Testing, Testing, 1, DEX.DO, 3
The first public test of the Dark Order Exchange backend is now open
DEX.DO—the decentralized dark exchange on Acki Nacki—has entered its first public testing phase. The backend is deployed, the API is documented, the docs are public, and anyone—no signup, no auth, no permission slip—can start querying it right now. Alongside, Season 1 has begun: a points season on Shellnet where your activity—bets, trades, referrals—accrues now and converts into rewards later.
TL;DR:
A public demo instance of the DEX.DO API is live on Shellnet. Two read-only endpoints are open to everyone, today, with zero setup.
The complete REST API—the full trading and account surface—is documented and published. Authenticated endpoints are there for anyone who wants to integrate.
Anyone can test the full trading API end-to-end by requesting a Shellnet Block Manager license and Shellnet SHELL tokens, deploying their own BM, and deploying the DEX.DO backend. There’s an SDK too.
Season 1 is running on Acki Nacki Shellnet. Connect a wallet, place bets, trade the book, invite friends. Activity accrues as points; points convert into a NACKL allocation at claim, at the end of the season.
Now the longer version.
One (1) — The backend is open for poking
DEX.DO’s first public test release is exactly what it says: public. We deployed a demo instance of the DEX.DO API on Shellnet and left the front door open.
The read-only part of the API requires no authentication whatsoever, allowing anyone to browse prediction markets (their lifecycle status, outcomes, oracle event data, and trading parameters) and fetch live order book depth for any market symbol. That’s it: No setup. No keys. Point your terminal, your script, your curiosity at it and start querying. Reading live market data is all but elementaru.
Two (2) — The full API — Docs & Spec
For those who want the whole picture, the complete REST API documentation is published here: gosh-sh.github.io/dexdo — and the full DEX.DO documentation lives in the repository: github.com/gosh-sh/dexdo.
This covers the entire surface: account balances, position management (buying and selling full sets, claims), order placement, batch orders, cancellations. The trading and account endpoints require authentication—they’re described in the docs for integration purposes, which is a polite way of saying: builders, this is for you.
Three (3) — Want To Test The Full Trading API?
Here’s where it gets interesting. On Shellnet, anyone can request a Shellnet Block Manager license + Shellnet SHELL tokens. Deploy your own Block Manager and you unlock the authenticated trading and account endpoints—meaning you can place orders, manage positions, and test the full market lifecycle end-to-end. Not a sandboxed slice of it. All of it.
The path, in four steps:
Request a Shellnet BM license + Shellnet SHELL tokens in the chat: Request License/Test Tokens.
Deploy your Block Manager—documentation here.
Deploy the DexDo backend.
Explore the full API surface via the docs above.
Prefer code over curl? You can also trade on the DEX using the SDK library—first obtain the market and order book address from the demo API on Shellnet, then let the SDK do the talking.
Season 1: Trade Ahead Of The Market, Take Your Share
Season 1 of Dark Order is running on Acki Nacki Shellnet right now. (If a backend test is for builders, then Season 1 is for everyone.) The premise is simple: connect a wallet, be active, and your activity accumulates as points. At the end of the season, you claim—and your points convert into a reward.
How it works, in three moves:
Connect a wallet. The Acki Nacki Wallet is non-custodial, built on a seed phrase. Create a new one or import an existing one. No registration needed.
Trade and invite. Bets in PMP, trades in the order book, referrals—it all drips into your points.
Claim. At the end of the season, you reveal your activity and take your reward.
(Yes—on a dark exchange, even the rewards work by reveal. We’re consistent like that.)
What Earns Points
The full list of point-earning actions is public. The exact weights are not—that’s deliberate, and we’ll get to why in a second. Here’s what counts:
Bets in PMP. Place bets in prediction markets. Participation across different markets is what’s measured.
Order book trades. After a market freezes, trade in the book—both maker and taker trades count.
Function coverage. Walk the full flow: full set, different order types, claim. Counted once—a completionist’s badge.
Referrals. Invite people with your link. A referral counts when your invitee connects a wallet and makes their first activity.
One thing that deliberately does not count on Shellnet: trading volume. The tokens are test tokens—inflating volume with them would measure nothing. On mainnet, volume and market-making will be added to the list.
The Rules Of The Season
We wrote these to be short and to be kept:
Season 1 runs on Shellnet (the test network). Points are provisional.
The reward is in NACKL. When mainnet arrives, points convert into a NACKL allocation.
To take your reward, you claim at the end of the season — withdraw to a public wallet and confirm ownership.
The exact accrual weights are closed. This is anti-gaming protection. But what earns points, and the rules of the season, are fully public.
Rules never change retroactively against participants.
Farming gets cut. Self-trading and multi-accounts don’t count — we check at claim.
Actions have limits — a measure against bots.
Closed weights, open rules. You know exactly what to do; you just can’t reverse-engineer the meter. Which, if you think about it, is a very Dark Order way to run a season.
Where This Leaves Us
The exchange that hides everything just showed you something: a live backend, open docs, a full trading API anyone can test, and a season that pays attention—literally—to the people who show up first.
The read-only endpoints are open now. The BM license path is open now. Season 1 is accruing points now.
Query it, build on it, trade on it — and tell a friend, because that counts too.