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Permissionless Markets Research
Heading into v4, the dYdX Chain will enable permissionless listing of new markets - similar to Uniswap's pool listing model but for perpetual markets. With that comes complicated questions and design mechanisms to mitigate risks, improve user experiences, and incentivize liquidity provisioning. To help us dig through these questions, Chaos Labs will be conducting research to deliver a clear framework outlining the design and requirements to enable permissionless listings.
Chaos Labs
Funded
Research
v4 Governance on Cosmos Research
Ahead of the v4 migration, a lot of questions are being asked around the impact on governance and the current delegate structure of dYdX. The Flipside Crypto team will be leveraging lessons learned from both Ethereum and Cosmos based protocols to produce insights for the dYdX protocol. The deliverable will include thoughts around ways to transition delegates and existing governance frameworks to the v4 Cosmos chain.
Flipside Crypto
Funded
Research
LP Rewards Formula Optimization
The current liquidity provider rewards formula includes a few different parameters for scoring providers on their quotes. This research will be exploring methods of optimizing these parameters to encourage better liquidity and improve the efficiency of the LP rewards program. The most significant update will be to the MaxSpread parameter, exploring competitive spreads across dYdX markets (currently set at 20bps for BTC and ETH, and 40bps on all others).
0xCChan
Funded
Infrastructure
VoteExtensions Development (Cosmos SDK) II
A top priority for dYdX v4 price oracles and liquidations is the development and release of VoteExtensions on the Cosmos SDK. VoteExtensions will allow validators to vote and agree on the oracle price at each block, enabling a more efficient price discovery and liquidation system for the protocol. Aleksandr is an experienced Cosmos developers that will prioritize the development of VoteExtensions to ensure release ahead of the dYdX mainnet. This will allow the integration and testing of VoteExtensions on dYdX v4 ahead of mainnet launch. This grantee will be working closely with the other grant in similar scope.
Aleksandr Bezobchuk
Funded
Infrastructure
VoteExtensions Development (Cosmos SDK)
A top priority for dYdX v4 price oracles and liquidations is the development and release of VoteExtensions on the Cosmos SDK. VoteExtensions will allow validators to vote and agree on the oracle price at each block, enabling a more efficient price discovery and liquidation system for the protocol. Skip Protocol are experienced Cosmos developers that will prioritize the development of VoteExtensions to ensure release ahead of the dYdX mainnet. This will allow the integration and testing of VoteExtensions on dYdX v4 ahead of mainnet launch. This team will be working closely with the other grant in similar scope.
Skip Protocol
Funded
Marketing
LionHack 2023 Sponsorship
LionDAO is hosting their annual hackathon in NY that brings together 300+ students to build projects in a three-day event. We are sponsoring the event to promote dYdX as a contributor-friendly protocol to engage active builders and future protocol contributors. We view this as a great opportunity to onboard new contributors, and Carl will attend the event as a judge to meet students actively building in person to talk about dYdX and dYdX Grants.
LionDAO
Funded
Community
dYdX Merch Renewal
After successfully launching the dYdX Merch program, we are renewing the the program for an additional six months using the remaining funds on hand from the previous round. The funds will compensate the Toyoji team for resupplying stock, processing orders from internal partners (Foundation, Trading, Grants, Community) and online purchases, and maintaining Merch media accounts. The primary mission of the Merch program has transitioned to internal incentive driven, helping promote engagement and contributions through merchandise rewards.
Toyoji, Ltd (Surreal & 0xNiall)
Funded
Infrastructure
Cross Chain Transfer Protocol & Noble Relaying
With the upcoming dYdX Chain, the protocol will be dependent on the new Noble chain to support USDC collateral. Strangelove, as the lead developing team of Noble and experienced relayer in Cosmos, will support Noble relaying in testnet and mainnet launch to enable USDC deposits, and build a cross chain relayer ("CCTP"). The CCTP relayer will support relaying between dYdX Chain USDC and Ethereum ERC20 USDC for deposits and withdrawals, allowing users from Ethereum to continue trading on dYdX without having to first bridge their tokens.
Strangelove Ventures
Funded
Research
Funding Rate Bounding Research
Today, dYdX bounds funding rates to a range between -0.75% and 0.75%. This research will explore the impact these limits have on dYdX markets, including a study of market behaviour when funding rates are trading near or at the limits and a peer analysis of other exchanges. The research will deliver a recommendation for updating the limits, and push forward a governance proposal to the existing on-chain parameters (on StarkEx).
