The grant has been provided to improve the onboarding experience for traders, the Free Deposit Program covers gas fees on deposits above USD 20 from Ethereum and other L2 chains. Over the past three months, the program enabled USD 67M in subsidized deposits, helping reduce friction for both new and existing users.

The grant funds activities following the dYdX Chain Software Upgrade v9.0, approved through governance on 31 August 2025, which introduced a new capability: designated proposers, a governance-controlled subset of validators responsible for proposing blocks.