Why Ethereum (still) Matters: w/ Cindy Wu Founder@OpenOcean, Yiran Growth@ DyDx

Please join us for a virtual meetup on why Ethereum still matters, and a dive into the most cutting edge dex and dex aggregator technologies with Cindy Wu from OpenOcean and Yiran from dYdX.
With increasing challenges to the viability of the Ethereum network, and legitimate concerns about congestion and transaction throughput ahead of Eth2.0, we will have an open discussion about the challenges and solutions and expectations of the largest most widely adopted blockchain application ecosystem in the world: Ethereum.
We will also delve into the rich defi ecosystem that has both create opportunities and frustrations as the value of it's transactions and liquidity has grown.

Cindy Wu, Co-founder and COO of OpenOcean. Cindy used to work for RBS as strategy manager, 3M as M&A manager and a well known Private Equity fund as senior investment director. Cindy found her interest in blockchain investment back in 2017. Cindy graduated from Master in Advanced Finance program from a top 10 business school.

Yiran, Growth at dYdX. Yiran used to work at Facebook as an engineer and developed a strong interest in the blockchain technology and decentralized culture. She has helped building the Ethereum community both at EthFans and SF Ethereum since 2017. She is an early adopter of DeFi projects as well and is now helping dYdX growing to the next stage.

About OpenOcean:
OpenOcean is the first full aggregation protocol that aggregates mainstream DEXs on public chains and mainstream CEXes. As a full aggregator, OpenOcean will continue to aggregate other mainstream assets such as yied, derivative, lending and insurance products.
OpenOcean currently aggregated mainstream DEXes on public chains such as Ethereum, BSC, Ontology, and Tron and also centralized Exchange Binance. With the help of their intelligent order routing and in-depth optimization of intelligent routing algorithms, OpenOcean can help users trade at the best price and lowest slip.

About dYdX:
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange that currently supports perpetual, margin trading, and spot trading, as well as lending, and borrowing. dYdX runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and allows users to trade with no intermediaries.