Considered Finance
Funded
Educational
Academy Videos
This is both a Retroactive grant and a future work grant. The retroactive is being awarded for a video created on bridging deposits that has received +1k views and work done to revamp the Academy library with updated content, thumbnails, and the overall look. The grant is funding a dYdX Ecosystem video that will be included in our quiz section of the Academy to promote participation in the community and DAO beyond interacting with the platform.
Nous
Completed
Community
Academy Media and Website Management
James will take on the role of website management and social media engagement for the dYdX Academy throughout our initial launch period. For website management, the role includes regular maintenance and upkeep, updating content across written articles, videos, and quizzes, optimize the website for SEO to improve engagement, and more upgrades as we look to expand (e.g. token gated content). On social media, the role will be crucial to the success of our Academy by engaging crypto twitter actively with regular content distributions, community and online engagement, hosting online events, collaborating with other accounts, and more to drive our media presence.
JamesdYdX
Funded
Community
Academy Article Designs
Ahead our dYdX Academy launch, Anna will be designing 10 custom article headers to go along with the articles written for the initial release. The headers will be customized to leverage dYdX themes and assets with unique traits symbolizing the content described in the article. The designs will be consistent with the rest of our website to maintain a high level of quality across all components.
Anna Kajda
Completed
Community
Merchandise Launch Retroactive
Mo, not originally assigned with helping the launch of our Merch program, stepped up to play an active role in helping the team improving the overall process and impact of the successful launch. Mo contributed towards outreach initiatives, website design, operational hoops, and more to guarantee a smooth and high impact launch.
Momo Labs Ltd
Completed
Research
MEV Research
Chorus One will produce an in-depth report on MEV in dYdX v4, covering important topics like: validator perspective on the existing understanding of MEV in v4 and possibly new cases, assessing stakeholder interaction across validators and market makers to extract MEV opportunities, and the introduction of dYdX in the existing MEV ecosystem found across Cosmos based chains. The report will provide a better understanding of what to expect in terms of MEV as we migrate to v4.
Chorus One
Funded
Research
MEV Dashboard and Report
Skip Protocol will be leading efforts to capture and measure MEV events on dYdX v4 with a public dashboard available to the community. The dashboard will enable data gathering to track MEV across validators and protocol actors (e.g. Market Makers) to better enforce guardrails and possibly penalties on dYdX participants, namely validators. The dashboard will also allow the community to begin scoping out a future MEV solution that addresses all negatives events witnessed. In addition to the dashboard, Skip will be working on a report that covers the perspective of existing searchers looking at dYdX as a new venue for MEV.
Skip Protocol
Funded
Marketing
Coinacademy Sponsorship
The sponsorship includes 12 editions of their weekly show hosted on twitch with dYdX branding, dYdX branding on the website and included in all content produced, at least 3 Twitter threads promoting dYdX, 6 videos promoting dYdX through educational content, 6 articles promoting dYdX content and ongoing news, and additional coverage of dYdX brand where possible.
Coinacademy
Funded
Research
Basis Trading Research
Funding an in-depth look at the opportunities for cash-and-carry trading in the existing dYdX product. Given the lack of native spot markets, there are capital efficiency considerations, external protocol integration requirements and risks, and other important topics to explore in determining whether a well-capitalized trader can efficiently perform basis trades using dYdX. The delivered report will help traders explore these opportunities and position themselves to capture funding premiums on dYdX.
Blockworks Research
Completed
Educational
Academy Page Editor
This grant will fund the initial production of content to be published as part of the upcoming Academy Page release. The grantee will publish 5 new articles, peer-review 5 articles written by co-Editor, work with a visual artist to design the article graphics, and publish social media briefs for the Academy account. In total, 10 articles are being published by both grantees.
Gabbie
Completed
Educational
Academy Page Editor
This grant will fund the initial production of content to be published as part of the upcoming Academy Page release. The grantee will publish 5 new articles, peer-review 5 articles written by co-Editor, work with a visual artist to design the article graphics, and publish social media briefs for the Academy account. In total, 10 articles are being published by both grantees.
