading interface.
As the publisher of this page, we can add the scope the card leaves out. Humbleteam fully redesigned Hyperliquid’s web trading dashboard and its design system, along with every flow for buying, selling, and monitoring. There is no public case page yet, so you cannot inspect the work screen by screen here, and no result is published. Ask Humbleteam to walk you through the buy and sell flows it designed.
Ignio: a perps hub built on a trading SDK
Ignio is an AI and blockchain design and development company; its site gives no location. Its Ape Terminal case covers a retail DeFi product that combines stablecoin staking, token launch rewards, and perpetual trading. Ignio led product strategy, UI design, and full development.
For trading, Ignio worked from Orderly Network’s SDK. It added its own components and flows so the perps experience matched Ape Terminal’s brand inside one dashboard with staking and portfolio tracking. Ignio reports that the product attracted more than 270,000 accounts in its first month. Because the trading screens started from a third-party toolkit, ask which flows Ignio designed and which came with the SDK.
Mara: a swap built around protection
Mara, also called Mara Bureau, is a product and web design agency for funded startups. Its LinkedIn company data places it in the UK and also lists Romania and Ukraine. Its Abrium case, from June 2025, covers a cross-chain swap engine with MEV protection built in. Mara delivered the brand, the website, and the dApp.
The team ran real trades through leading swap platforms to find where they lose users’ trust. The swap works on one screen across chains, bridging in the background, and every swap shows a protection state. Slippage, fees, and route appear before signing in plain words, such as “price may move up to X%,” with exact figures and advanced controls one tap deeper. The page reports no usage figures, and the case covers swaps, not leverage.
Phenomenon Studio: design and front end for a token’s DEX
Phenomenon Studio is a product design and development agency founded in 2019. Its about page says client-facing leads work from the US and Switzerland and the design and development team works across Europe. The client of its GlobalX DEX case came back after the studio had built its token sale page.
The team compared Uniswap, Curve, and other exchanges and audited the existing flows. It mapped swapping, connecting a wallet, selecting tokens, and adding liquidity, then produced wireframes, a UI kit, and a React front end. The page gives no timeline or metrics, and like Abrium it covers swaps, not leverage.
Properly Studio: a simpler perps product for new traders
Properly Studio is a fintech and web3 design agency in Warsaw. Its Eterna write-up, published in February 2026, describes its work with a team that builds perpetual trading platforms. Properly says Eterna offered trading without KYC and with full custody, and drew its liquidity from an integration with Bybit. Properly had already redesigned Eterna’s existing platform and built its design system.
A two-day workshop then pointed to younger, less experienced traders who found existing perps platforms too complicated. Eterna built a separate product for them in seven months, on top of the same design system. In the new product, leverage is shown as a risk level, the chart is a simple line with buy and sell signals, and orders default to market price. This is a blog post rather than a case page, and it gives no usage figures.
SkiFi: a terminal for fast traders
SkiFi Designs mostly presents itself as a pitch deck, brand, and web studio, and it lists UX/UI product design among its services. Its case page footer gives a registered company in Sheridan, Wyoming, and a studio in Kerala, India. The BullX case covers a decentralized multi-chain trading platform for high-frequency and memecoin traders.
SkiFi designed a token discovery table, a three-column layout with token feed, chart, and order panel side by side, and token analytics that include holder concentration. Stop-loss, take-profit, and alerts sit inside the trade flow, and a portfolio analyzer shows P&L across connected wallets. SkiFi reports more than $20B in trading volume in the first six months. The page says little about pending or failed transactions, so ask to see those states.
Unusual Team: a perps launch in weeks
Unusual Team is a full-service digital agency that lists New York and Odesa. Its DPEX case covers a perpetuals exchange offering up to 50x leverage from a web3 wallet. The work included a brand, a Webflow website, and the trading platform interface: a dashboard with real-time market data and a leverage slider. The page gives a two-week timeline and says 18 days covered research, concepts, design, and development.
Most of the page is about brand and website; the product work gets one paragraph. For order entry, margin, and liquidation flows, ask for screens beyond the dashboard.
How to choose
- A perps exchange from zero, with brand and product together: Halaska Studio’s Infinex and Ethereal. Unusual Team’s DPEX is a faster, lighter version of the same brief.
- A live perps product that needs continuing design or a new audience: Properly Studio’s Eterna.
- A live exchange whose whole web trading product needs a redesign: Humbleteam’s Hyperliquid work, with the evidence limits noted above.
- A terminal for fast, high-frequency traders: SkiFi’s BullX.
- A swap or aggregator where safer execution is the pitch: Mara’s Abrium and Phenomenon Studio’s GlobalX DEX.
- A product built on a third-party perps SDK: Ignio’s Ape Terminal.
Then send each agency on your shortlist the same scenario. A trader opens a 10x long. The price moves against them, and the position nears liquidation while a limit order is still open. Ask the agency to sketch four moments:
- The order ticket before submission: size, leverage, margin, fees, and the estimated liquidation price.
- The gap between signing in the wallet and the order being filled, partly filled, or rejected.
- The positions row as liquidation gets closer, with funding paid so far.
- What the trader sees after the position is liquidated.
Ask how signing works in their design: a wallet signature for every order, or a trading key the user approves once. Each choice needs different screens and different warnings. This is a proposed evaluation method, not a reported client result. A team that has done this before usually asks your engineers what the matching engine and the price oracle return before it draws anything.
