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+* founded in 2017, dydx is the most popular dex for trading perps and utilizes a central limit orderbook model (rather amm).
+* it on starkware's L2 (migrated from ethereum in 2021) and soon moving to their own standalone cosmos chain (dydx v4). 
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 ### resources