Micah
Completed
Tooling
dYdX Trading Journal and Profile Application
This grant will fund the building of an application that allows dYdX users to access their complete trade history with journaling, reporting, and tracking functions. The goal is to allow traders to track their PnL across multiple timeframes (e.g Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly) and journal their trade entries for historical referencing. Reporting will allow easier access to historical trades for external requirements (e.g. Taxes) and certifications. The Profile element will give users the ability to share their trading performance with other community members, including individual Trade Report Cards and an overall performance page with their accompanying Hedgie NFT (picture a Hedgie with Weekly/Monthly/YTD performance that can be shared publicly).
Kagan
Completed
Community
dYdX Builders Workshop (Turkey)
Grant will sponsor a one-day workshop event in Istanbul, Turkey that includes discussions on dYdX and an interactive session to build a trading bot through dYdX's API. This is a promotional event to engage the Turkish crypto community and promote dYdX as a builder-friendly platform.
Metin Mert Yeşilyurt
Completed
Marketing
Promotional Video (Greek Youtuber)
Grant will fund the production of a video by popular Greek crypto influencer CryptoCapitalist covering dYdX and all its features as a promotional campaign. Content will include educational material to guide new users through the onboarding process, an in-depth overview of all the protocol features, and an overview of the governance process. The funding is split across milestones, paying out the full amount only when +2000 viewer count is achieved.
CryptoCapitalist
Completed
Marketing
Cosmonaut Hacker House Sponsorship (India)
Sponsoring a Hackerhouse event in Bangalore, India that will focus on Cosmos builders and projects to engage the Indian crypto community with a focus on Cosmos. The event will be in the last week of January 2023. Sponsorship includes logos, banners, and a Twitter AMA to promote dYdX.
Comdex
Funded
Marketing
Layer3 Pilot Quest
This grant will fund a trial of the Layer3 Quest campaign with two 1 month long quests that promote dYdX and help familiarize existing Layer3 users with the dYdX platform. Layer3 minimizes one-off users by restricting quests to committed permissioned layer3 users only. Quest 1 will ask users to deposit into dYdX, perform a trade, stake DYDX and follow dYdX on Twitter. Quest 2 will ask users to perform a leveraged trade. Users will receive 10 USDC per quest completed.
Layer3
Completed
Community
Community Reputation Dashboard
Grant will fund a dYdX dedicated dashboard that scores community members on their contributions and actions in dYdX using community channels and tools (e.g. Discord participation, Commonwealth posts/comments, Snapshot votes, On-chain votes, Call attendance, and more). Final dashboard will look similar to this one but with a focus on Contributor Score, not Delegations: https://optimism.showkarma.xyz/.
Karma
Funded
Marketing
GravityX Accelerator Sponsorship
This grant will sponsor a 12 week accelerator program in India to help promote dYdX across the region and sponsor the building of Cosmos related projects that could be applied to dYdX at chain launch. The partnering firm will serve as a launchpad for dYdX to reach more builders and crypto community members in India by introducing the brand to the community.
GravityX
Funded
Research
Liquidity & Safety Staking Research Retroactive
Xenophon Labs has conducted research on the efficiency of both the Liquidity Module and Safety Module in dYdX. The research was published in detailed written reports and accompanying Dune dashboards to visualize the data. Through this research, both modules were found to be inefficient sources of DYDX protocol emissions. Following the Liquidity Module research, the community approved a proposal to sunset the module, resulting in 383,562 DYDX accruing to the dYdX Community per epoch. In total, the protocol is saving +19M in DYDX emissions through this proposal.
Xenophon Labs
Completed
Community
Academy Page Designer
This grant will fund the production of all web designs to be used across the Academy Page website and POAPs. Grant production includes: 4 Full Page Designs, 4 Dropdown Designs, and 10 POAP designs. This Grantee is working closely with other Academy Page Grantees to integrate the designs and build out the best possible product.
Anna Kajda
Funded
Community
Merchandise Webstore + Branding
Grant will fund the building of an online webstore for the ongoing dYdX Merchandise Campaign, along with customized branding and designs for marketing purposes. The webstore is set to include web3 utilities, including tokengating for DYDX and Hedgie holder specific drops and wallet connections. Grant also includes a 3 month post-completion retainer to monitor progress and add new features.
