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Podcast: The Fintech Blueprint
Episode: Building a decentralized exchange and appchain for perpetual contracts, with dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano
Description: Lex chats with Antonio Juliano, founder and CEO of dYdX - Â a crypto derivatives trading platform that caters to professional traders outside the U.S. It averages roughly $2 billion in daily trading volume (Coinbase does about $5 billion). Antonio shares his experience working at Coinbase since 2015 when Bitcoin was dominant and Ethereum was new to the game. Together, they discuss how decentralized exchanges and automated market makers made it easier for individuals to provide liquidity and trade crypto assets. Touching on dYdX's plans to deploy a Layer 1 on Cosmos, as well as adopting a model of progressive decentralization, and so m...