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Radar Relay, the peer-to-peer trading platform built on the 0x protocol did a respectable $100M in volume in 2019. This however is down from the dizzying highs of 2018 where in certain months, Radar Relay facilitated up to $60M. In this interview, Radar CEO Alan Curtis speaks candidly about the current state of the DEX landscape that features lower volumes ($5-7M a day) and more competition. He draws attention to the current “space race” taking place between Kyber Network and 0x to aggregate liquidity, how he’s seeing an inbound of more automated and professional traders and how he expects to see more centralized exchanges experimenting with DEX models. He also opens up about the high cost of compliance and how Radar has managed to create a compliant DEX by US regulatory standards.
More about Radar
RADAR is best known for RADAR RELAY, but has recently been expanding its portfolio of products. It now has REDSHIFT, which bridges payments between the Bitcoin Lightning Network and other blockchains such as Ethereum. They've also built ION, which services to educate and onboard users to the Lightning Network. Their latest project, DEPLOY is a node operations platform that helps developer spin up and maintain blockchain infrastructure. You can find more information about the various product offerings on radar.tech,
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