OpenOcean (DEX Aggregator) Funding Proposal

Name of Project

OpenOcean

Proposal overview

OpenOcean a DEX aggregator on Harmony providing users the most efficient swaps on Harmony-based assets. OpenOcean’s algorithm optimizes trading for the best returns based on multiple parameters, including better price, lower gas fee, lower slippage, and optimized routing to maximize final returns.

We would like to propose the following 3 trading programs on OpenOcean in partnership with Harmony and leading Harmony projects. As we have successfully organized similar trading campaigns previously, it has brought new users to the network, helped existing blockchain users trade with maximum returns, and increased trading volume significantly which has continued to increase resulting in new campaigns and farms on leading blockchain DEXes.

Our product is fully developed and ready to go live anytime. We are live on 17 chains total (including Harmony) with 150+ liquidity sources on one site. Currently with 410k active user, we are aiming to attract 5k new users from campaigns. We need $80k to do both trading campaign and referral transaction fee rebate program. Since we are an DEX aggregator, we’d want you guys to help us connect all DEXes on Harmony chain so we could co-announce the launch of OpenOcean. Besides that, co-marketing with Harmony team would also be really helpful for us to grow faster on chain.

Hence, we would like to request for 80k USD worth of $ONE to allocate for the following trading program rewards.

1. Co-DEXes Trading Competition on Harmony

Request amount: $30,000

Partners: We will invite Harmony based DEXes projects who’re interested in joining the campaign. They are TBA.

Campaign details (To be confirmed)

Campaign Period: 3 weeks- 4 weeks

Campaign Rules:

  • For the following two campaigns, traders must have a total trading volume exceeding $200 USDT equivalent.
  • Must trade on OpenOcean Harmony, the route must be going through DEXes we are collaborating with.

Campaign I: Trading Competition — $20,000 worth of $ONE as reward pool

  • The rewards will be distributed based on the rank of the trading volume.

Campaign II: Lucky Draw — $10,000 worth of $ONE as reward:

  • Randomly select 200 participating users to reward $ONE.

2. Co-OpenOcean API/SDK/Widget Projects Trading Competition

Request amount: $30,000

Partners: We will invite Harmony based projects who’re using OpenOcean swap function API to join the campaign. They are TBA.

Campaign details (To be confirmed)

Campaign Period: 3 weeks- 4 weeks

Campaign Rules:

  • For the following two campaigns, traders must have a total trading volume exceeding $200 USDT equivalent.
  • Must trade on projects using OpenOcean API, the route must be going through OpenOcean.

Campaign I: Trading Competition — $20,000 worth of $ONE as reward pool

  • The rewards will be distributed based on the rank of the trading volume.

Campaign II: Lucky Draw — $10,000 worth of $ONE as reward:

  • Randomly select 200 participating users to reward $ONE.

3. Referral Program Transaction Fee Rebate

Request amount: $20,000

Campaign Period: ~ 90 days or until hard cap is reached

Campaign Rules (To be confirmed):

  • For each transaction that a referral’s recipient makes, referrers receive a 50% rebate of their referral recipient’s trading fees, while referral recipients receive a 50% rebate of their trading fees

Proposal ask

$80k Grant

Metrics for success

Partnership with DEXes on Harmony

Partnership with projects using OpenOcean API swap function on Harmony

Transaction Volume: $10M

Number of new users: 5k

Number of transactions: 10k

External links

OpenOcean Classic trading: https://openocean.finance/classic

Open Ocean Pro trading: https://openocean.finance/pro

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenOceanGlobal

Discord: https://discord.gg/cxK6CCYcGp

Telegram: https://t.me/OOFinance

Docs: https://docs.openocean.finance/

Everything you posted looks pretty strong. Here’s some of their data: OpenOcean | DappRadar

I think this might bring some nice TVL to Harmony , worth giving it a shot.

Having a DEX aggregator (think Paraswap and 1inch) is one of the final DeFi primitives / lego blocks for Harmony. I’m personally super excited to having as many DEXes participate as possible with OpenOcean, in order to help have a one-stop shop to swap as many HRC-20 tokens as possible, with as little slippage as possible and at the best rates!

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Hi @Oliver,

You’re preapproved while we review the Metrics for Success and gaining clarity of your marketing campaign.

Thank you

Looks like a great, fully fleshed out product. I am surprised, however, that with only 4 replies and no community to speak up on Harmony currently that this wasn’t discussed more or given time for more visibility before the pre-approval.

Would love to see this project on Harmony, but even moreso would I like to know what the new grant procedure is.

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