Product definition
What is Axiom Trade?
Axiom Trade is the public name traders use for axiom.trade — a browser (and mobile) terminal for on-chain trading. Official copy describes it as a hybrid trading app and wallet: you can buy and sell in one click, track wallets, watch X/Twitter, and route into perpetuals and yield products without parking funds on a centralised exchange order book.
Who built it
Y Combinator lists Axiom in the Winter 2025 batch, with founders Henry Zhang and Preston Ellis, based around San Francisco, product URL axiom.trade. The YC blurb positions Axiom as a DeFi trading app for memecoins, perpetuals and yield, with the longer-term aim of abstracting chains and accounts.
What you trade
Most volume historically sits on Solana memecoins (Pump.fun style launches, Raydium migrations). Referral docs also mention fees from trades on BSC and Ethereum. Perpetual futures run through a Hyperliquid integration; Axiom documents up to 50x leverage and a 0.01% Axiom fee per perps transaction, on top of Hyperliquid’s own maker/taker schedule.
Wallet and custody
Axiom’s FAQ says it is a wallet as well as a trading app, with non-custodial infrastructure and key management via partner Turnkey. You see a recovery phrase. That is the opposite of Binance-style custody: Axiom cannot “reset” a lost seed. Docs also suggest importing the phrase into a standard wallet so you always have an exit path.
What sits in the terminal
- Pulse — new creations, final stretch, migrated pairs, filters, Quick Buy
- Swap, market and limit orders, convert, instant trade
- Migration actions (buy/sell on migration without a separate sniper bot)
- Portfolio, staking / Marginfi yield (docs cite up to 15% APY, variable)
- Multi-wallet, wallet monitor, tweet monitor, trader scan, bundle checker
- TradingView charts
Who it is for
Active memecoin and on-chain traders who want discovery and execution on one screen. It is a poor fit if you want regulated UK brokerage, fiat bank withdrawals as your primary rail, or if you are unwilling to self-custody a seed phrase.
New users on this guide should start at axiom.trade/@thanks with code THANKS. Continue with the review and features pages.
Open the real product
axiomtrade.co.uk explains Axiom. axiom.trade is where trading happens.