Is Orca custodial? Who holds your funds?
No. Orca is listed as non-custodial: your funds stay in a wallet you control, not with the venue.
Checked 2026-10-17 · 3 sources- Users swap and hold LP position NFTs in their own Solana wallets.
- Non-custodial does not mean risk-free. Smart-contract bugs, phishing and malicious approvals can still lose funds.
- We list 1 reported incident for Orca on its legit check.
Sources: Orca docs index: fee tiers and trading fee distribution · Orca docs: FAQs (interface fee, audits, ORCA launch) · Orca docs: How to swap. The venue's own page wins if it disagrees with ours.
Orca
DEX · 0% round trip. Orca is a Solana concentrated-liquidity AMM built on its Whirlpools program, used for token swaps, liquidity provision and pool creation. It is merging with Loopscale under the Formation name while the Orca DEX continues to operate.
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