What dYdX and StarkWare’s Partnership Means for DeFi’s Perpetuals & Future(s)

Source: My email

dYdX and Antonio Juliano Zhuoxun Yin Brendan Chou Everett Hu just sent me this handy mail announcing a partnership with StarkWare and their scalability engine, StarkEx.

What this means is that dYdX’s fledgling perpetuals (and later: futures contracts) will be able to execute faster, cheaper, and with more leverage than before.

In practicality, check out this code I wrote to consume some of their dydx-python package:

Insert a private key, and you’ll see output akin to:

Edit some of that code slightly, and you’ll see:

What this means is that as dYdX adds more perpetuals and matching futures contracts to their lineup, we can allocate our equity in baskets matching how much % out of total %…