dYdX Chain is open-source, standalone blockchain software built by dYdX Trading, Inc. (“dYdX”). It’s based on the Cosmos SDK and uses the Tendermint proof-of-stake consensus protocol. It enables decentralized cryptocurrency perpetuals trading.
dYdX Chain is the underlying software used by a network to establish a dYdX Chain Deployment, to which users can connect wallets and trade perpetuals.

"Binance will list dYdX (DYDX)... and will open trading for DYDX/BNB, DYDX/BTC, DYDX/BUSD and DYDX/USDT... at 2021-09-09 02:00 (UTC)."

Binance Listing

"DYdX $DYDX Gets Listed on #KuCoin! @dydxprotocol | Pair: DYDX/USDT... Trading: 04:00 am on September 9, 2021 (UTC)"

KuCoin Listing

Kraken lists DYDX at 15:30 UTC with DYDX/USD and DYDX/EUR trading pairs.

Kraken Listing

"September 20-22 | New York Marriott Marquis... The summit gathers crypto leaders, operators, builders, and investors for three days of..."

Mainnet 2021

Coinsuper lists dYdX (@dydxprotocol) with DYDX/USDC pair at 14:00 (GMT+8).

Coinsuper Listing

Bitforex lists dYdX (@dYdX) with DYDX/USDT pair at 17:00 (GMT+8).

Bitforex Listing

"Tune in on Wednesday, July 13th at 12:00PM PST when we host an AMA with @AntonioMJuliano to discuss the changes to dYdX in v4."

Hong Kong Fintech Week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and online from October 31st to November 4th.

Hong Kong Fintech Week

Money Expo India 2022 from August 11th to 12th in Mumbai.

Money Expo India 2022

Mainnet 2022 by Messari in New York from September 21st to 23rd.

Mainnet 2022

WebX Asia in Tokyo, Japan from July 25th to 26th.

WebX Asia

Interop Summit 2023 in Denver, Colorado from February 27th to 28th.

Interop Summit 2023

"We're still planning to open source dYdX V4 by the end of 2022. dYdX V4 represents a large and critical improvement to the dYdX..."

DYdX V4 Open-sourced

Nebular Summit in Paris, France from July 24th to 25th.

Nebular Summit

"We are thrilled to announce that the dYdX Chain public testnet is set to launch... at 17:00 UTC! "

Public Testnet Launch

Osmocon

"KBW spans one week delivering a world-class lineup of speakers, non-stop events and wonderful vibes."

Korea Blockchain Week

"... Aims to educate and inform the community about the latest developments, implementations, and visionary ideas."

CosmoVerse 2023 Istanbul

"We're still refining some features of public Testnet 2 and will now be launching on Monday, August 14th"

Public Testnet 2 Relaunch

"... How we're tackling it [MEV] on the dYdX Chain? Join our call with @SkipProtocol, @ChorusOne, @dYdXFoundation...," at 11 AM (ET).

MEV Call

"Web3Conf is India's first and biggest chain agnostic conference by GirlScript Foundation."

Web3Conf India 2023

Public Testnet 2 Launch

Mainnet 2023 in New York, New York, USA from September 20th to 22nd.

Mainnet 2023

Lock-up Extension

"The @dYdX app-chain is coming, and it will go full Interchain Stack by leveraging Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and #IBC... late September..."

App-chain

Co-founder and CEO Nudge . Co-founder Paradigm and Coinbase

Fred Ehrsam

Marc Boiron

EvgenyGaevoy

Sreeram Kannan

Founder of Aave.com and Venture Partner of Variant.fund

Stani Kulechov

DCF GOD

Matthew Graham

Nacho Trades

Retroactive Rewards

Future employees and consultants

dYdX employees and consultants

Trading Rewards

Community Treasury

Liquidity Staking Pool

Safety Staking Pool

Liquidity Provider Rewards

Investors

Sale Link

Airdrop

United States of America

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

Polychain Capital

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

CMS Holdings may also invest in early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects through private investments and strategic partnerships. They provide capital and support to innovative startups in the crypto space.

CMS Holdings

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

mgnr.io is a systematic proprietary trading firm that uses innovative quantitative research and rigorous engineering.

mgnr.io

Delphi Digital is a dynamic research-driven firm at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional finance. Founded by a team of seasoned professionals, the firm is committed to providing cutting-edge insights and strategic analysis in the rapidly evolving digital asset space.

Delphi Digital (Delphi Labs)

crunchbase info

Series C

Singapore

Three Arrows Capital

South Korea

Empowering mass adoption of the decentralized future 
through network building of the protocol economy.

Hashed

United Kingdom

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wintermute

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

DeFiance Capital

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

Series B

Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.

Bain Capital Ventures

1confirmation is a forward-thinking venture capital firm at the forefront of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Established in 2017 by Nick Tomaino, a visionary in the industry, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising early-stage projects that are shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

1confirmation

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

Fred Ehrsam is co-founder of Coinbase. He's been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine's 30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World.

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies. It has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff, and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

The firm consistsof a team of 15 investors and operators that are united by a quest to find the next generation of world-changing companies and deep respect for the founders who create them.

Craft Ventures

United Arab Emirates

Vy Capital is an investment firm that focuses on the internet and software industry. It was founded in 2013 by Alexander Tamas and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Vy Capital

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Kindred Ventures

Abstract Ventures

Series A

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.
Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Avichal Garg

Brian Armstrong

Jack Herrick

Scott Belsky

DeFi Capital is a Decentralized Finance investment fund.

DeFi Capital

RockTree Capital

The Spartan Group primarily focuses on investments in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain-related projects. They actively manage a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as other tokens and blockchain assets.

The Spartan Group

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology.

GSR Ventures

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

Taiwan

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

QCP Capital is a digital asset trading firm that provides digital payment token (DPT) services.

QCP Capital

Seed Round

Airdop

User Trading Rewars

Employees & Consultants of dYdX

Future Employees & Consultants of dYdX

Vesting info

Reddit

Github

Discord

LinkedIn

Youtube

Telegram chat

X (Twitter)

dYdX

Hastra AUTO

Genius

0x Protocol

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) crypto

Ali Yahya

HDF humble defi farmer

smolting (wassie, verse)

Redphone Crypto

avery.apt

Research Partner and Head of Research at Paradigm

Dan Robinson

0xMaki

Palmer

Santiago R Santos

DeFi Investor and Leads of Defiance.capital

ArthurOx Cheong

Mando

Jesse Walden

Kyle Samani

Tetranode

Max Bronstein

evan.sui

Imran Khan

maria

LilMoonLambo

Founder of Mythos Capital, Host of Banklesshq.com

Ryan Adams

Banteg

Keyboard Monkey

Eddy Lazzarin

DFarmer

Kmoney is a crypto content creator known for humorous takes on Web3, NFTs, and blockchain culture, blending memes with market insights.

kmoney

gmoney.9dcc.e uc0u964 h

Former Product Manager of Coinbase, Co-Founder Scalar.capital

Linda Xie

notsofast

olaf

Robert Leshner

Luca Netz

Degen Spartan

Ignas | DeFi

Mo Shaikh

Evanss6

SpiderCrypto

Darren Lau

Galois Capital is a crypto-focused hedge fund known for quantitative strategies and insights into blockchain markets and decentralized finance trends.


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