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Can dYdX Become a Decentralized BitMEX? How It Is Scaling With StarkWare - Ep.218
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:09:10
Publish Date: 2021-03-09 08:30:00
Description:

Antonio Juliano, founder of the decentralized exchange dYdX, and Eli Ben-Sasson, cofounder of StarkWare, discuss the recent launch of dYdX on Ethereum layer 2 using StarkWare’s scaling technology. In this episode, they cover:

  • what cross-margin perpetual trading is and why dYdX chose StarkWare to be its scaling partner (1:13)
  • ZK rollups and how they contrast with optimistic rollups (8:49)
  • how many transactions per second StarkWare can handle through its layer 2 solution (16:57)
  • lessons learned and critical takeaways from their six months spent working together (20:15)
  • the similarities between Ethereum and StarkNet (26:07)
  • why Antonio believes that scalability is more important than composability (27:30)
  • the benefits of decentralized exchanges and how dYdX fits into the dex marketplace (31:54)
  • why dYdX chose Chainlink as its oracle provider, and how it got oracle prices onto layer 2, which previously had none (38:11)
  • why Cairo, StarkWare’s Turing-complete programming language and platform, can be the “one verifier to rule them all” (42:10)
  • what it was like for StarkWare to compete in the Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off (45:41)
  • whether or not DeFi could handle a GameStop/Robinhood situation (48:56)
  • fair launch tokens versus VC tokens (54:12)
  • the likelihood of dYdX and StarkWare each creating a token (58:19)
  • upcoming developments and projects for both companies (1:02:14)

 

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Antonio Juliano

Eli Ben-Sasson

dYdX

StarkWare

dYdX and StarkWare Relationship

 

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