Round 4 of Approval

By:

dYdX Grants Team

Hi Everyone!

Happy to share details on the fourth round of funding approved by the Committee! This week we have 8 grants with a total of $228,980.00 in pledged DYDX funding. As always, check out the Funded Grants section below for more information on each grant approved.

As always, we’ll continue updating RFPs to keep the contributor pool open to new applicants and we very much encourage applications outside of the RFP list!

Check out the video announcement done by our Grantee Mary Val on Twitter! Mary will be updating the community with videos like this one weekly to make our announcements more fun.

Have a great week! 🦔

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Funded grants

Messari Quarterly Reports

The grant will be used to fund four quarterly reports deep diving on dYdX analytics, metrics, valuations and more. The reports will be conducted by the Messary data science team to analyze key KPIs and provide updates around protocol developments. The reports will be freely available on the Messari page.

Funded

Boardroom Integration

The grant will be used to integrate and maintain dYdX governance activity in the Boardroom governance application. The boardroom dashboard will provide activity tracking capability, upcoming and historical proposals, direct voting and delegation, proposal creation, and browse additional resources.

Completed

Liquidation Alert Tool

Grant will be used to build a self-hosted liquidation alerting tool to help traders be alerted of any asset price nearing their margin liquidation levels on a dYdX position. The bot will support alerting across multiple platforms, including Discord, Slack, Telegram. A tutorial will also be released to help onboard new users.

Completed

C# SDK

The grant will be used to build a C# version of the existing Python SDK for dYdX API use. The SDK will replicate all existing functionality and functions found in the SDK today.

Completed

Compensation Consultant

The grant will be used to fund an in depth consultation of grants funding amounts across 15 different projects. The consultant will provide an analysis of funding amounts and recommendation for optimizing and normalizing the compensation across future projects.

Completed

Grants Program Analyst

The grant will be used to employ an analyst to help the program with initial application screening, applicant due diligence work, contributor sourcing, community engagement and more.

Completed

Uganda Blockchain Events Sponsor

The grant will be used to sponsor a couple of events through the Uganda Blockchain group that will bring together the local community for discussions around dYdX, Perpetuals, and more general crypto projects. This is a kickoff grant to determine the popularity of these events.

Kamala Immaculate

Completed

Tradingview Integration

The grant will be used to build a web application that integrates Tradingview strategies into a dYdX Trading account to execute trades directly through a strategy. Users will be able to tap into Tradingview resources and test out different ideas using the app.

Completed