dYdX Q4 roadmap: Telegram trading and US Solana spot

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dYdX published its Q4 roadmap and launched a Pocket Pro trading bot on Telegram. The bot integrates with dYdX, enabling trading of perpetual contracts and Solana spot tokens inside Telegram, sharing trades with contacts, and leaderboards.
According to the roadmap, spot trading will debut on dYdX with Solana markets on web and mobile. Access is planned globally, including the United States, with additional chains to follow. Perpetuals remain unavailable in the United States, Canada, and other restricted jurisdictions.

The protocol is reviving event‑based prediction market perpetuals, starting with a 2025 World Series market. That market is live now and supports up to 5x leverage.
Recent releases include a Partner Revenue Share program, with CoinRoutes approved as the first participant, and Permissioned Keys that give API traders finer control and risk settings. dYdX added scale and TWAP order types and the ability to set leverage for cross positions.

To improve performance, dYdX released an Order Entry Gateway Service and reduced the set of governance‑selected proposers to lower latency and raise throughput without requiring traders to run full nodes. The iOS and Android apps added MoonPay for card payments, bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal.

On fees, the community voted to simplify tiers from nine to seven with linear volume thresholds. October included a 100% rebate of perpetual trading fees in DYDX for front‑end traders and a $1 million rewards pool under Surge Season 7 managed by Chaos Labs.

Planned features include social login via Turnkey using Google, Apple, or Passkey; staking‑based fee discounts for DYDX stakers; a sliding affiliate fee model that rewards higher‑volume referrers; and optional fee‑free holidays for select markets.

Additional Q4 upgrades on the roadmap include per‑subaccount dynamic leverage up to each market’s maximum, a PnL history view with funding rates on the front end, USDC‑DYDX swaps with staking through an Osmosis integration, and liquidity enhancements to the MegaVault software.

As earlier reported by GNCrypto, on Oct. 30, 2024 dYdX announced a 35% workforce reduction. Founder and CEO Antonio Juliano described the cuts as a realignment with company goals after a period of financial pressure and a brief leadership change.