Fairway x Strike Finance: Pioneering Institutional-Grade Derivatives on Cardano

Fairway is partnering with Strike Finance to bring institutional-grade compliance, performance, and yield generation to Cardano’s decentralized derivatives markets.

Strike Finance — a leading decentralized derivatives and perpetuals protocol on Cardano — and Fairway are joining forces to explore how identity and jurisdictional compliance layers can support permissioned or region-specific trading environments. This opens new opportunities for regulated institutions to participate confidently in on-chain derivatives markets.

By combining Strike’s high-performance trading infrastructure with Fairway’s zero-knowledge identity and compliance stack, this collaboration aims to unlock institutional access to derivatives, structured products, and yield-bearing liquidity pools — all while maintaining self-custody and privacy.

The partnership will focus on:

• Exploratory pilots showcasing compliance-gated trading models on Cardano testnet
• Institutional-grade liquidity design enabling professional users to generate yield in Strike’s decentralized perpetual markets
• Ecosystem engagement highlighting compliant and transparent pathways for real-world adoption

Institutional participation in DeFi derivatives represents one of the largest untapped opportunities in decentralized finance. With Fairway’s compliance rails and Strike’s robust technical foundation, this partnership marks an important step toward making Cardano the natural home for regulated, institutional-level DeFi.

Together, Fairway and Strike are building the framework for trust, performance, and institutional liquidity in the next generation of DeFi.