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# Overview

<mark style="color:blue;">**Alpaca Protocol**</mark> **is a&#x20;**<mark style="color:red;">**Meta Aggregator of Perpetual DEXes**</mark> with GMX, DyDx and soon all other perp DEXes.

**Alpaca Protocol** is a collection of decentralized protocols that aim to provide traders with a cost-effective, efficient, and secure trading experience. It includes a range of features such as deep liquidity, diverse market options, and leveraged trading capabilities.

#### **Key Components**

Alpaca Protocol has two key components that work together to provide traders with the best possible trading experience:

1. <mark style="color:red;">**Leveraged Trading Protocol**</mark>
2. <mark style="color:blue;">**Leveraged Trading Aggregator**</mark>

#### <mark style="color:red;">**Leveraged Trading Protocol**</mark>

The Alpaca Protocol is a decentralized protocol that enables traders to trade with leverage up to 100x without any counterparty risks. Key features of this protocol:

* Zero price impact trading.
* Optimized on-chain trading experience.
* Traders trade against the ALPACA native pool (ALPALP pool).

#### <mark style="color:blue;">**Alpaca Leveraged Trading Aggregator**</mark>

The Alpaca Leveraged Trading Aggregator is a sub-protocol within the Alpaca Protocol that automatically selects the most suitable liquidity route for traders, minimizing the composite cost while meeting the needs of opening positions. Here are some key features of this protocol:

* Automatically finds the best liquidity route
* Lowers costs for traders
* Can supply additional margin for traders to raise the leverage up to 100x on aggregated underlying protocols

#### Overall  benefits:

* Optimized trading costs.
* Deep liquidity.
* A wide range of leverage options.
* Diverse market options.
* No counterparty risks.
* Efficient and secure trading experience.

These benefits make the Alpaca Protocol Suite an attractive option for traders looking to optimize their trading strategies while minimizing costs and risks.

**Future Developments**

Developers are continuously working to add new features and technologies to meet the needs of traders. As such, traders can expect even more benefits from the suite in the future.