Hello again from everyone here at 0x! This month, the Core Team gathered in Lake Tahoe, California for our first ever team retreat. It was great having everyone in one place, and some of us met in-person for the first time after months of Slack conversations!
Another first this month was the ZRX community vote on ZEIP-23. Over 5 million ZRX were cast from 300 unique Ethereum addresses, with a 99% approval rate. ZEIP-23 adds support for trading bundles of assets and should go live on mainnet on March 11.
Developer Experience
The 0x Core Team developed three extension contracts that enable projects to offer new forms of crypto trading to their users. We deployed a Forwarder Contract, Dutch Auction Contract, and created templates for a Whitelist Contract. Any developer can create their own custom extension contracts that connect with the 0x protocol to meet their exchange requirements. Check out our documentation to get started and let us know about additional extension contracts we should build to meet your exchange needs. Learn more here.
We’ve also been hard at work building a variety of other improvements:
- We merged an alpha version of the Trade Execution Coordinator contracts. We’re working on a TEC server implementation designed to complement 0x/launch-kit, which we hope to release soon.
- We started working on adding support for ERC-1155 tokens through a new AssetProxy contract
- We updated many of our libraries and utils to Solidity 0.5.3
- All 0x libraries now support the latest Web3.js providers as well as EIP-1193 providers, and are backwards compatible
- Python tooling now supports calling contracts with arrays of structs, such as our
Exchange.batchFillOrders()
Infrastructure Credits + MM Program Update
We started working with AWS, Digital Ocean, Facebook Ads, and Alchemy to offer free infrastructure credits for any businesses building full-time on 0x. On that note, our Ecosystem Acceleration Program has given out over $1 million in grants to 24 teams so far, and is still accepting applications!
Following the Market Maker Program launch in January, we started working with a group of new market making teams over the past month to onboard them into the 0x ecosystem. This program aims to bring deeper liquidity to important markets, and in the process learn what tools, infrastructure, and incentives we can implement to further deepen liquidity on 0x longer-term. If you’re interested in learning more, you can start trading today by checking out the tutorials, or applying directly to the program.
0x Hackathon
We also wrapped up the 0x + CoinList hackathon! Thank you to all who participated. We were thoroughly impressed by the quality and diversity of projects. The hackathon gave us an opportunity to learn how we can improve our documentation and tooling to better serve developers integrating 0x. If you signed up for the hackathon, we’d very much appreciate it if you could fill out this brief survey.
We are hiring!
Finally, we are looking for a mathematically-minded Research Engineer to focus on DEX scalability, who will work closely with the StarkWare team. If you’re interested, please apply here!
