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dYdX to unlock 6.52M tokens worth $14M for community treasury, rewards


Decentralized exchange (DEX) platform dYdX will unlock $14.02 million worth of DYDX (DYDX) tokens dedicated to the community treasury and rewards for traders and liquidity providers.

On Aug. 29, dYdX will release 6.52 million in-house tokens, representing 3.76% of the DYDX circulating supply. Out of the lot, 2.49 million DYDX tokens — worth $5.36 million — will be allocated to the community treasury. The treasury funds contributor grants, community initiatives and liquidity mining among other programs.

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Upcoming dYdX unlock event. Source: token.unlocks.app

The remaining 4.03 DYDX tokens will be split between liquidity provider rewards (1.15 million tokens worth $2.47 million) and trading rewards (2.88 million tokens worth $6.18 million).

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Full funds allocation for dYdX. Source: token.unlocks.app

dYdX conducted an identical unlock event on Aug. 1 with the same allocation of funds. Data on dYdX’s full allocation from TokenUnlocks suggests that investors hold the highest allocation at 27.7%, followed by trading rewards and community treasury at 20.2% and 16.2% respectively.

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Total unlock progress for dYdX. Source: token.unlocks.app

DYDX comes with a maximum supply of 1 billion tokens and has over 75% of the tokens locked, as shown above.

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dYdX founder Antonio Juliano recently recommended crypto entrepreneurs to explore markets outside the United States.

Juliano emphasized that crypto startups could scale faster overseas in friendlier markets:

“Crypto builders should just give up serving US customers for now and try to re-enter in 5-10 years. It’s not really worth the hassle/compromises. Most of the market is overseas anyways. Innovate there, find PMF

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As the U.S. government continues to drag its heels on establishing crypto regulation, Juliano suggested that the crypto sector needs to grow further to have more sway over U.S. policy.

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