Our Mission

Why Polarity?

Polarity is a response to the age-old question: what is Crypto really for?

For the past half decade, adventurers, creatives and researchers have attempted to reveal the answer by pushing the limits of a blockchain's expressiveness. What is the most we could do with a blockchain? How much can we stretch -- extend it? Of course, most of these efforts were driven by financial incentives. The aim being to create a richer environment for financial tooling. However, in the process, we learned that the more we extend a blockchain's functionality, the more we inevitably hinder its function; the more we stretch it, the more it begins to tear. In trying to make it more expressive, we jeopardize its first and foremost function: to be a distributed ledger.

What does this all actually mean? The majority of a programmable blockchain's volume is actually exchange related. The demand to leverage a blockchain for escrowing trades is clear. But, exchange is a game of speed, and with network propagation being an inherent trait of blockchains, the bottleneck for performance becomes a grave, if not unshakable one.

Why Bitcoin?

Bitcoin has fundamentally changed the way we think about money, yet its full potential remains untapped. But currently, the network is used entirely to power a store of value. Unlike programmable blockchains, the world of BTC exchange relies solely on CEXs. The core philosophy of Bitcoin is to empower individuals with direct control and custody over their finances, a complete contrast to the centralized nature of the traditional financial system. The current methods for acquiring and trading Bitcoin fall short of embodying this principle. Its true value is the underlying network, supported by millions of miners, offering a level of distributed trust likely unmatched by any future system.

To the point

How can we make BTC trading more efficient? This is quite possibly the most valuable question in crypto. The idea is simple: BTC trades ~$5T a year, enhancing trading efficiency by 1% unlocks $50 billion in value (directly + indirectly). The single bottleneck preventing this leap in market efficiency today is the hidden cost of trust.

In the only efficient crypto-exchanges today, the cost of trust is the custody/counterparty risk associated with an exchange.

While most people think that traditional exchange is optimized it is actually still subtly hindered by antiquated and clunky systems. It's optimized, but quite inefficient.