Based on the data at hand, the founders and investors behind Delta Exchange—Balani, Gupta, and venture firms like Coinbase Ventures—have no ties whatsoever to the 2018 Deltaexchange project. There’s no overlap in names, profiles, or funding trails. Delta Exchange stands as project, zeroed in on centralized trading, whereas Deltaexchange 2018 was DeFi DEX.
DeFI DEX?
The difference is in the domain names, though. The first “delta exchange” that I knew about was running on a smart contract and was one of the first places we would trade shitcoins back in the day. It was known as Etherdelta. They had their issues, got “hacked”, got charged by the SEC, got a fork known as folkdelta and went on a downtrend.
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