Beyond trading tools, publishing papers on the profitability of reward maximization through dYdX trading can be used as a marketing tool for experience traders using other venues. This research should benefit both existing traders from its results and dYdX growth.
Grant resulted in the successful implementation of changes to Rewards formula in Epoch 10.
This was following active discussion and a passed Snapshot vote: https://commonwealth.im/dydx/snapshot/dydxgov.eth/0xce4b1334f337975a42c3f78dd16fb25e0b60e816a2d9382e402b5384bea37475