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![fictiondharme Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1684228143736061952.png) ✦ dharme(Ø,G).ink [@fictiondharme](/creator/twitter/fictiondharme) on x XXX followers
Created: 2025-07-18 19:06:14 UTC

Trading isn’t DeFi’s weak link. Infrastructure is.

dYdX realized Ethereum L2 wasn’t made for decentralized, high-frequency derivatives trading.

StarkEx worked, but throughput and control hit limits
Ethereum’s roadmap wasn’t matching dYdX’s trading needs.
So they built their own


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