0x is a one-stop shop to build financial products on crypto rails and enable faster trading, better prices and superior UX in web3 apps. 0x provides building blocks for developers and teams to grow their business, go multi-chain, and on-board users with ease.
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We are excited to share with you the new 0x — your one-stop shop for powerful APIs to build financial products on crypto rails.
Since we launched the first version of our marquee API, Swap, our goal has been to empower developers with the best tools so they can focus on what matters most: their users. We are excited to do this now at scale with a full suite of powerful APIs and the 0x Dashboard.
What’s new
📊 0x Dashboard: your new home base for all things 0x. Through the dashboard you and your teams can generate API keys for new projects, monitor and manage integrations, get access to new APIs and tap into more developer resources like our latest tutorials and guides. Get started, for free, in less than five minutes!
🧱 New building blocks: in addition to Swap API and Tx Relay API, we are launching three new APIs in Q3 — Token Registry, Tx History and a new version of Orderbook. Some of these APIs are currently in closed beta so please reach out if you’re interested in early access.
🎨 A new brand identity and website: 0x provides an overarching name that encompasses everything we plan to offer.
🔁 0x API is now Swap API: our flagship product, the liquidity and smart order routing API that connects developers to 100+ exchanges, has a new name too.
💬 Intercom support: better support for y’all! We are rolling out support via Intercom to a small number of users this quarter and will scale this out in the coming weeks. Our goal is to provide the best-in-class developer support in the market and this allows us to do it at scale.
🤖 AI-enhanced developer docs: our documentation now incorporates AI technology to give you an improved experience when looking for specific information or when you have a specific question in mind.
Our building blocks
Each API has been rigorously developed to help you (and your teams) build delightful products and on-board millions of users to web3. Here’s what you can do with each of them:
🔁 Swap: add crypto trading to your app on Ethereum and all major Layer 2 networks with ease. Connect to 100+ exchanges and provide liquidity for new tokens from day one using just one API.
⛽️ Tx Relay: simplify DeFi with end-to-end gasless transactions on Ethereum and Polygon. Abstract away the complexities of token approvals and gas, and let your users start trading with any token that’s in their wallet.
📈Orderbook: add limit orders to your app and give your users more trading options. Available on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon.
🧾Tx History: easily show your users their trading history in one place. We minimize the overhead of scraping and interpreting on-chain data.
☑️Token Registry: enrich your trading app with comprehensive and curated token metadata. Show your users only verified and trustworthy tokens.
Our APIs have facilitated over 52 million trades from 6 million end users representing more than $125B in volume traded. We love helping developers and teams expand their business, go multi-chain, onboard new users to web3 and build leading crypto apps like Coinbase Wallet, Robinhood Wallet, Metamask, Matcha, Zerion, Zapper, and more. We hope that we can help you and your team next!
Take Swap and Tx Relay for a spin and don’t forget to tell us what you are are building so we can showcase your app.
0x seems like a fantastic tool for developers looking to create financial products on the blockchain. The fact that it provides building blocks to go multi-chain and onboard users with ease is a huge advantage.
I'm excited about the potential for faster trading, better prices, and a superior UX. I think this product has a lot of potential and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to create financial products on the blockchain! 🚀
Congrats on the launch! Your product sounds awesome! I'm curious to know how 0x can benefit small teams or individual developers who are just starting to dive into the world of web3. Do you have any success stories or examples of how your platform has helped them achieve their goals? 🚀
Thanks @vera_ratovska! The Dev Advocate for 0x here, happy to help answer these.
To answer your first question - the world of web3 is vast, especially for those just diving in, and only getting larger. There's several layers of the stack to wrap your mind around, and as any space evolves, specialization is important. Here's a high-level look at the stack from the bottom up:
* Blockchain layer - MEV, consensus mechanisms, scaling solutions
* Protocol layer - Secured smart contracts
* API layer - Middleware that taps into the layers below. 0x provides a full suite of APIs for devs to easily tap into the layers below without needing to be protocol/smart contract experts.
* Application layer - Delightful, engaging, and relevant UI/UX for the next wave of users
Specifically, 0x offers tools to simplify the experience of building financial products in web3.
We are already seeing that more and more forms of value are becoming tokenized, and the trading activity settles on-chain. As this on-chain activity grows, the ecosystem, however, is become more fragmented. Devs and traders alike must navigate between blockchains, wallets, apps, browser tabs. Tokens, markets, and users are scattered across a diverse set of blockchain ecosystems and token liquidity is fragmented across dozens of DEX protocols, each with their own delivery mechanisms.
0x steps in to provide a suite of complementary APIs that solve the most common challenges when building in the space. We can confidently offer these tools because we have worked in all layers of the stack:
* Protocol layer - We started with the 0x Protocol in 2017 which is now the decentralized infrastructure that billions of $ of trades settle on (https://0x.org/post/0x-year-in-r...)
* API layer - We evolved to built the Swap API when we saw there was a need to help web devs more easily access the underlying markets (https://0x.org/post/announcing-0...)
* Application layer - Our team is the same one that brings you the dex aggregator, Matcha (https://www.matcha.xyz/). We dogfood all our APIs, so experience all the challenges our other integrators are going through first-hand, and can constantly improve our API tooling.
In short, we intentionally crafted a suite of APIs (Swap API, Tx Relay API, Orderbook API, Token Registry API) that work seamlessly together because nothing else like it exists in the market and we as builders felt the pain. Read more about our tools here: https://0x.org/docs
As for success stories, we've helped projects of all sizes. DeFi Saver, a one-stop dashboard for creating, managing, and tracking DeFi positions was one of our first integrators and we've been building along side them from the very start (https://0x.org/post/0x-ecosystem...). Phuture, a crypto index platform, uses the 0x Swap API to deliver the best prices when rebalancing its index and increase the number of tokens it can include in its index (https://0x.org/post/phuture-case...). We are trusted by other industry leaders such as Coinbase, dydx, Zapper and more. Check out all our integrators in our 0x Explorer dashboard: https://explorer.0xprotocol.org/...
Read more of the written case studies in the "Powered by 0x" tab here: https://0x.org/content-hub
The 0x DAO, of which we were the founding member, continues to provide grants to innovative projects. Read more about their work here: https://twitter.com/0xcommunityd...
Lastly, we actually have a livestream series where I interview projects building on 0x called "Powered by 0x"
* Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist...
* Season 2:
If you have any questions, our contact form is a great way to get in touch (https://0x.org/contact), we are more than happy to connect!
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