dYdX Maps 2025 Goals: Telegram Trading, Fee Revamp

- dYdX unveils 2025 roadmap with Telegram-based trading and enhanced user tools. - Earnings drop 84% year-over-year, prompting strategic updates. Major decentralized exchange dYdX released its 2025 roadmap, outlining plans for major upgrades to improve its software, user experience, and trading efficiency. On August 28, 2025, Cointelegraph reported that the roadmap highlights features like Telegram-based trading, a capability powered by the July acquisition of social trading app Pocket Protector. Eddie Zhang, Pocket Protector's co-founder, now serves as dYdX’s president and will spearhead these innovations. The roadmap introduces several key updates, including a new partner fee-sharing program that will enable contributors to earn up to 50% of protocol fees for providing liquidity and trading volume. In addition, the exchange is introducing advanced trade execution tools, such as Scale and Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) orders, to help professional traders optimize order fulfillment. A new “designated proposers” mechanism will also reduce trading latency by assigning specific validators to expedite transaction processing. User-focused features are also prominent, with several enhancements planned to improve accessibility and flexibility. These include social logins, customizable fee tiers for reduced trading costs, and a new USDC-to-DYDX token swap integration via the Osmosis protocol. These developments follow recent financial setbacks, as dYdX reported second-quarter 2025 earnings of $3.2 million, an 84% drop from the $20.1 million earned in the same quarter of 2024. The platform's total value locked has also declined, and in October 2024, the company downsized its workforce by 35%. Despite these challenges for individual platforms like dYdX, the broader Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector has expanded significantly in 2025. As a result, the total value locked across all blockchain ecosystems has grown year-to-date, highlighting a sustained demand for DeFi solutions. According to market data, dYdX’s DYDX token was trading at $0.622 as of August 28 at 20:08 UTC, while its 24-hour trading volume had increased by 1.003%.