Antonio Juliano — an experienced programmer with a background in blockchain technology is the founder and CEO of DYDX. He first entered the crypto space in 2015 upon getting a job as a software engineer at Coinbase — a cryptocurrency exchange platform. As a Princeton University graduate with a degree in computer science, Antonio Juliano embarked on his entrepreneurial journey and founded dYdX in early 2017 .

Zhuoxun Yin is head of operations at dYdX. Не previously worked at Nimble — a social sales and marketing CRM and Bain & Company — a consulting service. Zhuoxun Yin studied at University of Queensland and has a bachelor's degree in commerce.

dYdX is a cryptocurrency exchange that combines advanced financial tools with decentralization. The platform supports margin trading — a financial product enabling investors to increase their exposure to digital assets through leverage. dYdX’s isolated margin allows users to assign particular funds in the account as part of a trade, while cross-margin utilizes all the assets a trader keeps on the platform. Perpetuals — a type of futures contract that does not have a predetermined selling date, is also available for trading on dYdX. The exchange currently offers a maximum of 25x leverage on synthetic assets with no expiry date.

Upon depositing funds into the account, dYdX users automatically begin to earn interest, as their assets are entered into the global lending pool specific to each cryptocurrency. The platform guarantees security for lenders by ensuring that borrowers have enough collateral in their account at all times. Borrowing on dYdX enables users to instantly acquire any asset available on the platform using funds in their possession as collateral for the loan. dYdX also features an order book architecture in contrast to automated market makers such as Uniswap.

dYdX Layer 2 increases scalability of the network through use of a form of zero-knowledge rollup — zkSTARKS. The technology receives proofs, while validating a batch of transactions off-chain. These proofs are then sent back to the blockchain, where they are verified by a smart contract. zkSTARKS makes it possible to remove expensive computations from the mainnet with no sacrifices in decentralization.

Together, with trading and liquidity provider rewards, dYdX introduces retroactive mining benefits, allowing the platform to show appreciation to historical users and incentivize them to trade on layer 2 protocol. The holders can stake their tokens in dYdX’s safety and liquidity pools. While the safety pool provides the platform with a safety net in case of a shortfall event, the liquidity pool serves to attract high quality market makers.

There is a total of 1,000,000,000 DYDX minted, which will be distributed over a five year period, starting on August 3rd 2021. - 50.00% of the supply will go to the community; - 25.00% will be used as trading rewards; - 7.50% will be set aside for retroactive mining rewards, - 7.50% will be assigned for liquidity provider rewards; - 5.00% will go to a community treasury; - 2.50% will be dedicated to users staking USDC to a liquidity staking pool and - 2.50% to users staking DYDX to a safety staking pool.

27.73% will be set aside for past investors. 15.27% will go to founders, employees, advisors, and consultants. 7.00% will be kept for future employees and consultants of dYdX.

Since the launch of $DYDX, there have been several governance proposals that have resulted in changes to the initial allocation. Currently, the allocation includes 50.0% (500,000,000 $DYDX) to the community as follows:

DYDX is an ERC-20 token deployed on the Ethereum mainnet. dYdX’s layer 2 scaling solution is built on Starkwire’s ZK-STARKS technology and relies on Ethereum blockchain to verify transaction proofs.

When Will DYDX Trading Begin?

DYDX token first became available for purchase in September 2021.

DYDX is currently available for purchase on the following exchanges: Binance, Huobi Global, KuCoin, Gate.io, Kraken, Poloniex, Uniswap (V3), ​​OKEx, LBank, Sushiswap, Crypto.com Exchange, 0x Protocol, XT.COM, BitZ, WhiteBIT, 1inch Exchange, WOO Network, CoinDCX, Deepcoin, Cryptology, BKEX, DigiFinex, Pionex, BW.com, BitMart, AEX, ZBG, MEXC, BiONE, Bibox, Hoo, Hotbit, Decoin, Bitrue, HitBTC, Tokocrypto, Mandala Exchange, CoinW, BigONE, ZT, AOFEX, WBF Exchange, CoinBene and Bitget.

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