Reya Deep Dive: Sub-10ms Trading with CEO Simon Jones

Gelato founder Hilmar Orth sits down with Simon Jones, CEO of Reya, to unpack how his team is building one of the fastest and most ambitious decentralized exchanges in crypto.

Simon traces the path from Vaults Protocol, the first interest rate swap DEX, to Reya’s new application-specific based rollup that achieves sub-10ms execution times while staying secured by Ethereum. Along the way, they dig into the trade-offs between speed and decentralization, the rise of perpetuals as DeFi’s killer product, and how real-world assets (RWAs) could reshape margining and market design.

Episode Highlights

• Reya’s evolution from Vaults Protocol to a next-generation perpetual DEX

• How based rollups deliver both speed and decentralization

• Why sub-10ms execution unlocks new opportunities for traders and market makers

• Using RWAs as collateral and creating entirely new onchain markets

• The long-term vision: building a decentralized NASDAQ at internet scale

Resources & Links

👉 Follow Simon Jones on X: @0xSimonJones
👉 Follow Reya on X: @reya_xyz
🌐 Learn more at reya.network