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DYdX

dYdX offers decentralized perpetual trading with deep liquidity, high leverage, and non-custodial security on its dedicated blockchain.
Cayman Islands
Current stage: Series C8 current maintainers7 active leads2 new active leads7 lead step-downs

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

8

Current maintainers

7

Active leads

2

New active leads

7

Lead step-downs

0

Lead movements

0

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/dydxprotocol

Maintainers (68)

@qardpeetCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Jul 25, 2025
Last merge
Jul 31, 2026
Active lead
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@Sam-dYdXCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Oct 21, 2025
Last merge
Jul 29, 2026
Active lead
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@jaredvuCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Aug 25, 2022
Last merge
Jul 17, 2026
Active leadEarly maintainer
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@KefancaoCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
May 21, 2025
Last merge
Jun 25, 2026
Active lead
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@dankim214Current employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Feb 13, 2026
Last merge
Jun 10, 2026
Active lead
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@kzdydxCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Nov 11, 2024
Last merge
May 15, 2026
Active lead
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@tqin7Former employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Aug 17, 2023
Last merge
May 1, 2026
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@gaonipFormer employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
May 26, 2025
Last merge
Jan 21, 2026
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@pp346Former employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Oct 16, 2025
Last merge
Dec 18, 2025
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@ruixhuangFormer employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Jun 2, 2023
Last merge
Nov 7, 2025
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Maintainer Movements (8)

@v0-e moved lead merge authority to Miden.

Confirmed Sep 5, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge Jun 5, 2025 · First destination merge Aug 18, 2025

@therustmonk moved lead merge authority to Nethermind.

Confirmed Apr 22, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge Jan 22, 2025 · First destination merge Feb 7, 2025

@johnqh moved lead merge authority to Decent.

Confirmed Feb 21, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge May 22, 2024 · First destination merge Feb 21, 2025

@BrendanChou moved lead merge authority to Commonware, Inc..

Confirmed Nov 20, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Aug 15, 2024 · First destination merge Nov 20, 2024

@clemire moved lead merge authority to Towns Protocol.

Confirmed May 21, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Dec 11, 2023 · First destination merge May 21, 2024

@jiajames moved lead merge authority to dYdX Foundation.

Confirmed May 13, 2023 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Feb 13, 2023 · First destination merge Mar 1, 2023

@esemeniuc moved lead merge authority to Jito Labs.

Confirmed Dec 19, 2022 · Observed

Last source merge Jun 13, 2022 · First destination merge Dec 19, 2022

@jaredvu moved lead merge authority to dYdX Foundation.

Confirmed Dec 14, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 14, 2022 · First destination merge Nov 29, 2022