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Podcast: Unchained
Episode: Can dYdX Become a Decentralized BitMEX? How It Is Scaling With StarkWare
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 be...