After seven years of building a top crypto trading platform as a centralized entity, ShapeShift began a new journey, launching the ShapeShift DAO to create a borderless, self-custodial, multi-chain financial system built on open, decentralized protocols. We airdropped our governance token, FOX, to over one million past users and community members and started anew, with the goal of helping billions achieve financial sovereignty.

The first step in this journey was replacing the legacy, centralized versions of ShapeShift with new versions architected for decentralization. 

Send, receive, trade, buy and sell, and earn yield across a growing number of chains with the open-source ShapeShift web and mobile apps. The following chains are currently supported: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Avalanche, Cosmos, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Thorchain, Bitcoin Cash

Going forward, the community can add more chains, or even better, chains can now add themselves.

ShapeShift aggregates top DEX protocols from across chains into a single interface, enabling you to access the best rates across the highest number of pairs. 

0x, CowSwap, and THORChain are all currently supported. CowSwap aggregates 0x, 1inch, and Paraswap, which aggregate over 50 of the top DEXs on Ethereum. Osmosis and more DEXs are coming soon.

We've integrated 8 wallets into ShapeShift including ShapeShift Native Wallet, KeepKey, Metamask, Tallyho, Portis, XDefi, Keplr, and WalletConnect (which supports 170+ wallets).

Buy and sell over 50 digital assets across 10 chains with a wide variety of payment methods.

Banxa, Gem, Juno Pay, Mt. Pelerin, and Onramper are all currently supported, and Onramper aggregates Moonpay, Wyre, Xanpool, Mercuryo, Indacoin, Coinfy, BTCDirect, UTORG, and Transak.

Stake FOX, Cosmos, Osmosis or deposit into our integrations with Idle Finance and Thorchain Savers Vaults.

We worked hard for just over a year, to get the new open-source ShapeShift, app.shapeshift.com to parity with all of the core functionality and features that users of beta.shapeshift.com and ShapeShift’s iOS and Android apps know and love. We're happy to say, we've achieved this goal—and then some!

We’re excited to aggregate the best decentralized bridge protocols into a single interface and evolve our bridging functionality and UI/UX until it truly feels “invisible. First, users will be able to bridge assets between EVM chains and Cosmos zones. Then we’ll add bridging for more chains and expand to support arbitrary messages and contract calls with token transfers, enabling bridging and swapping with a single transaction, and more.

ShapeShift will provide the most comprehensive view of your portfolio organized in the most digestible way, including balances and DeFi positions across chains. We think Zapper and Zerion have done a great job if displaying DeFi positions on EVM chains, and we plan to match this and expand this functionality to other chains and protocols, such THORChain and Osmosis.

We plan to buidl the best UI/UX for lending and borrowing, while also aggregating multiple protocols. Users will easily be able to find the best rates available for the asset(s) they would like to supply and borrow.

We’ll start by covering the essentials: the ability to view and transfer NFTs in your wallet. We’d also like to link each NFT to a marketplace (or marketplace aggregator) that offers affiliate revenues, and eventually integrate marketplace aggregators so users can buy and sell NFTs directly from within ShapeShift.

The best part of all of these features? They’re free to use. ShapeShift never adds fees on top of decentralized protocols. However, these protocols really appreciate the value ShapeShift adds, so although it doesn’t cost users any extra, many protocols share a portion of the revenue generated from user deposits with the ShapeShift DAO.

To round out of vision of becoming the best, all-in-one decentralized, open-source crypto platform, we want to reward our users with FOX tokens, just for doing what they do — trading, staking, buying crypto - everyday actions that earn revenue to support the DAO will in turn, reward our users.

Not only is this a sustainable way to both reward users and decentralize ShapeShift governance, but it can make ShapeShift the best way to use a growing number of protocols. This is a recipe for powerful network effects, in which each integration and each user makes the ShapeShift network stronger, solidifying our position as the ultimate interface.