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Exchanges

Links to the best articles, videos and podcasts about Crypto Exchanges.

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A History Of Crypto Exchanges: A Look At Our Industry’s Most Powerful Institutions

"Cryptocurrency exchanges were the first and remain the most important businesses built around crypto protocols. Their job is to make the business model of belief work."

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Exchanges Are Open Finance

"The largest profit centers of crypto—the exchanges—are generally under analyzed from a strategic lens, especially given their systemic importance to the space as a whole."

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What is Coinbase?

"Coinbase is one of the biggest and most trusted crypto exchanges out there. As well as providing digital wallets, its platform allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies."

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Crypto Exchange Insurance — what about a mutual instead?

"Not your keys, not your funds."

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What is Bakkt?

"Bakkt is the brainchild of the New York Stock Exchange owners. By creating a cryptocurrency exchange with US government oversight, Bakkt wants to make trading crypto assets as normal as trading shares."

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EXCHANGE REVIEW - APRIL2019

"Our review focuseson analyses that relate to exchange volumes, andincludes ananalysis of the highest volume producing jurisdictions, as well as market segmentation by exchange fee model."

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‘Flash Boys’ Trading Bots Are Running Wild on Crypto Exchanges

“Flash Boys”-like trading manipulation is rampant on certain cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a paper from researchers at Cornell Tech and several other universities.

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Breaking Down the “Flash Boys” DEX Trading Bots Bloomberg Article

"It’s great to see this type of thing picked up by larger media outlets, but while it highlights a lot of interesting points, some of the concepts in the bloomberg article are pretty vague and oversimplified. For example, the main front running problem with DEX’s discussed only applies to a specific type of DEX — others have already solved this."

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A Comparison of Decentralized Exchange Designs

"Decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, have emerged last year as a solution to crypto’s bloody history of centralized exchange hacks. The main innovation is allowing users to trade directly from their wallets without having to trust an exchange to custody funds and implement robust security practices."

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Why are there commissions on the cryptoexchanges?

"What are the main factors which impact the fees formation on the Deposits and Withdrawals of funds to/from the crypto-exchange?"

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22 Ideas to Explore with 0x

"Inspiration to move the tokenized economy forward"

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Detailed Report Into The Cryptocurrency Exchange Industry (From CryptoCompare)

Abstract: We present an in depth report into the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem. The market is broken down by almost all the possible characteristics (Exchange type, exchange region and trading pairs). The robustness and authenticity of exchanges are evaluated using metrics such as web traffic, average trade sizes, order book depth, security polices and price reliability. The report was produced by CryptoCompare and uses the CryptoCompare’s Aggregate Pricing Index (the CCCAGG), for much of the analysis.

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Trustless Market Orders

“With the advent of the decentralized economy, we are seeing a wide array of trustless trading platforms like DEX’s, bulletin boards, and relayers that allow wallet-to-wallet trading through the use of cryptographically-signed orders. These orders express the willingness to swap some fixed amount of one token for a fixed amount of another.”

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The ecosystem of Decentralized Exchanges

The deep analysis of the cryptocurrency Decentralized Exchanges. Exchanges, Peer-to-peer Trading, Dark Pool Exchanges, Open Protocols for Decentralized Exchanges analyzed.

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Volumes on Most Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Fake or Inflated: Study

"Earlier this month, cryptocurrency trader Sylvain Ribes investigated into the volumes of most small-scale cryptocurrencies and discovered that the trading volume of OKEx, the fourth largest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world, is mostly inflated."

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Token Summit II - Understanding Decentralized Exchange

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Cryptocurrency Exchanges Can Be Pretty Sketchy Places. The Solution? A Blockchain, of Course

A beginner-friendly introduction to the decentralized exchanges from MIT Technology Review.

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A beginner’s guide to 0x

An introduction to 0x - “an open protocol for decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.”

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