What’s new at expand.network

Expand Newsletter | February 2024

A message from Demo

A recurring theme in my recent discussions has been the challenges DeFi users face when their trading infrastructure includes smart contracts. While smart contracts are a powerful technology and offer unique capabilities, they are still in their infancy and come with tradeoffs and risks that should be seriously considered.

We spend a lot of time thinking about how to build scalable infrastructure in DeFi, and it’s become clear to us that overreliance on smart contracts is a weakness in many common approaches. When smart contracts are used without a clear advantage over alternate technologies, they introduce unnecessary complexity, latency, increased costs, and security vulnerabilities.

It's paradoxical that in our pursuit of reducing dependence on centralized intermediaries in DeFi, we often end up reintroducing centralization and intermediation through smart contracts.

To build scalable and secure infrastructure, it’s important to weigh the risk of smart contracts and ask the question of whether another intermediate hop is needed, or if it would be cheaper/faster/less risky/more operationally reliable to communicate directly to an endpoint using an API.

Demetrios (Demo) Skalkotos
CEO, expand.network

✨ New Features ✨

Data Features

Derivatives Trading Data
With our recent integration of dYdX v4 testnet, users can now source data for orders, positions, historical PNL, transfers and more.

Historical Staking Rewards
Source historical staking reward details for a specific user address. Currently available for Avalanche - P Chain.

Historical Wallet Transactions
Source historical transaction details for a given wallet address, including ERC-20 transfers, native transactions, and internal transactions. Currently available on Avalanche - P/C/X, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Fantom, Optimism, Arbitrum, Cronos, Base, and TON.

Portfolio Management Endpoint for Near
Track and manage crypto assets on Near through one API.

Portfolio Management Endpoint for Solana
Source detailed information for fungible and non-fungible tokens in a given Solana wallet address, including names, balances, symbols, addresses, and USD equivalent prices for all current holdings.

Track Trades & Positioning on Ethereum DEXs
Source trade positions and transactions associated with a specific user address across all Ethereum DEXs. It provides comprehensive details including transaction type, block number, transaction hash, logs, decoded methods, and signatures.

✨ New Integrations ✨

New Chain and Protocol Integrations

TON

Transact and source data from the TON blockchain using the expand.network API.

Source quotes, compare pricing to other DEXs and DEX aggregators, and transact with 0x.

zkSync coming soon

zkSync will soon be available on expand.network where users can scale Ethereum with cutting-edge ZK tech.

STON.fi coming soon

With this integration, users will be able to swap tokens, provision liquidity, and source data from STON.fi.

Compound V3 coming soon

In addition to our Compound V2 integration, users will soon be able to lend, borrow, and source data for Compound V3.

New Wallet Integrations


And all wallets built with the TON SDK! Expand now supports all wallets built with the TON SDK, including TonKeeper, MyTonWallet, and many more. Users can now use the TON wallet of their choice when transacting with TON protocols.

	We will soon be supporting Binance Web3 Wallet

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✨Announcements✨

New Partnership with Marcum

We're excited to announce our partnership with Marcum LLP. The integration of the Expand API into Marcum's accounting infrastructure helps them to reconcile on-chain transactions, tackling the challenge of data fragmentation head-on.

Expand.network Now Live on Alchemy dapp store

Expand.network is now officially listed on Alchemy Dapp Store! Our unified API connects you to all of DeFi. Seamlessly transact and source trading data from 100+ distinct DeFi endpoints.

✨Come Meet Us At✨

ETH Denver
	We're excited to invite you to meet the expand.network team at ETH Denver! We're partnering with DFNS and Snickerdoodle Labs to bring you an unforgettable Web3 Brewery event. Don't miss out on this opportunity to dive into the world of Web3 with us. Secure your spot by signing up for the event here.
To set up a meeting with the team, please contact mel@expand.network