Hydro Protocol is evolving! How we are revamping our logo, website, and social platforms to reflect our progress and vision Hydro Protocol Follow Sep 11, 2018 · 3 min read

Upgrading For The Future

When we first emerged from the shadows and hit exchanges back in January, our team consisted of only a handful of engineers. DDEX (our first decentralized exchange) had a whopping 5 trading pairs. We were pretty small. Since then our team doubled in size multiple times, DDEX is one of the largest decentralized exchanges by trading volume, and we have multiple hydro-based relayers now operating. We have grown — a lot.

As our organization grew, it became apparent that the early-stage media strategy we had for Hydro was simply not going to be appropriate in the future. Previously we primarily wanted to keep a pulse (hey, we’re still here!), and a large portion of our information was focused on upgrades to DDEX. This made sense when DDEX was our only relayer and was a clear demonstration of Hydro’s capabilities. However, now Hydro Protocol’s scope has expanded beyond just DDEX: there are multiple relayers using our middleware, and we have additional liquidity tools, developer trading widgets, and exchange frameworks that will be released within the upcoming months.

It’s time to change things up a bit!

New logo and typography

Moving Forward

We now have significantly more ongoing projects, more partners, and our vision is becoming much more clear. Continually updating our community on small details for all of these projects would be a ton of information, and would likely start to feel more like spam than real content. With that in mind, our weekly updates will be changed to monthly updates going forward. This will allow us to update people on the “big picture” items, rather than the nitty gritty details. While DDEX will still release more detail-specific upgrades, Hydro Protocol’s social outlets will be quite a bit more broad going forward.

We are extremely happy with the progress our team has made so far. Despite the market’s “grizzly” state, we are still optimistic and excited for the future of the blockchain ecosystem. In addition to monthly updates on Hydro Protocol projects, we will also be releasing periodic articles discussing the areas of blockchain technology and exchange ecosystems that we believe are worth examining in greater detail.

Lastly, our website is getting completely revamped and moved. Hydroprotocol.io will be our main website going forward (still finalizing the new setup, coming soon!). We also have a wiki in the works to add more information and details for those interested in diving deep into the technology behind Hydro Protocol.

Decentralized Future

As mentioned above, we have a number of exciting projects in the works. The decentralized ecosystem has a number of challenges currently — the process of going from fiat to obtaining the token of a project you’re interested in is still riddled with pitfalls, scams, centralized entities, and complex terminology. Abstracting some of these challenges and complications away from users is absolutely necessary for creating a more easily adoptable decentralized future.

One of our latest projects, the Hydro Swap Widget, abstracts much of the difficulty away in decentralized trade for both projects (liquidity) and users (UX).

We are targeting these inherently difficult problems associated with blockchain ecosystems that both users and projects still struggle with. From liquidity, to terminology, to KYC. We’re extremely excited to release more details soon!

Learn more about Hydro Protocol

Thanks for reading and for your support! If you would like to learn more about Hydro Protocol, please check out and follow us on your social platform of choice below.

https://hydroprotocol.io *coming soon!