Advanced Trading UI and Opportunities
Fireb0mb1
Always in the optic to attract frequent traders/whales to increase revenues, we could offer an "Advanced" mode for these power users:
* Candlestick charts, lower time granularity (1 minute)
* Limit/Stop orders. Aggregation might not make sense here, but for example 1Inch offers grants for integrations (https://1inch.io/foundation-grant-program/) and do have an API for their limit orders/orderbook (https://docs.1inch.io/docs/limit-order-protocol/api/).
* Maybe even leveraged trading through partners like dYdX or Perp? We could attempt to discuss with such platforms about advertising them to our users in our DeFi category. Or take advantage of their existing affiliate program: https://dydx.exchange/blog/affiliate-program
Perp had one but recently discontinued it apparently due to low usage of the program unfortunately: https://blog.perp.fi/reward-program-updates-6ee1b8c38f9d
Willy Ogorzaly
dang that is a bummer that perp is ending their referral program! it sounds like they may bring it back, but in a way that mitigates reward farming.
I wonder if their referral program is any different than the affiliate program they offered us. Regardless, there is an outstanding bounty offer for $100k for ShapeShift to integrate Perp (https://gov.perp.fi/t/proposal-integration-of-perpetual-protocol-with-shapeshift/546), hopefully still on the table. If we built the UI for perp, it should also work well for Synthetix on Optimism, DyDx on Cosmos, GMX on Arbitrum, and other similar protocols. If we're driving meaningful volume to any perp protocol, we should be able to monetize that somehow. Synthetix has a live rev share program at least: https://blog.synthetix.io/partner-volume-rewards-for-synthetix-perps-integrators/
Related idea: Has anyone built a perpetual futures aggregator? That could be interesting.. but also maybe not. Currently there seems to be 1 winner on each chain; on one hand it could be valuable to combine the new arbitrary message bridges (ie. Axelar) to enable users to abstract bridging & swapping into a single tx and enable users to seamlessly access the best perp liquidity across chains. On the other hand, the tradeoffs of added fees and latency may not be worth it. From a quick search I don't see anyone working on this yet.. seems worthy of some further exploration.