will be tokenizing ad slots as ERC-721s and selling these via transparent auctions, seeking to directly connect content creators with advertisers. Microsponsors is being built because users’ personal data is being abused by advertisers, with the founder coming from a background in private search and ad-blocking at DuckDuckGo.
is one of the first decentralized exchanges based out of India, with a Lightning Network integration built in as well.
launch the Fabrx Builder Platform, which enables anyone to seamlessly integrate web3 into their application. You can deploy and manage a 0x Relayer through the Fabrx API, so if interested get in touch with the team on .
just launched, an NFT marketplace based out of . Due to regulations out there, they are focusing on NFTs as these have less regulatory baggage in .
Craig from has been a longtime community member, running his website showing all things 0x data out of Australia. He’s agreed to help out and dive deeper into data this month (4/20–5/19) — volume for 0x v2 has increased 61.74 percent from the previous month to $17,278,168.50. There have been 29,984 trades (an increase of 50.5% from the previous month) coming from 1,493 unique addresses
Top maker addresses: , , , ,
Top taker addresses: ,, , ,
ERC-20 Order Books
Relayers that resemble traditional centralized exchanges in the assets they support.
- Radar Relay and Bamboo Relay both integrated Fortmatic, an SDK that hoping to ease the on-boarding of new users to dapps. The Fortmatic flow resembles Stripe Checkout or Plaid, with the user inputting a phone number that is connected to a . is a good overview of Fortmatic from the ETHDenver hackathon back in February
- STAR BIT also added support for the cold featuring multi-modal authentication, combining biometric info, a public key, and a private PIN
- Bamboo Relay has been testing out our new model of relayer, which enables shared liquidity while also offering off chain cancellations for market makers. For all things Bamboo, read their
- Ethfinex Introduced a super-simple, one-click, on-site option, with data kept in a browser’s local storage, and a decentralized OTC service, eliminating the need for escrow and reducing fees to 0.02%; they also awarded a to a freelance developer for updating the Python client of Trustless to 0x v2
NFTs
These projects list both ERC-20 and ERC-721 assets, with a focus on the crypto collectibles and gaming space.
- GU Decks made individual card pages more user friendly, in addition to some backend improvements. Though Gods Unchained cards are still not tradeable, people have been listing lots of cards on GU Decks. If you have , you could buy Tyet, Heir to the Sky
- BoxSwap launched an , with a great writeup around Cheese Wizards. They also have a trivia night in their Discord every Thursday at 10AM and 10PM EST, which I’ll be attending
- Two interesting NFT related possible additions to 0x v3: that enable 0x orders to be made for arbitrary properties of NFTs, and the , a way to ensure the state of NFTs
- I always love Brian Flynn’s NFT newsletter, and he had a post about how Nike
- SuperRare, which enables rare digital art to be bought and sold using 0x, had a post titled , digging into not only how the team wants to be a marketplace for art, but also how they’d like to be a platform to collect and display it
Prediction Markets
Companies built on Augur and 0x, utilizing Augur for prediction market capabilities and 0x for moving trades off chain.
- is something I’ll definitely be watching — right now it looks like Biden and Sanders are in the lead for who will get the Democratic nominee, but of the vote too
- BlitzPredict has tons of sports and eSports betting up, and I like perusing their leaderboards to see what they’re betting on. has 49 wins and 23 losses in baseball, I nominate him as the new Augur oracle
- Video from the that digs into the Augur ecosystem
Portals
Projects that feature relayer functionality as part of a suite of other services, like DeFi integrations and capabilities.
- imToken launched a redesign of their Tokenlon relayer, available as a beta in the imToken . imToken also included the very cool feature of being able to buy assets from other blockchains in the app, like ATOM from the Cosmos chain. The user performs a normal trade on 0x, but instead of the purchased token, the user receives a virtual token: vATOM. The machine then watches for the ERC-20 transaction and sends the ATOM or EOS on its native chain. At every step, the transaction is verifiable, unlike a custodial model like wBTC
- Ambo has been developing a new privacy architecture for its app, working on solutions for keystore management, gas relaying and addresses. Ambo’s focus is on UX, trying to make crypto as easy as possible for the average person, meaning problems like gas relaying and keystore management are top of mind
- , announcing integrations with popular wallets like Coinbase in addition to 0x ecosystem company Zerion
Infrastructure
These companies provide valuable services to the 0x ecosystem, but may not have exchange functionality or an order book.
- OpenRelay now , and is gearing up for a pretty cool release in the next few weeks
Links
Antonio from dYdX had a highlighting the decentralized lending landscape. Antonio makes the case that dYdX differentiates itself from the rest of the projects listed by offering the ability to trade assets in addition to its borrowing capabilities.
A really easy to understand about Augur.
, its ambitions and challenges. are also working on an IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) platform, and Capital has some on the phenomenon.
Pro listed the ETH / DAI pair, then .
Facebook plans to launch .
from A16Z’s Benedict Evans on our reliance on Mechanical Turks.
that are in the process of getting finalized.
US intelligence looking into “.”
Fun Stuff
A with balding Elon Musk.
, if you’re not Superhuman.
Why is so funny.
Really enjoying the book suggested to me by our recruiter Zack.
This 6 part is probably the most impactful thing I’ve watched this month.
from Japanese house producer Shinichiro Yokota.
I’ve really enjoyed the for my dose of Game of Thrones memez.
Much love,
Rahul
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Published at Sat, 25 May 2019 00:14:57 +0000