Paperclip Labs
Funded
Marketing
Metagals Workshops (LATAM Women in DeFi)
Metagals is a group started in Mexico City to improve participation of women in DeFi and Web3 across Latin America. This grant will sponsor two workshop events that will focus on teaching attendees about Perpetual Trading, Decentralized Exchanges and dYdX specific features. The workshops will go over onboarding to dYdX and go over the platform, community, and governance.
Metagals
Completed
Community
Academy Page POAPs
Grant will fund the creation, distribution, and general management of POAPs to be implemented as rewards for Academy Page interactions. Users will receive POAPs for completing specific goals and milestones as part of the Academy program. We expect 9 unique POAPs to be created and distributed to 25,000 unique users as part of the grant.
Alucard
Funded
Research
Trading Fees Optimization Research
Grant will fund research to optimize dYdX trading fees for maximum trading volume and user onboarding, in preparation for community ownership of setting fees in V4. The research will study competitors, strategies, and historical fees on dYdX to determine optimal rates and adjustments that can be made going forward.
0xCChan
0xCLR
Funded
Community
Merchandise Grant Retroactive
Community member ModYModX played a very important role in the Grants team launching the Merchandise production grant. ModYModX has been working with the merchandise team for several months to produce an initial sample, which the Grants team could use for quality testing, and assisting both the Merch and Grants team to produce the existing grant. Given the high impact expected for this grant, and months contributed to helping this come to life, the Grants team is issuing a retroactive grant to compensate the work.
Momo Labs Ltd
Completed
Community
Social Media Announcement Videos
This is a follow-up to a grant issued in v1 of the Program. The grantee was tasked with developing social media videos for all Grants announcements, which were successful in providing interactive methods and digestible content. This grant has assigned an additional 10 videos, with new designs using the revamped dYdX Grants branding and customized announcements.
Mary Val
Funded
Community
Copy Trading Platform (Testnet Competition)
YataDAO is in the process of releasing a Copy Trading platform with dYdX as its primary backend exchange for execution. By using dYdX for trade execution, this new platform will improve trading volumes and user onboarding. The grant will fund the launch of a month long Testnet Competition with USDC prizes rewarded to the best traders. This competition will serve as a marketing and learning tool for both new and existing dYdX users to experiment with copy trading.
Yata
Closed
Educational
Academy Page Website Manager
This grant will fund the building and management of a customized dYdX Academy Page as part of the larger Academy Page Project through the Grants program. The Grantee has experience building the existing Ambassadors website, and will use this knowledge to build a similar dYdX brand page to host all Academy efforts. The goal is to build an easy-to-use, intuitive website with interactive components and dYdX branding that helps onboard new users. On top of onboarding new users, the dYdX Academy website should become the go-to for knowledge on trading and crypto.
JamesdYdX
Funded
Tooling
Hummingbot Market Making Bots
Hummingbot is a popular tool used across multiple venues for systematic, market making trades in an easy to use manner. The grant will fund the building of bots that can be used by the community to easily trade on dYdX through market making strategies.
Hummingbot Foundation
Funded
Research
Risk Parameter Framework
As part of the V4 migration, the community will take ownership of all risk parameters for dYdX trading system (maintenance margin, position size, etc..). This research will present a framework for the community to appropriately assess these risks and make adjustments as needed. The grant includes an initial proposal to make changes based on the framework.
Considered Finance
Completed
Events
Cosmoverse Event Sponsorship
dYdX is sponsoring the upcoming Cosmoverse event in Medellin, Colombia as a Platinum sponsor. The event is happening on September 26 - 28. The goal of the event is to bring together everyone from the Cosmos ecosystem with heavy focus on community building. With a platinum sponsorship, dYdX will have its logo placed across the event, on the website, receive a booth and a chance to speak at the event. Carl is expected to speak about dYdX and the Grants Program.
Cosmoverse
Funded
Educational
Academy Page Project Manager
As part of our Academy Page project launch, ModYModX is joining as the Project Manager for the effort. In this role, the Project Manager will responsible for coordinating efforts, planning execution, identifying weaknesses and delivering the final product to the community. The role includes working with both the Grants team to identify necessary grants and the relevant Grantees to coordinate efforts.
