Prioritize recent content
Top Results1426 results
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 was founded by Antonio Juliano, a former software engineer at Coinbase and Uber and they have raised...
1 Min
AMM
Apr 2021
Reserve & Celo - Part 2
...https://storage.googleapis.com/members-portal-bucket/uploads/2020/07/Research-Report-Reserve-Celo-Part-2-...5-31-2020.pdf” title=”Research Report – Reserve & Celo – Part 2 – 5 31 2020″]...
1 Min
DeFi
May 2020
Axie Part 2 - Gamer Economics
Axie floor prices increased from 0.03 ETH to around ~0.066 ETH, and MEO 2 Axie prices rose from 0.084...flat throughout the month while Mystic 1 Axie floor price grew from 5.5 ETH to 9.99 ETH and Mystic 2...
9 Min
Games
Jul 2021
Layer 2: Rollups
In this report, we look at how the Layer 2 ecosystem is shaping up and dive into the varying rollup solutions...
1 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2020
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...
3 Min
DeFi
Sep 2021
Infrastructure
Jun 2019
The Shift to Layer 2: A Potential Disruption Catalyst for the AMM Ecosystem
...and then encourage liquidity providers to move over from the main pool to the layer 2 equivalent....Ideally a user executing a swap on the ETH-USDC pool on Unipig (Uniswap fork on the Optimism layer 2)...Ideally as a user, regardless of whether interacting with the ETH-USDC pool on layer 1 or on layer 2,...
5 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Nov 2020
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...
4 Min
Perpetual Futures
Aug 2021
DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
The graphic above shows that in six months, perpetual DEX volume share went from 2% to 2.1%, with total...Even if DEX volume share remains at 2%, dYdX will generate $270M and $539M annually for $5T and $10T...This approach mitigates front running and has allowed Synthetix to lower trading fees to 2/6 bps on major...
40 Min
Derivatives
Jul 2023
Finding the Fun in Fundamentals #2 - Wemade
The token briefly ran 50% ($2-$3) in the weeks leading up to release before continuing to chart a seemingly...
18 Min
Gaming
Jun 2025
WTF Is Anoma? Part 2: WTF Are Intent-Based Apps?
Part 2 – Applications In Part 1 we have overviewed Anoma’s intents and seen how they compare to Ethereum-style...“Part 2: WTF are intent-based apps?”...has 2 sections; First, we take a look at some existing intent-based apps across various verticals that...When we think of orderbook-based DEXs in crypto we think of dYdX. dYdX has stood alone (although with...
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2023
Coordination, Public Goods and Crypto (Part 2)
...mathematical demonstration of the sub-optimality of the 1p1v system in provisioning public goods, see page...
11 Min
Asset Management
Nov 2020
Coordination, Public Goods and Crypto (Part 2)
...mathematical demonstration of the sub-optimality of the 1p1v system in provisioning public goods, see page...
11 Min
Asset Management
Nov 2020
Zetachain Part 2: The Opportunity Ahead for Omnichain Applications
App Building Opportunities Zetachain’s ability to support smart contracts and connect to heterogeneous chains – including the Bitcoin blockchain – […]...
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2024
BAYC Gets BendDAO-ed & Internet Game Season 2
Internet Game is an interactive entertainment platform that is launching its Season 2, titled “Bear Market...There are 2 parts to the games....Part 2 is a live finale with 3 multi-player games hosted by Gmoney & Leah Lamarr.
11 Min
NFTs
Aug 2022
DYDX On the Move
A lot of people were talking about the impending supply overhang from the DYDX token unlock, originally...The dYdX team recently announced this token unlock would be pushed back to Dec. 2023, and further clarified...DYDX price action responded accordingly, breaking above a pretty important threshold set on the monthly...
1 Min
Perpetual Futures
Jan 2023
2/17 Analyst Call: BTC, Terra, Cosmos, NXM, NFTs, and Aggregators
Topics Covered: 2:05 – MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Blueprint with Kevin Kelly 5:45 – Bitcoin ETF, Funds...
1 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2021
GMX Open Interest Overtakes dYdX
Open interest on GMX has grown over 100%  YTD,  overtaking dYdX whose open interest hasn’t increased...Despite this, dYdX still trades at fully diluted valuation over two times higher than the GMX. dYdX FDV...In terms of fees, GMX has also outpaced dYdX over the last year, as dYdX trading rebates dwindle.
1 Min
Derivatives
Apr 2023
dYdX Public Testnet Live July 5
dYdX’s public testnet is live and producing blocks (https://testnet.mintscan.io/dydx-testnet) and will...includes a larger number of validators (40+) and will be the first time for users to get a feel for dYdX...The public testnet is ahead of schedule, and if all goes well we could see the mainnet for dYdX v4 before...
1 Min
Derivatives
Jun 2023
Large Unlocks Incoming, DOT and DYDX
Come December, DYDX is facing a significant unlock event that will boost its circulating supply by 75%...As mentioned in our recent report on dYdX, “Employees, investors, and consultants were allocated 50%...of the DYDX token supply altogether. 30% of these tokens were originally scheduled to be unlocked in...
2 Min
Macro & Markets
Oct 2023