# Meridian Trade ### Meridian Trade Meridian Trade is the Leveraged DeFi trading platform within the Meridian suite of products. Leveraged Trading is a popular form of derivative trading that enables investors to speculate on the price movements of crypto assets, such as ETH and USDM without owning the underlying asset. Meridian Trade is margin-based, allowing traders to deposit a set percentage of the full value of a trade in order to offer greater exposure to the markets as compared to buying and holding the underlying asset. Meridian uses a multi-asset liquidity pool that enables both **leveraged trading** and **zero slippage swaps.** As a direct fork of the highly successful GMX protocol, Meridian shares the exact same smart contract code base. All contracts are fully verified and can be reviewed [here](https://docs.meridianfinance.net/welcome-to-meridian/broken-reference). #### [Launch Meridian App](https://www.meridianfinance.net/#/)