Momo Labs Ltd
Funded
Research
DYDX Token Design & Protocol Parameters Research
Grant will fund two Research papers and subsequent community proposals, Token Design for V4 Migration & Protocol Parameter Migration. Similar to the work previously done for Trading Rewards, the goal is to produce two in-depth research papers that can be used to guide the community through governance proposals to implement changes. The first paper will address the upcoming community responsibility for token migration to the new chain. The second paper will address all parameters existing on today's protocol that may or may not need to be changed and implemented for the new chain. Both papers will provide in-depth insight and be followed with governance proposals based on the lessons learned.
Xenophon Labs
Funded
Marketing
dYdX Merchandise Campaign
Grant will fund the production of dYdX themed merchandise to be sold online at cost for community members, distributed as giveaways during events and conferences, and used for promotional campaigns. The merchandise will include t-shirts, hoodies, hats, unique dYdX accessories, and lots of other products. Merchandise produced will also include Hedgies specific items, which will be tokengated to Hedgies holders only for exclusivity. No profits are generated from the merchandise, any sales are done at cost so that community members buy at the price of production only. The Merchandise will be produced in two drops, Drop #1 in 3 months and Drop #2 in 6 months, and will make use of a custom webstore built through another grant.
Toyoji, Ltd (Surreal & 0xNiall)
Funded
Research
DAO Research Paper
This is a retroactive grant to reward the grantee for their research paper, dYdX DAO Organizational Research, which explores alternatives for future growth in V4 and makes recommendations for discussion points.
Parad0xPrince
Completed
Events
Espacio Cripto Event Sponsorship
The grant will be used to sponsor a community event held in Mexico City with the goal of onboarding new users to web3 and promoting the ecosystem in the region, along with dYdX for trading.
Espacio Cripto
Completed
Tooling
ccxt Library Integration
The grant will be used to completely integrate dYdX into the ccxt open source library, the most popular open source trading library in crypto. Today, dYdX is only partially integrated with multiple manual steps required, the grant will be responsible for finalizing the integration.
Tralala
Funded
Community
Hedgie Twitter Bot
The grant will be used to build a Twitter bot dedicated to all activities involving Hedgie NFTs, including market activity, new listings, floor updates, giveaways and more. The bot will make use of multiple APIs to compile the information into an easily digestible Twitter account.
Crypto Ibuki
Completed
Community
Ambassador Burrow Onboarding Tool
The grant will be used to build an onboarding tool specifically for the Ambassador Burrows program launching in May for the Foundation to scale its community of CMs and Ambassadors. This will act as a trial before potentially being implemented in the Onboarding framework built in the other grant.
DAOquest
Completed
Community
Gather.town dYdX Space
The grant will be used to build a space dedicated to dYdX on Gather.town with custom branding and helpful information posted across the room. The space will be used for future community calls and events hosting.
Chainspaces.xyz
Completed
Educational
Educational Content + Telegram Stickers (Russian)
The grant will be used to build educational content in Russia broadcasted across both text material and a series of Youtube videos. Additionally, the grant will fund the building of a dYdX Telegram Sticker pack.
Kikal
Completed
Community
dYdX DAO Onboarding Framework & Working Group
The grant will be used to map and build the Onboarding framework that will be adopted across the dYdX DAO for growing Working Groups and participation. The grant includes a research post and the founding of an Onboarding working group to help guide growth.
Davincifi
Funded
Security
dYdX Contract Monitoring & Forta Agents
The grant will be used to fund the building of Forta agents that will monitor the Safety and Liquidity modules for problematic events. The grant also includes monitoring activity across dYdX across for health and malicious activity.
Forta & Nethermind
Completed
Community
Hedgies Interactive Banner
The grant will be used to fund the production of a customizable banner to integrate your Hedgie into a pfp type background for use on Twitter and other social media sites. This will be available to all Hedgie owners.
mirrash.eth
Completed
Educational
Educational Content using Hedgies
The grant will be used to fund a Youtube library that will use existing Hedgie NFTs to provide interactive education courses around dYdX product and trading lessons.
mirrash.eth
Completed
Educational
Japanese Website with Educational and Newsletter Content
The grant will be used to fund a website dedicated to attracting and helping dYdX users in Japan. The website will be customized to match Grants branding, and include Education Content, Weekly Newsletters and General crypto news.
deg.eth
Completed
Analytics
Llama Partnership - Analytics Dashboard
The grant will be used to fund the building of an Analytics Dashboard exploring data across multiple onchain and API based endpoints to provide an overview of dYdX activity and metrics. The dashboard will help digest dYdX data more easily.
