The Dexible Core Team Meets in D.C. for Team Intensive #1
+ a Summary of the Magical Things the Dexible Team Has Been Whipping Up
The core team met in Washington, DC between August 10th to August 13th. We discussed many things including:
- Dexible v2.0 features
- Dexible admin dashboard capabilities
- Order execution improvements
- Company vision
Our team has worked remotely since its inception in the summer of 2019, so not seeing one another is the norm. But some of the team members, like Mike Powers and myself, hadn’t seen each other in over a year and a half due to being in different time codes and the pandemic. It was also the first time I’d met my teammate Damon Brown in person.
This was an interesting moment in our journey. We’ve been heads down on v2.0 of Dexible all through spring and summer. This work on v2.0 has meant a prolonged development cycle, where the core team has remained pretty silent across all our channels about announcements. It’s hard on the team.
A prolonged development cycle can sometimes feel like marching around the Meditteranean and over the Alps, or sending your Baltic Fleet to the Strait of Tsushima, or hopping on a train across Russia to get back to your home country and avoid a war zone. You spend a lot of time building, waiting, anticipating.
The hour of release is close, and we are super excited to release what we’ve been working on into the wild.
The Dexible Team Intensive in Washington, DC really helped with team morale. We were able to talk to each other offline — which is huge because, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, long Zoom or Google Meet calls are exhausting. It’s nice to be able to share a moment with your fellow teammate who you’ve been working alongside and be able to share a laugh and a moment or an appetizer at lunch.
Sentimental reminiscing aside, Dexible is coming along very well and we’ll have lots of updates for you soon.
To put it bluntly, everything about the first version of Dexible has been reworked from the ground up. You’re going to be using a whole new application. Additionally, we’ve added tons of complexity to our own internal backend and infrastructure. Dexible is sitting on a mountain of IP just waiting to hit the ground running.
In its new form, I have little doubt it will prove to be the most sophisticated, professional-grade execution platform for DeFi. There will be a more formal announcement for the launch of the new version, but you can access the latest TODAY. You can get a little taste of what I’m talking about by reading the differences between v1.0 and v2.0.
We’re entering a sort of Soft Launch and public testing phase for September. We have this here so direct referrals can find us, but we know we want to zero in on some issues before a more coordinated hard launch.
We have a new marketing webpage that’s in development. The landing page is complete, but also in the works are an API-specific page, a Company/Careers page, and a Community page. There’ll be more to follow. It’s so important to have an up-to-date website, it’s the first thing people interact with whenever you engage with them in conversation. So many people used the Dexible Alpha as the anchor for our conversations — sometimes people even use the old BUIDLHub app as the anchor. A new webpage should be front and center for the conversations we’re about to have, and it does so much better at storytelling than before.
We totally rebuilt the web app user interface. We even ejected from the React starter kit and mucked around with WebKit, which is another way of saying: we made it a lot harder on ourselves, but the end product is going to be insane. Now it’s quite intuitive, feels like you’re trading with a CEX, and FAST. It’s currently split between an Order Execution Cockpit and an Order Logs page.
You can also browse the User Documentation here which provides more detail to the above. The user docs help give the lowdown on how it works.
The contract audits have been completed. You can find the smart contracts and audit report on a public repo here.
The JS API SDK is live and functional (Python version available soon). Browse the SDK documentation for the latest scoop. These API SDKs are currently more powerful than the UI, because they offer deeper order policy customization that the UI just hasn’t created the components for yet, but may require a bit of code to start.
Discussing the company vision was a significant chunk of our time in DC. I can’t share everything now nor does it make sense to, but I will say talking about vision and the product roadmap is exhilarating when you’re together and surrounded by bright minds. Difficult multi-faceted, lingering questions can get cleared up in a few moment’s time, even while new questions start to enter the mind. It’s that extraordinary sense that you’re on the verge of something fantastic, and that transition from possibility to feasibility is something of a high.
What I can say is that many companies and teams exist somewhere on the spectrum between two goalposts: centralized or fully decentralized. They have to rely upon some forms of centralization whether it’s their UI, their infrastructure, or some off-chain database (ex: OpenSea, 1inch, Dexible v2.0, etc.). It’s an uncertain place to remain. What this leaves us with is a chance to reevaluate our vision — if we so choose.
Stay tuned.
P.S.
This piece detail just the tip of the iceberg. Get ready for formal launches and announcements soon.
We’re ramping up our content production at Dexible too. Have a burning question about DeFi asset management, EMS’s, or another aspect of automating your DeFi trading?
Drop us a line in the comments or in our chats and we’ll do a deep dive to unpack it. For example, “What’s the difference between Eden and Flashbots?”, “What’s the state of NFT Asset Management?”, or “Ways to Compare Liquidity Between Tokens” — these are all questions that could be unpacked.
You can also join our Telegram or Discord chats where we’ll be unpacking the latest and answering all your questions.
^ logos for above, why didn’t we have them before. Fixed now though.
