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# Meridian Trade

### Meridian Trade <a href="#omnitrade" id="omnitrade"></a>

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.&#x20;

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.**&#x20;

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](broken://pages/nc62pXgCyHz6AN215rc7).

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