dYdX
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The dYdX Foundation will be using this latest fundraise to continue hiring and retaining talent
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Stride will airdrop up to 100,000 STRD tokens to holders who liquid-stake their DYDX with Stride in the first 120 days
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As technology improves, we take a look at some of the achievements made in DeFi innovation this year
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DYDX supply will climb by up to 80% after the Friday unlock, but a couple factors make a massive sell-off appear unlikely
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User funds are not affected by the attack, but the DEX’s insurance fund lost around $9 million, dYdX founder Antonio Juliano says
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As the perpetual swaps chain began sharing fee revenue with stakers, some took issue with the feature coming weeks before a major unlock and allowing locked tokens to be staked
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High volume and high speed — two desirable characteristics that rarely find themselves in the same room as blockchain technology
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Minimizing MEV and leveling out the playing field starts with transparency, a new research report contends
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Cosmos will finally have its own native stablecoin, with Circle partnering with crypto startup Noble to deploy USDC directly to the ecosystem
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A slew of suspicious tokenomics is stirring accusations of predatory intent. What’s signal and what’s noise?
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Bitcoin platform NYDIG reportedly laid off 110 employees despite recent capital raises
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The Office of Foreign Asset Control sanctioned Tornado Cash and 45 related Ethereum wallet addresses Monday, prompting exchanges and issuers to begrudgingly comply with laws
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Blockworks exclusive: DYdX Trading is also working on the next iteration of its native protocol
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The expansion is part of the exchange’s plan to be fully decentralized by the end of 2022
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The investment will be used to “continue investing in the next generation of crypto companies and protocols,” the company’s Co-founders Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam wrote in a blog.
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A futures-backed BTC ETF appears to be on the cusp of approval, implied volatility in the options market hints that a big move is near.
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Bitcoin is up nearly 12%, $AXS up 54%, Global energy shortages spread to the UK and the White House discusses stablecoin regulation
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Blockworks chats with Starkware co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson to get a sense of where things are going in the race to clean up Ethereum’s crowded pipes.
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