Elaine Hu (Llama)
Completed
Events
Hack for Inclusion Event Sponsorship
The grant will be used to fund an all-woman and non-binary hackathon event in India in May 2022 that helps support young women in their development careers. The sponsorship includes promotional marketing of dYdX across materials.
Hack for Inclusion
Completed
Marketing
Grants Referral Program & Marketing
The grant will be used to fund a Grants referral program to help scale and incentivize more applications to RFPs. The grantee will build out the full process and manage its growth while also working on additional marketing tools to continue promoting the program.
Ishita Gupta
Completed
Tooling
Rust SDK
The grant will be used to fund a complete rebuild of the existing Python SDK to the Rust language, including all existing functionalities.
Crypto Ibuki
Completed
Events
ETHGlobal Event Sponsorship
The grant will be used to sponsor 4 different ETHGlobal events as a leading sponsor, including ETHAmsterdam, HackMoney, ETHNewYork and ETHMexicoCity. The sponsorship includes promotional marketing of dYdX, attendance on behalf of Grants and Foundation teams, hackathon participation and other benefits.
ETHGlobal
Completed
Community
Grants Community Manager (Greece)
The grant will be used to compensate a Grants specific community manager to take over all Discord communications and manage growth across the Greek community through translation and promotion.
Alexios Valonasis
Completed
Newsletter
Newsletter, Twitter Campaigns, Education Content in Greek
The grant will be used to fund a series of newsletters, twitter campaigns and educational content published in Greek and spread across the Greek crypto community. Content will be published on a dedicated webpage with promotional dYdX content and banners.
CryptoHondos
Completed
Marketing
Gitcoin Grants Round 13 Sponsorship
The grant will be used to sponsor the Gitcoin Grants round 13 program that focuses on public gounds funding around ethereum ecosystem development. The funding will go towards the main pool and the zktech pool to help fund both general ethereum development and development around zk specific technoloy.
Gitcoin
Completed
Community
dYdX Ambassador Burrows Program
The grant will be used to fund a dYdX Foundation driven effort to onboard new Ambassadors to the Burrows program that will build specific working groups around dYdX efforts. The program will pay qualified candidates 1 month of work as a trail period before onboarding to the program.
dYdX Foundation
Completed
Marketing
Rabbithole dYdX Quest
The grant will be used to fund a Rabbithole dYdX quest that will reward users for interacting with the dYdX application. The quest will include depositing funds to dYdX L2, trading to earn DYDX rewards, and staking the DYDX into the Safety Module.
Rabbithole
Completed
Educational
Educational Content and Grants Community Manager (Spanish)
The grant will be used to compensate an Latin America based community manager that will be working on promoting the grants program, translating marketing and content into Spanish, and building additional educational content around dYdX in Spanish
Abel Colmenares
Completed
Community
Grants Community Manager (India / Asia-Pacific)
The grant will be used to compensate an India based community manager to engage the local community on dYdX and the grants program, source local contributors for the program, and help with promotional campaigns.
Soumyaranjan Ram
Completed
Tooling
Drag and Drop Trading Simulator
The grant will be used to fund build a trading simulator tool with an easy to use strategy builder including drag and drop functionality. The tool will display profitability across various market conditions and highlight strategy success.
Invsto
Completed
Research
Treasury Asset Diversification
The grant will be used to fund a research deep dive around optimal treasury management and diversification of community treasury funds. Once the research has been completed, the grant will include submitting a DIP for the community to vote on.
Xenophon Labs
Funded
Tooling
dYdX Trading Tool - Chrome Extension
The grant will be used to build a chrome extension application that will allow users to execute trades on their dYdX account directly. Users will see their balances, positions and be able to perform trades from the application.
yusakapon
Vol-san
KONISHI
Completed
Marketing
The Defiant Q2 Sponsorship
The grant will be used to sponsor the following: The Defiant Newsletter through a sponsored post, The Defiant Newsletter through a promotional banner for 3 months, The Defiant podcast through promotional messaging in each episode for 3 months.
The Defiant
Completed
Tooling
Tradingview Integration
The grant will be used to build a web application that integrates Tradingview strategies into a dYdX Trading account to execute trades directly through a strategy. Users will be able to tap into Tradingview resources and test out different ideas using the app.
