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dYdX Discovery Program - Help Shape the Future of Trading
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dYdX Discovery Program - Help Shape the Future of Trading

The dYdX Discovery Program is an ongoing initiative that surfaces insights from traders and ecosystem participants through weekly interviews, helping shape the evolution of the dYdX protocol.
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August 5, 2025
Introducing Designated Proposers: A Governance-Controlled Path to Reliability and Performance
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Introducing Designated Proposers: A Governance-Controlled Path to Reliability and Performance

A new governance-controlled system of designated block proposers is being introduced to enhance blockchain performance, reliability, and latency through deterministic, stake-weighted selection.
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July 24, 2025
A New Architecture to Mitigate MEV
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v4: dYdX Chain

A New Architecture to Mitigate MEV

Dive into our new architecture created to mitigate MEV.
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November 21, 2023
Distinguishing MEV from Expected Noise
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v4: dYdX Chain

Distinguishing MEV from Expected Noise

The dYdX Research team has worked with Skip Protocol to update Skip's MEV dashboard to better account for latency and regular network noise.
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September 26, 2023
An update on MEV - Catching a Bad Validator
v4: dYdX Chain
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An update on MEV - Catching a Bad Validator

In order to discourage MEV extraction, Skip Protocol developed a dashboard that highlights the amount of MEV each validator potentially has extracted. We are dedicated to building open-source mechanisms and protocol level designs to deter MEV extraction.
Research
August 3, 2023
dYdX v4 and MEV
v4: dYdX Chain
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dYdX v4 and MEV

Rebuilding dYdX as a standalone Cosmos based blockchain featuring a fully decentralized, off-chain, orderbook and matching engine.
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March 29, 2023
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