Unbundling "Exchange" category into subcategories

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Unbundling "Exchange" category into subcategories #90

Open coffeetimes opened 4 years ago

coffeetimes commented 4 years ago

Rationale

Category Exchange is broad and currently including centralized exchanges(CEX) and non-custodial exchanges(DEX). For projects that refer to these through Everest, it's better to separate DEXs(on-chain activity) and CEXs(off-chain API data).

Ideas

CEX(e.g. Binance, Coinbase)
DEX_AMM(e.g. Uniswap, Balancer, Sushiswap)
DEX_OrderBook(e.g. 0x, dYdX)
Aggregator(e.g. 1inch, Matcha, Totle)

CEX
DEX
Aggregator

yanivtal commented 3 years ago

Great suggestion. Do you think CEX is the best name long term? Or Centralized Exchange, Custodial Exchange, or something perhaps more human readable. I agree DEX has taken off as its own term and Decentralized Exchange is pretty long..

coffeetimes commented 3 years ago

I think "Centralized Exchange" is good at the moment. If the term is too long, "Exchanges" sounds also good.

Maybe in the future, "Custodial Exchange" would make more sense in my opinion. I'd like to hear other opinions in the community too.