What is Senticore?
Senticore is a hybrid crypto exchange that pairs the execution quality of a centralized venue with the custody and verifiability guarantees of an on-chain protocol - without asking users to choose between the two.
Senticore is operating a capped, whitelisted private beta with live contracts on Arbitrum One and real collateral. It is not a public launch. Future external access dates are planning targets until formally announced.
The problem we solve
Traders are stuck choosing between two flawed models:
- Centralized exchanges are fast and liquid, but you hand custody to an operator and take their solvency on faith. 2022 showed what that costs.
- On-chain DEXs are self-custodial and transparent, but on-chain matching is slow, MEV-exposed, and a poor fit for a real order book.
Senticore refuses the trade-off: match like a CEX, settle and prove like a chain. Funds stay in an on-chain vault, the operator cannot fabricate balances, and solvency and withdrawals are verifiable by anyone - while order entry, matching, and risk run at off-chain speed.
How it works
Senticore is built around three architectural pillars.
Off-chain matching
Users sign trading actions and route them to a Rust matching engine designed for low-latency execution. Matching runs on a single deterministic primary - there is no multi-node consensus to trust and no matching-layer fork risk. Because the same inputs always produce the same result, the off-chain engine is independently auditable: replay the accepted event log and you recompute the market-state root plus the separate financial roots the current checkpoint policy commits on-chain. The engine processes order entry, matching, risk checks, and fill generation before blockchain confirmation is needed.
On-chain commitments
The sequencer periodically publishes checkpoint roots to on-chain contracts. The current root set separates market/order-book state from solvency, exit entitlements, and withdrawal claims; each has its own verifier and proof semantics.
Multi-product collateral
Spot markets, binary options, and prediction markets share a unified collateral model. Users deposit supported assets once and trade across enabled markets subject to risk checks and market rules.
What makes Senticore different
| What it means for users / partners | |
|---|---|
| Verifiable solvency | Protocol- and account-level solvency proofs are first-class API endpoints - not a quarterly PDF. |
| Proof-backed withdrawals | Withdrawals settle against on-chain roots with Merkle proofs, not operator discretion. |
| One collateral layer, many products | Spot, binary options, and prediction markets on a single deposit and risk model. |
| Built for professionals | REST, public/private WebSocket, HTTP order-entry bytes for provisioned market makers, and FIX where provisioned. |
| An ecosystem, not just a venue | Builder Codes monetize market access; the Launchpad brings new assets to listing. |
| Engineered, then opened | The full deposit-to-withdrawal lifecycle already runs on real collateral in internal beta. |
Architecture at a glance
Who is Sentico Labs
Sentico Labs is an EU-based engineering team building Senticore. We have built the system end-to-end before presenting it as a public product - depth first, marketing second.
What is implemented today
- Matching, sequencing, and risk in Rust, validated with deterministic cross-engine differential replay and nightly property fuzzing across supported order types.
- Custody and state commitment contracts with CI coverage gating, invariant testing, adversarial signature paths, and full-stack settlement round-trip tests.
- Production-shape persistence with health-checked pooling, hash-versioned migrations, active Prometheus metrics, and tested recovery procedures.
- Full lifecycle validation from deposit to match to settle to proof-backed withdrawal during internal beta with real collateral.
- TypeScript, Python, and Rust SDK previews with typed HTTP and WebSocket clients.
- Web application with wallet integration and trading flows.
- Builder Codes for paid builder access to existing markets, with Builder Basic and Builder Pro pricing classes.
- Launchpad intake, fee-gated admission, asset registry, orchestration worker, and listing wireup, with production chain automation still release-gated.
What is scheduled before public launch
| Milestone | Target |
|---|---|
| Broader external beta | Planning target; not announced |
| Public TypeScript SDK npm publication | Shipped (@sentico-labs/sdk 0.2.0) |
| External tier-1 security audit | Q4 2026 to Q1 2027 |
| Audit remediation and launch hardening | Q1 2027 |
| Public mainnet | H1 2027 target, post-audit |
Where to go next
- Read the architecture.
- Review the trust model.
- Explore order types.
- Review Building.
- Start integrating through Getting Started.