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dYdX Foundation releases H1 2026 Ecosystem Report
The dYdX Foundation has published its dYdX Ecosystem Report - H1 2026, a semi-annual look at trading activity, protocol development, governance progress, and ecosystem growth across the dYdX Ecosystem. The full report is available from the Foundation.
dYdX community votes to wind down 15 markets
dYdX has put up an on-chain vote on whether to wind down markets for ASTR, AVNT, AXS, BEAM, BERA, CAKE, DRIFT, ENS, FARTCOIN, FLOKI, MET, PEOPLE, POPCAT, SYRUP and XDC. The vote ends August 7, 2026 at 07:12 UTC.
dYdX community votes on raising x/gov quorum
The dYdX Foundation has created an on-chain governance vote asking the community whether to approve increasing the quorum parameter on the protocol's x/gov module. Voting closes August 6, 2026 at 03:47 UTC.
Antonio Juliano returns as dYdX Trading CEO
After a six-month hiatus, founder Antonio Juliano resumed the role of CEO, citing the need for founder-led leadership at the exchange.
Founder Antonio Juliano steps down as dYdX Trading CEO
Antonio Juliano, founder of decentralized exchange dYdX, stepped down as CEO of dYdX Trading; Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen was named to take over.
dYdX Chain (v4) mainnet genesis on a standalone Cosmos Layer 1
The dYdX Operations subDAO initiated mainnet genesis of the dYdX Chain, a fully decentralized, open-source Cosmos-based proof-of-stake chain running an off-chain order book, marking dYdX's migration off Ethereum.
DYDX governance token launches with a retroactive airdrop to past users
dYdX enabled transfers of its new DYDX governance token, letting roughly 64,000 past users claim a retroactive airdrop (7.5% of the 1 billion total supply). The token had been deployed to Ethereum on August 3, 2021.
dYdX raises $65 million in a Paradigm-led Series C
dYdX closed a $65 million Series C round led by Paradigm, joined by CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, Electric Capital, HashKey Capital and StarkWare Industries.
dYdX v3 launches on Layer 2, built on StarkWare's zk-rollup
After about seven months of development, dYdX launched its Layer-2 version using StarkWare's zkSTARK/ZK-rollup technology; its Layer-1 perpetuals were wound down around April 20, 2021, with users reopening positions on Layer 2.
dYdX launches its first decentralized perpetual contract market, BTC-USDC
In private alpha, dYdX launched the first decentralized perpetual contract market, BTC-USDC with up to 10x leverage, built on open-source smart contracts deployed to Ethereum mainnet.
dYdX founded by Antonio Juliano to build a decentralized derivatives protocol
Ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer Antonio Juliano created dYdX with the goal of building an open-source, community-governed decentralized exchange for financial derivatives on Ethereum.