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Propeller Heads

Propeller Heads is a research and development company building trustless DeFi trading infrastructure. Its products include Turbine, a peer-to-peer trading exchange; Fynd, an open-source DEX aggregator; and Tycho, an open-source DEX indexing, simulation, and execution system for solvers and DEXs.

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17 current maintainers16 active leads3 new active leads3 lead step-downs1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026

Description

Propeller Heads develops open-source, peer-to-peer, and trustless systems intended to improve the DeFi trade supply chain. Turbine lets traders and liquidity providers trade and settle through batch-based peer-to-peer and on-chain liquidity, while Fynd provides a self-hosted local DEX router. Tycho indexes, streams, simulates, and helps execute across DEX liquidity for solvers, aggregators, and DEX integrations. The company serves DeFi traders, liquidity providers, developers, solvers, aggregators, and DEX teams.