What IVX is
IVX (IVX Labs) is a decentralized finance protocol for zero-slippage, on-chain options and perpetual futures trading, built on Berachain and HyperEVM. It pairs an intent-based trading system with ultra-short, zero-day-to-expiry options, giving traders high leverage without a traditional order book. The project was backed by a seed round and a Series round that valued the company at $30 million post-money.
My role
I worked as a Frontend Engineer building and maintaining the trading interface in Next.js, shipping new features, fixing bugs, and working the way most engineering teams do: tickets tracked in Jira, changes opened as pull requests, reviewed by the team lead, and promoted through dev → staging → production before reaching users.
Analytics and charting
One of the features I built was an analytics dashboard using TradingView charts, rendering data pulled from the backend API through RTK Query. That RTK Query layer was set up under an n-tier architecture for state management, keeping data-fetching, caching, and UI concerns cleanly separated.
Talking to the chain
IVX ran on Berachain and HyperEVM, so a lot of the frontend work meant talking directly to smart contracts: reading and writing on-chain state via ABIs with Wagmi, and converting raw values between their on-chain representation (wei) and human-readable decimals correctly at every step.
I also built the protocol's GraphQL layer on the frontend using Apollo Client, querying indexed on-chain data from subgraphs to display trading history and market data without hitting the chain directly for every read.
Where it stands now
From there, the team moved me onto a new venture, Yasmin, while IVX carried on to build Spreads, a version 2 of the protocol I wasn't involved in. IVX itself shut down in May 2026.