Dear Hydro Community,

Welcome to the third week of May! We’re excited to share a productive week for the Hydro team with you all.

Thanks to all of our users, partners, and fellow developers for your support as we continue to grow.

New Partnership | MF Chain

DDEX is very excited to announce its partnership with MF Chain this week. MF Chain is building the most cost-effective cryptocurrency payment ecosystem that rewards both the consumer and the merchant. We look forward to the future success for both MF Chain and DDEX.

HOT on New Exchange

Hydro Protocol Token (HOT) is now listed on Bitgogo.

Read more about HOT on coinmarketcap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hydro-protocol/

Product & Development

DDEX, the first Hydro Protocol based 0x Relayer, has made a lot of improvements over the past week:

New UI design completed — will launch very soon

The markets are now sort-able by 24-hour volume, token symbol, price, and 24-hour price change

Added the latest token price on the browser’s page title

Added trade warning notifications for unreasonable orders

Added Japanese as a language option on UI 2.0

Added API and token listing portals to the new landing page

Decentralized Data

Below are some statistics on historical decentralized exchange transaction numbers:

1. DDEX increases market share on DEX Tracker & remains #2 on Etherscan’s DEX tracker

This chart is from https://etherscan.io/stat/dextracker — it leaves out some “dex’s” based on their current infrastructure not registering as decentralized

Numerical breakdown ( https://etherscan.io/stat/dextracker )

2. DDEX reached the 2nd most mentioned Ethereum Dapp on Twitter

Moving onto a weekly analysis of trading volume, specifically for 0x relayers:

7-day analysis from https://0xtracker.com/

In the past week on DDEX, we have seen increases in the following user-based statistics:

Total number of logged in accounts: +15% Approve/WRAP/Unwrap transactions: +19% Buy/Sell transactions: +18% Accounts with 1st transaction: +15% Accounts with 1st Wrap ETH: +14%

Again, we thank all of you for supporting and trading with DDEX. Our growth is largely due to the continued support from our amazing community.

Hydro in Conferences

New York | Blockchain Without Borders Summit 2018

Bowen Wang presented at the Blockchain Without Borders Summit 2018 in New York, giving a speech about Super Node election mechanisms.

Coins and Cocktails NYC meetup with Hydro, IOST , Nirvana Capital, and 8 decimal Capital

Meet up with 0x Team

Co-founder of the Hydro Team, Bowen Wang, met with 0x CTO and Director of Operations to talk about 0x Protocol V2 updates.

0x V1 smart contracts will remain usable after the V2 launch to allow relayers and users to migrate to the new smart contracts. They are also working on the next version of the Standard Relayer API that will incorporate more V2-specific data about orders and tokens.

Meet our new members

Physics Ph.D. candidate from Peking University

Hantao Jia, the former product manager from Wanchain, with 8 years product development & marketing experiences in the leading software companies. Jia also served as the advisor for Chainfund, a Swiss based blockchain fundation.

Upcoming Events

Blockchain Festival Vietnam 2018

The Hydro Team will attend the Blockchain Festival Vietnam on May 24–25, 2018.

Blockchain Festival gathers key players in the Blockchain ecosystem from around the world to explore, discuss and study Blockchain technology. Topics covered in this international conference include technical developments and latest industry trends in the Blockchain industry. If you are attending the conference, please reach out to meet our team!

Discounted tickets are available using our Promo Code:

PROMO CODE: DDEXHI

ETH Buenos Aires-May 25–28, 2018

The Hydro Team will be in Argentina toward the end of May. We will be presenting at ETH Buenos Aires, which is an Ethereum hackathon starting on May 25th, 2018. It is an opportunity to work alongside the developers, thought leaders, advisers, and companies who are making the infrastructure and applications that will power the future.

Keep an eye out for our team at additional conferences throughout the world. Stay tuned!