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DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
DYDX: The DYDX token has been an outlier to this trend....Currently, with dYdX v3, all trading revenue flows to dYdX Trading, Inc....The 150M DYDX unlock was pushed back to December 2023, giving the dYdX token ample time following the...MEV on dYdX.
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Derivatives
Jul 2023
dYdX
Summary dYdX is a decentralized derivatives exchange for perpetual swaps and margin trading....$300M in total trading volume already on its cross margined perpetuals running on Starkware’s Layer 2. dYdX...SPV Terms dYdX is raising $65 million at a $215M equity valuation and an implied $430 million fully diluted...
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AMM
Apr 2021
PBOC Signals Support, dYdX Flips Coinbase
dYdX Flipped Total Coinbase Volume While dYdX continues to dominate the DeFi perps market, it also recently...A big contributor to this is the nature of dYdX’s trade mining rewards structure. dYdX token rewards...Perp DEX Tokens Shine In addition to breaking records for trading volume, the $DYDX token hit a new...
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DeFi
Sep 2021
A Quick Look Into dYdX's Growth Post-Token
The Effect of Farming Incentives dYdX’s total volume increased from about $10 mn a day to over $250 mn...This growth can be attributed to the recent DYDX token launch and traders attempting to farm DYDX rewards...data tells us how many addresses interacted with the exchange, and to what degree they are active. dYdX...
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Perpetual Futures
Aug 2021
Market Note: DeFi's Resurgence?
DYDX The Weekly View dYdX had been stuck in a range since May of last year. 2023 has been a bit of...However, if dYdX is able to conquer the current resistance zone, the bulls will be targeting $6.91-$7.83...Unless dYdX manages to break out (resistance being 2.93 and the 6.30-6.90 area), the next target would...
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2023
Ribbon Expands to Options DEX With Aevo
While we can point to the success of dYdX as a blueprint for perpetuals, or GMX for synthetic margin...It offers a hybrid off-chain order book and on-chain settlement DEX, similar to dYdX v3....If you’re familiar with dYdX’s current infra setup, this is nothing new.
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Options
Feb 2023
WTF Is Anoma? Part 2: WTF Are Intent-Based Apps?
Li.Fi / Socket Aggregators OpenSea / Blur NFT Marketplaces CoWSwap / 1inch Fusion DEX (Spot) dYdX...dYdX While we’ve explained how intents are not just limit orders, then can of course be just limit orders...When we think of orderbook-based DEXs in crypto we think of dYdX. dYdX has stood alone (although with...
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Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2023
Governance Digest
Active Votes The Bancor community is deciding on whether to whitelist a DYDX pool on the DEX....Active Votes The Bancor community is deciding on whether to whitelist a DYDX pool on the DEX.
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DAO
Oct 2021
Are Infinity Pools the Next Big Speculation Primitive?
This forfeits the composability that makes options such a powerful tool. dYdX creates a CEX-like experience...spot price to index against perp contract prices, advanced order types, and off-chain matching engine. dYdX...Therefore, Infinity Pools will likely have slightly higher fees than major competitors like Synthetix, dYdX...
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AMM
Mar 2023
Re-Evaluating The Decentralized Derivatives Landscape
For this reason, dYdX’s model doesn’t need much elaboration....Most of the time, dYdX funding and pricing is comparable with CEXs....So it seemed natural to be skeptical of dYdX’s ability to scale. dYdX is built on a zk-rollup powered...20 bps for taker fees, with added discounts for DYDX token holders.
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Perpetual Futures
Jun 2022
Do Fundamentals Matter in Crypto Markets?
dYdX has generated revenue to the tune of ~$54M in the last 180 days....This revenue is generated via trading fees on the dYdX derivatives exchange....However, all of this revenue goes directly to dYdX Trading Inc and not to anyone else....Tokens were issued to traders, market makers, and stakers in the dYdX insurance fund.
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DeFi
Sep 2022
Oasis TVL, Balancing Balancer, ZK Landscape Update
ZKRs have been around for a few years, but these have been dominated by app specific use cases like dYdX...dYdX has by far been the most used L2 app to date, regularly doing >$1B in trading volume per day...While dYdX has an impressive $450M of protocol revenue over the past year it’s come at the expense of...
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Layer 2 / L2
Jun 2022
Vega: The Most Comprehensive On-Chain Exchange
Uniswap is the most liquid on-chain spot market; dYdX is the most liquid on-chain perpetual futures market...at decentralized asset exchanges have been rather focused on either spot or one type of derivative. dYdX...A Short Case Study: dYdX vs Vega For the sake of comparison, let’s put this model up against dYdX’s perpetuals...
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Perpetual Futures
Feb 2022
Arbitrum Odyssey Beings, Top NFT Collections, Intro to My Pet Hooligan
...docs.looksrare.org/guides/selling-nfts/conditional-listing — LooksRare (@LooksRare) June 23, 2022 dYdX...V4 to Be Built on Cosmos-SDK We’re excited to announce that dYdX V4 will be developed as a standalone...🔗🎉 — dYdX (@dYdX) June 22, 2022...
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Layer 2 / L2
Jun 2022
Vega Protocol Update: Evaluating Value Accrual
...up the Competition In our initial post, we discussed the architectural differences between Vega and dYdX...But we also higlighted that Vega’s scope as a full-stack exchange is much larger than dYdX (a perpetuals...No other on-chain exchange comes close to dYdX in terms of notional volume....Currently, any revenue is earned by dYdX Trading, an incorporated entity.
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Spot Exchange
Feb 2022
An Update on DeFi Perps
In this piece, we’ll compare dYdX and Perpetual Protocol’s recent activity in greater detail, since they...A Quick Refresher Although it lived on Ethereum’s base layer for much of its life, dYdX was migrated...So while Perpetual Protocol facilitates more volume per day, dYdX has a larger user base.
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Perpetual Futures
Jul 2021
Cheap Gas, DAO Updates, & DeFi Perps Plunge
January 2022] [Excerpt from our Monthly Chartbook] When it comes to decentralized perpetuals (“perps”), dYdX...Meanwhile, its native token (DYDX) is down more than 70% from its all-time high and has struggled amid...The reason for dYdX’s poor performance is in part attributable to the lack of value accrual mechanisms...
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Stablecoins
Feb 2022
Gho is a Go, and Sushi Chef Troubles
TokenomicsDAO publishes an article on dYdX’s token....DYdX has voted to simplify the current reward scheme and to send 25% of the trading rewards to the dYdX...Instead, dYdX will reallocated those rewards tokens to the treasury, which the DAO can use for grants...
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DAO
Aug 2022
BAYC Flips CryptoPunks, NFT Search Trends, & Derivative DEXes Slow
Slowdown on Shaky Markets Volume on derivative DEXes has cooled off as market conditions remain shaky. dYdX...Being built on StarkEx also gave dYdX an edge over its competitors with cheap gas and trading fees, more...However, as dYdX rewards reduce, it will be worth watching how volume holds up.
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NFTs
Dec 2021
Do Airdrops Hurt More Than They Help?
...airdrop, we have seen a number of high-profile airdrops that have rewarded early adopters, including dYdX...While the dYdX airdrop was valued closer to $800M at its launch, any user with over $100k in trading...Airdrop Design Airdrops started by retroactively rewarding users for their behavior (trading volume on dYdX...
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DeFi
Jul 2024