Serum (SRM) is both a cryptocurrency, and a decentralized exchange (DEX). Serum itself is a DEX they built on the Solana (SOL) blockchain.
The hope for Serum is to lower trading costs by using a blockchain DEX. For example, the developers claim Serum can lower trading fees by 60%. Serum tries to reduce expenses by giving 80% of fees to Serum Token (SRM) buy and burns.
The other 20% of the DEX fees to SRM stakers to pay them to maintain the blockchain. The stakers are people who…