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The current price of ALEX Lab is $0.004075 with a 8.55% change in the last 24 hours.
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ALEX Lab is a decentralized finance platform for Bitcoin built on Stacks, the Bitcoin layer that adds smart contracts written in the Clarity language. It runs an automated market maker (AMM) exchange, an order-book exchange, a launchpad, staking and liquidity farming, and connects to other chains through the Brotocol bridge. ALEX is the platform's governance and incentive token. ALEX Lab matters because it is one of the longest-running and most used DeFi venues on Stacks, and a core part of the effort to put idle Bitcoin to work in on-chain finance.
Official resources: alexlab.co, documentation, GitHub and the Hiro Stacks explorer. The project was originally known as ALEXGO, a name still used on its older site, alexgo.io.
ALEX was founded by Dr. Chiente Hsu, its CEO, who previously worked at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse as a managing director and global head of quantitative research. The team describes itself as built by former Wall Street quants. The mainnet AMM went live in January 2022, and ALEX Lab and the ALEX Lab Foundation launched formally in March 2022.
The protocol has had two serious security incidents:
May 2024: bridge key compromise The deployer key for the XLink bridge contracts on BNB Chain was compromised, and the attacker upgraded the bridge endpoint to a malicious version, taking about $4.3 million in assets. ALEX Lab attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group.
June 2025: self-listing exploit An attacker abused a verification flaw in the self-listing function by referencing a failed transaction, taking around $8.3 million. ALEX Lab committed to reimburse affected users in full from its treasury.
ALEX contracts run on Stacks, whose blocks are anchored to Bitcoin, so the platform's state ultimately settles against Bitcoin's history. Users connect a Stacks or Bitcoin wallet and can:
Bitcoin users can also swap directly into BRC-20 or Runes versions of assets through Bitcoin-native swaps.
ALEX has an initial supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, allocated 50% to community staking rewards, 20% to the Foundation for the Community Reserve Pool, and 30% to employees, advisors, early investors and the founding team. The token lives natively on Stacks, with bridged versions on Ethereum and other networks.
Staking ALEX can be staked for cycles of 525 Stacks blocks (about 3.5 days). Rewards come from newly minted tokens and fees, and longer commitments mean fewer unrewarded cooldown cycles.
Liquidity incentives ALEX is the reward paid to liquidity providers and farmers.
Governance ALEX gives holders a say in platform proposals. The docs describe governance as progressive, starting with the Foundation and a Genesis Team and moving toward a full DAO over time.
ALEX offers a broad, integrated DeFi stack (AMM, order book, launchpad, bridge and liquid staking) on a Bitcoin layer rather than on Ethereum. Its founders' quant background shows in the documentation, which includes value-at-risk modeling for the protocol's reserve design. It also supports Bitcoin-native assets such as BRC-20 tokens and Runes alongside Stacks tokens.
ALEX is an application on Stacks, not a chain. Compared with Stacks itself (STX), which secures the network, ALEX is one of the apps built on top of it. Compared with DeFi on Bitcoin sidechains and layers such as Merlin Chain, BOB or Core, ALEX focuses on Stacks and Clarity contracts rather than EVM compatibility. Compared with Ethereum DEXs, liquidity is smaller, but the pairs center on Bitcoin assets.
Smart contracts on Stacks inherit transaction finality from Stacks, which anchors to Bitcoin. ALEX has commissioned audits from CoinFabrik, Least Authority and Clarity Alliance covering pools, the DAO, the order book, the bridge, and later additions such as the self-listing pool and the discrete AMM (2025). Reports are listed on the security audit page, and a bug bounty is hosted with Immunefi. The 2024 and 2025 incidents show that audits alone did not prevent losses, particularly around key management and cross-chain verification.
ALEX is one of the main venues testing whether Bitcoin holders will use on-chain finance without leaving the Bitcoin ecosystem. Its product range makes it a hub for Stacks DeFi, while its incident history is a reminder of how much security work cross-chain Bitcoin finance still needs.
According to the ALEX docs, the easiest route is the ALEX Lab app itself: Stacks users can swap for ALEX directly, Bitcoin users can use Bitcoin-native swaps, and users on other chains can bridge assets first. ALEX has also traded on centralized exchanges; the "Buy ALEX" button on the official site lists current markets.
On Stacks, ALEX can be held in Stacks wallets such as Leather or Xverse, including with a Ledger device where supported. The Ethereum version (0xa831a4e181f25d3b35949e582ff27cc44e703f37) works with any EVM wallet. Always verify the token contract (SP102V8P0F7JX67ARQ77WEA3D3CFB5XW39REDT0AM.token-alex on Stacks) before transacting.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of ALEX Lab is $0.004075 with a 8.55% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $22,584.74 representing a 4.00% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of ALEX Lab is $3,885,915, ranking #790 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of ALEX Lab is $4,074,792, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 ALEX is in circulation.
Circulating: 953,647,354. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, ALEX Lab traded between a low of $0.004008 and a high of $0.004475.
ALEX/USDTTether USDT0.004075 USDT
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