The Shift towards Decentralization and Vertical Integration in DYDX

Last week, one of Ethereum’s biggest L2-integrated dapps — derivatives giant dYdX — announced plans to depart Ethereum upon its upcoming v4 release. The destination? A fully sovereign blockchain on the Cosmos Tendermint consensus protocol, built using the Cosmos software development kit.

We brought on dYdX, Founder, Antonio Juliano to discuss this announcement and so much more.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 7:00 The Announcement 14:38 Creating the Best Product 25:10 Decentralization 33:50 The Risks 37:55 Wallets 40:07 Staking Validators 46:05 Monetary Policy & Latency 54:44 Tradeoffs with Ethereum 59:55 Legal Reasons 1:06:00 Real Centralization 1:14:20 Bridging & Composability 1:24:00 Closing

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Antonio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano 

Announcement: https://twitter.com/dYdX/status/1539607062291877889 

Why Would a dApp Leave Ethereum Right Now? https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/dydx-cosmos-ethereum? 

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