3.1.0. Four Types of Decentralised Aggregators
The decentralised aggregators can be classified into four types as follows:
(1). General Aggregators
These market aggregators seek to display all cryptos in the decentralised market system. They are usually linked to the blockchain explorers. Popular examples are:
• EdaFace Aggregator (https://listing.edaface.com/)
• Poocoin (poocoin.app)
• Messari (messari.io)
(2). DeFi Aggregators
These are aggregators for Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and they allow users to invest, trade, lend, borrow assets and manage their DeFi portfolio across multiple accounts and track their assets in real-time with live price updates and push notifications. Popular ones are:
• 1inch (app.1inch.io/#/1/swap/ETH/DAI)
• Zapper (zapper.fi)
• Plasma Finance (plasma.finance)
• Zerion (zerion.io)
• Matcha (matcha.xyz)
Interestingly, some of these aggregators allow you to interact with different smartchains from one platform. For example, Matcha’s crypto trading platform aggregates liquidity from multiple sources, including 0x, Kyber, Uniswap, Oasis, Curve, and others. Thus, on Matcha you can trade with cryptos on Ethereum, Binance, and Polygon smartchains at once.
(3). Cross-Chain Aggregators
These are newer generation of aggregators that aim to aggregate all Dex and Cex in one platform.
A popular example is Orion Protocol (orionprotocol.io)
(4). NFT Aggregators
Popular examples are:
• EdaFace NFT Marketplace (https://nft.edaface.com/)
• OpenSea (opensea.io)
• Rarible (rarible.com)
• OpenOcean (openocean.finance)
• Binance NFT Marketplace (binance.com/en/nft/home)
The NFT aggregators are called marketplaces and their uniqueness is discussed in Course 5.