Part 2: Decentralized Exchange in 2019 w/ 0x Founders Will Warren & Amir Bandeali - (Ep. 0063)

This episode is the second of a two-part conversation with Will Warren and Amir Bandeali, co-founders of 0x (which issues the ZRX token), an open-source protocol that powers the decentralized exchange of tokens on Ethereum.

This interview is part of a series with exchange operators. We've interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance CFO Wei Zhou, Ivan Poon from Switcheo, Alex Wearn from IDEX, Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX, John Jansen from Deribit, and Mario Lozada from Liquid.

My conversation with Will and Amir is split into 4 chapters:

- Chapter 1: Decentralized exchange before DEXs

- Chapter 2: A short history of DEXs and 0x

- Chapter 3: The current state of DEXs and 0x

- Chapter 4: An exploration of the future

In this episode, we finish chapter 3 and cover chapter 4.

We discuss:

Ways that 0x relayers can compete for users

How 0x Mesh enables a more efficient marketplace

KYC and AML on DEXs

The introduction of bridge contracts in v3

Lesser-known use cases for 0x

Why DEXs are suited for security tokens

The potential of prediction markets like Augur and Gnosis

Launching a 0x relayer in just a couple of minutes

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