Crypto Ibuki
Completed
Events
Uganda Blockchain Events Sponsor
The grant will be used to sponsor a couple of events through the Uganda Blockchain group that will bring together the local community for discussions around dYdX, Perpetuals, and more general crypto projects. This is a kickoff grant to determine the popularity of these events.
Kamala Immaculate
Completed
Community
Grants Program Analyst
The grant will be used to employ an analyst to help the program with initial application screening, applicant due diligence work, contributor sourcing, community engagement and more.
Matthew Han
Completed
Research
Compensation Consultant
The grant will be used to fund an in depth consultation of grants funding amounts across 15 different projects. The consultant will provide an analysis of funding amounts and recommendation for optimizing and normalizing the compensation across future projects.
C3 Group
Completed
Tooling
C# SDK
The grant will be used to build a C# version of the existing Python SDK for dYdX API use. The SDK will replicate all existing functionality and functions found in the SDK today.
Ali Mhossaini
Completed
Marketing
Twitter Trading Activity Bot
The grant will be used to build a twitter account that will automatically tweet large orders executed and liquidation events occurring on dYdX. The style will replicate popular Liquidation twitter accounts seen across different platforms to keep the community informed.
Shippooor DAO
Completed
Third-Party
Boardroom Integration
The grant will be used to integrate and maintain dYdX governance activity in the Boardroom governance application. The boardroom dashboard will provide activity tracking capability, upcoming and historical proposals, direct voting and delegation, proposal creation, and browse additional resources.
Boardroom
Completed
Marketing
Messari Quarterly Reports
The grant will be used to fund four quarterly reports deep diving on dYdX analytics, metrics, valuations and more. The reports will be conducted by the Messary data science team to analyze key KPIs and provide updates around protocol developments. The reports will be freely available on the Messari page.
Messari
Funded
Marketing
Espacio Cripto Podcast Sponsorship
The grant will make dYdX the primary sponsor for Espacio Cripto, a Spanish-speaking podcast covering all things crypto with focus on Latin America for a 6 month period. The sponsorship will include a promotional message in each episode, 3 episodes dedicated to dYdX. Additionally, a dYdX banner will be included on all newsletters published by the team.
Espacio Cripto
Completed
Research
Autonomous Working Groups Research
The grant will be used to fund a research sprint around best practices across autonomous working groups culminating in a policy brief that will help guide the dYdX DAO Working Group structure. The research will make use of historical working group structures to find best practices and common pitfalls.
Joanna Pope (Other Internet)
Completed
Research
DAO Organizational Structure Research
The grant will be used to fund a deep dive research report around historical and existing DAO structures with guidance around successful best practices. Topics will include organization structure, reporting & accountability, contributors, funding, and more.
Davincifi
Completed
Community
DGP Graphic Designer (Video)
The grant will be used to fund weekly video design representations of our Grants related announcements. The videos will be shared on Twitter and be customized each week to match the content. The videos will primarily be used for funding round updates.
Mary Val
Completed
Tooling
Treasury Management Dashboard
The grant will be used to build a dYdX Community Treasury dashboard to help the community track activity, payments, revenue and expenses with interactive graphics. This will include historical analytics to measure success ratios and previous activity. The tool will also for for scenario analysis to help the community measure future proposals (e.g. impact of spending X from treasury).
Shippooor DAO
Completed
Community
Search Engine Optimization for Grant Content
The grant will be used to fund SEO work on all future content published by both the Grants Program itself and Grantees with content publishing work. The work will include reviewing posts before they are published and editing keywords/phrases to ensure maximum optimization of the content.
Alexios Valonasis
Funded
Marketing
Blockcrunch Podcast Sponsorship
The grant will make dYdX the primary sponsor of the Blockcrunch podcast hosted by Jason Choi over a 6 month period. The sponsorship will include special brand shoutouts in every episode and 2 episodes with dYdX guests to discuss the protocol. The grant also includes a revamp of the Blockcrunch website that will include dYdX branding.
Blockcrunch
Completed
Community
dydx.vote + subgraph
The Grant will be used to build a dydx.vote webpage to display all proposals and provide a delegation page allowing delegators to chose active participants for delegation. The webpage will help market governance activity by providing a simpler interface. Work done also includes subgraph improvements to build the functionalities.
