Closed Beta Coming Soon

We’re big believers of building systems worth using. This design philosophy includes everything from execution speed to a delightful user experience and frictionless performance. As of now, all core features are in place. Our sleek orderbook supports market and limit orders using Metamask or your Ledger, all on the 0x protocol. Plus, our API is ready to handle large amounts of liquidity.

So what’s left? We’re making minor adjustments and performance testing to tweak our platform to pixel-perfection. To accomplish this, we’ll be sending out select invites to traders and crypto-influencers to test out our platform very soon. Stay tuned!

Podcast with Ledger Status

We joined Brian Krogsgard from Ledger Status, a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast, this month for an in-depth conversation on our approach and strategy in building The Ocean.

We have discussed DEXs (decentralized exchanges) many times on this show, and in this episode I’m happy to have a guest on who is building one. John Piotrowski is the CEO of The Ocean — a decentralized exchange that’s near launch, which they’ve built as a relayer on top of the 0x protocol. I went far deeper with John than I anticipated I would. We dug into what makes a DEX a DEX, and how they are approaching the ecosystem differently than other participants. For one, they are a hybrid model with off-chain order books. John believes deeply in the importance of deep liquidity on a proper order book system. His past is working at Goldman Sachs and elsewhere, directly with their trading operations. He’s aiming to bring institutional level liquidity to The Ocean, something that others have not been able to do.

For more insightful podcasts on an array of different topics, we highly recommend checking out Ledger Status’ entire podcast series.

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As a company focused on long-term success, we consider worldwide reach crucial. Mainstream cryptocurrency adoption is a global endeavor, and we can’t do it without the international community.

To ensure inclusivity, we’re collaborating with several translators and community managers to offer Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian language support at launch.

Ways to Get Involved

French, Spanish, and Portuguese are next on our plate. If you are interested in translating our dashboard and sign up, please send us a quick email at hello@theocean.trade with your preferred language and any projects that you have previously worked on.

and are next on our plate. If you are interested in translating our dashboard and sign up, please send us a quick email at hello@theocean.trade with your preferred language and any projects that you have previously worked on. Aside from offering some of the lowest fees in the game at public release, we’re also offering additional incentives to dedicated market makers. This starts with zero fees! If you’re interested in learning more, contact us at maker@theocean.trade.

Fiat-to-Crypto with TrueUSD

At this moment, DEX adoption is hindered by a handful of critical user experience issues. Fiat-to-crypto options remain absent, making onboarding difficult and cumbersome.

To address this problem, we partnered with TrustToken to deliver TrueUSD and fiat-to-crypto conversion to the DEX universe. At launch, our users will be able to (1) trade Ethereum and other tokens against TrueUSD, and (2) receive priority in redeeming TrueUSD for US dollars through the TrueUSD fiat exchange app.

On the Value and Governance of ZRX

We will allow traders on The Ocean to pay in ZRX or the native token because it boils down to choice and stake. We want to maximize the number of choices that users have on our platform — from what to buy, when to buy, which wallet to use, and how they want to contribute to our growth. And we, as a company, want a stake in the direction of 0x protocol development.

To explore this design decision, read our thoughts on ZRX written by our CEO, John Piotrowski.

What’s New?

And finally, here’s an aggregated list of all the news and content that we pushed out this month. Sit back, relax, and happy reading!

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Happy holidays to all our folks in the U.S.! Don’t forget to sign up and join our Telegram for launch in just a few weeks.

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