Will dYdX Lead The Breakthrough of DeFi Derivatives?

[Jessie0830]

On the evening of September 8, dYdX airdrops the highly anticipated project token DYDX and lists it on the exchange. Once token price has stabilized on secondary market, the airdrop is valued at over $10,000 per person, which makes this airdrop the most valuable yet in DeFi.

A “Silver Spoon” Beginning

DYDX has a total supply of 1 billion. At its current price, the market values the dYdX project at over $15 billion fully diluted valuation and a market cap of over $750 million. Given dYdX is the leading platform in the DeFi derivatives space, the $15 billion valuation may be justified. But how did dYdX get here? Let’s take a quick look at its history.

As early as 2017, Antonio Juliano, the founder of dYdX, having graduated from Princeton University majoring in Computer Science, already had an impressive resume. Antonio worked as a software engineer at Coinbase, Uber, and database Mongo DB. In addition, other early team members of dYdX all came from famous companies such as Google, Coinbase, and Uber. Nevertheless, Antonio said in an interview that it was an “adventure” to be building out the dYdX project.

In addition to the founder’s insights to the potentials of distributed ledger systems, the architecture design of the dYdX system contributed to the success of dYdX. The project successfully closed a $2 million seed round in December of 2017, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain, and a $10 million Series A round in October of 2018, led by A16Z Crypto and Polychain. In the following rounds, dYdX attracted many more top tier VCs including Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital.

Run by a seasoned technology team and backed by well-known investment institutions, dYdX gone through a rapid development phase in 2020. Total aggregated trading volume from spot, margin, and futures trading grew a 40-fold, from $63 million in 2019 to $2.5 billion in 2020. It is worth noting that the trading volume of perpetuals continues to increase as a percentage of the total trading volume. In the last month of 2019, perpetuals account for 41% of total trading volume.

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[Daltonik]

dYdX surpassed the spot markets of Coinbase for the first time in terms of trading volume, according to CoinGecko, over the past 24 hours, the volume of derivatives trading on dYdX amounted to $6.537 billion. The corresponding indicator of the Coinbase spot markets is $3.088 billion.

[bixiiMaphi321]

dYdX has long been known and popular among overseas DeFi circles. dYdX firmly believes that decentralized perpetual contracts are an important step forward for institutions and market makers to enter the market, and of course suitable for DeFi. Currently, the trading volume of crypto perpetual contracts is twice as high as that of the spot market and it is still growing rapidly. It is expected that this trend will also apply to the DeFi sector, and the trading volume of decentralized perpetual contracts will quickly surpass all DeFi spot transactions. dYdX is committed to the development of decentralized finance and its goal is to introduce the security, transparency, and inclusivity of open source software into the world of finance. At the same time, In a Distrusted Way Lending and Leveraged Transactions are fundamental breakthroughs in financial markets. DYdX offers the full range of technologies to make this a reality.

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