Arr00
Completed
Research
Rewards Optimization Research and Paper
The Grant will be used to write a full research report and code samples that will determine optimal trading strategies for rewards maximization. The paper will be marketed across several platforms and shared among trading circles to help readership.
Xenophon Labs
Completed
Community
dYdX Branding and Website
The Grant will be used to build a new fully self-hosted and uniquely designed Grants Program website. The website will host all existing features found today along with additional pages to host tools and content built by grantees. The grant will also include the designing of a unique dYdX Grants Program logo for marketing purposes.
Paperclip Labs
Completed
Educational
Japanese Educational Course
The Grant will be used to create an interactive dYdX course in Japanese. The course will go over all important aspects of dYdX to help new users feel comfortable trading on the platform.
Proof of Learning
Completed
Tooling
Trading Strategy Simulator and Risk Tool
The Grant will be used to build a trading simulator web application that will also include risk analysis and metrics around possible price scenarios. The tool will allow for mapping of different strategies across real time dYdX feeds and future price movements to help determine profitability.
Svyatoslav Bitiutskii
Completed
Tooling
Rewards Estimator and Alerting Tool
The Grant will be used to build rewards estimator tool to help traders map out their profits from rewards earned through trading on dYdX. The tool will allow for estimations through different strategies to determine the more profitable option. The team will also build alerting and educational content around the tool.
Mélody Frédérique
Maxime Sibylle
Tanguy Samson
Wilson Tian
Funded
Tooling
Monte Carlo Risk Calculator + Educational Post
The Grant will be used to build a Monte Carlo risk calculator for dYdX traders to better assess risk performance on their trading strategies. The tool will be host in a GitHub repo open sources for everyone. The tool will also come with an educational post for new users to adopt.
Bayswater Capital
Completed
Tooling
Trading Strategy Bot + Youtube Tutorial
Grant will be used to build a trading strategy tool for dYdX traders to use locally via a GitHub repo. The strategy will initially include a simple market making algorithm, followed with more complex strategies including TWAP and grid trading. The repo will come with a Youtube tutorial educating users on its use.
Bayswater Capital
Completed
Tooling
Funding Rates Page
Grant will be used to build a dedicated web app to give traders a view of all dYdX asset funding rates across multiple timeframes. The page will be interactive to include deep diving across different assets and historical analysis of changing rates. It will also include API functionalities to allow developer access.
Akhil Kathuria
Completed
Educational
Educational Glossary and Newsletter
Grant will be used to build a website dedicated to weekly dYdX content posted in both newsletter format and Video content. The website will also host an educational glossary covering common pitfalls among new users to help explain complex topics, ie. Funding Rates, Liquidations, Perpetuals, etc..
Nizzynomics
Completed
Newsletter
The dYdX Report (Newsletter)
The grant will be used to build a weekly newsletter that covers all dYdX activity and broader L2 Starknet activity relevant to dYdX. The newsletters will be shared across multiple platforms and marketed through various streams to increase readership.
Starkwhale
Funded
Educational
Youtube Educational Library
Grant will be used to build a Youtube library dedicated to educating and guiding new users on the dYdX platform, perpetuals trading, and L2 networks. The library will be marketed across multiple platforms and accessible to everyone in English.
Nous
Completed
Events
Event Sponsorship – UTXO Conference - Prague
Grant will be used to sponsor a crypto conference in Prague surrounding primarily decentralized applications. The conference is scheduled for June 4 - 5 2022. The conference will host 1000 people in person and include an online live event. The sponsorship will include branding, logos on all publicity and materials, a special message and tweets.
vojtch.eth
Completed
Marketing
Turkish dYdX Newsletter and Marketing Campaign
Grant will be used to sponsor an existing Turkish newsletter with dYdX messaging and a few dedicated posts explaining dYdX and its benefits. The grant will also include marketing across Twitter campaigns, promotions and general engagement across the Turkish community.
DeFi Library
Completed
Tooling
Multiple RFP Tooling Page
Grant includes work on Funding Rates page, Rewards & Tracking Simulator, and CLI Trading tool. All will be combined in a community accessible webpage that will continue to host additional work done and maintenance on behalf of Chaos Labs.
Chaos Labs
Completed
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