0x is a decentralized finance (DeFi) open protocol which operates on the Ethereum blockchain. It has the objective of creating and managing a decentralized network which allows its users to operate new types of markets without having to rely on traditional financial intermediates.
As such, 0x’s users can create their own markets for crypto assets that represent whichever form of value they desire. Tokens can thus represent physical objects, property, shares or even other crypto assets.
ZRX, 0x’s very own custom crypto, is used as an incentive for users to host and/or maintain the 0x’s market order books.
The 0x protocol in which users can buy and sell tokenized assets needs essentially three types of users to operate its market:
1. Makers: who are the users that provide liquidity to 0x’s order book and place orders for which they wait to be matched.
2. Takers: who are the users that take liquidity from 0x’s order book and place orders that are immediately matched with existing ones.
3. Relayers: which are those who maintain the protocol and are facilitate communication between the order books and transactions
By making a trader, a user is submitting orders with a cryptographic signature to a relayer who, in turn, will post them to the order book for a set fee. Orders must specify the token that’s being traded, the maker’s desired price and an expiration date.
When a user makes a trade, makers submit cryptographically signed orders to a relayer who then posts it to the order book for a transaction fee. These orders can contain the token being traded, desired price and expiration date.
As an order is ready to be processed and executed, smart contracts match the takers’ and the makers’ orders and transfer the tokens between them. Transactions happen on the blockchain.
ZeroEx Inc was founded in 2016. Its co-founders were Will Warren and Amir Bandeali.
The following year, a public sale was held and an estimated $24 million US Dollars (in Ether) was raised. Several other venture capital firms support the project.
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