Last week, one of Ethereum’s biggest L2-integrated dapps — derivatives giant dYdX — announced plans to depart Ethereum upon its upcoming v4 release. The destination? A fully sovereign blockchain on the Cosmos Tendermint consensus protocol, built using the Cosmos software development kit.

We brought on dYdX, Founder, Antonio Juliano to discuss this announcement and so much more.

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro
7:00 The Announcement
14:38 Creating the Best Product
25:10 Decentralization
33:50 The Risks
37:55 Wallets
40:07 Staking Validators
46:05 Monetary Policy & Latency
54:44 Tradeoffs with Ethereum
59:55 Legal Reasons
1:06:00 Real Centralization
1:14:20 Bridging & Composability
1:24:00 Closing

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Resources:

Antonio on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano

Announcement:
https://twitter.com/dYdX/status/1539607062291877889

Why Would a dApp Leave Ethereum Right Now?
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/dydx-cosmos-ethereum?

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dYdX Abandons Ethereum?! with Founder, Antonio Juliano

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