Everything around the chart
The trade screen’s regions settling in around its chart: the market above, the book and the order form beside it, positions and the account below.
Meridian
Meridian is an ecosystem of onchain financial products designed around speed, simplicity, and accessibility. From perpetual futures to prediction markets, every product shares a unified design language, making complex trading experiences feel familiar and intuitive.
- Link
- meridian.xyz
2 products. Choose one
Meridian Trade is a perpetual futures platform built for trading real-world assets entirely onchain. The project focuses on simplifying professional trading workflows through intuitive charting, portfolio management, position tracking, and a unified design system that makes complex financial products feel approachable.
- Status
- In development
- Type
- Perpetual futures
Meridian Trade is the perpetual futures side of Meridian, and I worked on its product design. It’s still in development, so what follows is how the designs work rather than what they’ve achieved.
Meridian is a set of onchain financial products, from perpetual futures to prediction markets, that share one design language. Trade is its perps engine, built for real-world assets and fully onchain, with leverage of up to 250x.
Trading asks a lot of one screen, so the trade screen is a single workspace. The chart takes the most room, under the market’s figures: the oracle price, the 24h change, funding with its countdown, open interest and volume. The order book stands to its right and the order form at the edge, and your positions and your account sit underneath. Watching a market, placing an order and keeping track of it all happen in one place.
The book and the form share the right of the screen. The book shows asks above the spread and bids below it, with each side’s depth drawn behind its rows, growing away from the price. The form reads from the top down: the margin mode and leverage, Cross and 10x, then Buy/Long or Sell/Short, the order type, and the size, typed in or set with a slider. The order’s figures sit straight under Place Order: its liquidation price, order value, margin required and slippage.
Positions sit under the chart, one row each. A row runs from the market and its size, in the asset with the dollar value beneath, through the entry and oracle prices to the P&L, in dollars over a percentage. Then come the estimated liquidation price, funding, margin and TP/SL, with a pencil to edit the last two, and the row ends with its own Limit and Market buttons. Laid out like this, every position’s size, entry and P&L line up, so comparing them is a glance down a column, and the P&L is the only figure in colour.
Size, entry, P&L
Three positions read a column at a time: the size, the entry price, then the P&L, the one figure the designs give colour.
Beside them, the account panel shows the account itself: trade equity, unrealized P&L, the margin ratio, maintenance margin and the trade account’s leverage. The portfolio brings that account together with Prediction. Its overview lists Trade Equity and Prediction Balance and adds them up: $116,236.51 and $233,199.03 make the $349,435.54 of Total Balances, charted beside them. Transfer moves funds between the two, and the transaction history lists every move with its source and destination.
Two accounts, one total
Trade Equity and Prediction Balance from the portfolio overview in the designs, joined into its Total Balances.
The Trade and Prediction tabs are built the same way: three figures across the top, an overview with 24H, 7D, 30D and All-Time, a chart that switches between Equity, P&L and Volume, and a table underneath. Only what belongs to each product changes. Trade’s table has tabs for positions, orders, trades and funding history. Prediction adds a card for claimable winnings, and lists its positions with their legs, each leg marked as it resolves.
That’s the one design language at work. Trade and Prediction share the bar along the top, with Trade, Prediction, Portfolio and More, and the same pieces come back wherever they’re needed: underlined tabs, the same table of positions, orders and history in the workspace and the portfolio, uppercase labels over the big figures, the eye beside a balance and the bars beside a margin ratio.
The designs are below.