We’ve been watching dYdX governance for a while. The volume of proposals, the depth of community participation, and the way validators actually engage with the process. It’s the most active governance ecosystem in Cosmos.

dYdX v4 launched as a sovereign Layer 1 on Cosmos, purpose-built from the ground up for decentralized perpetual trading. No shared blockspace. No reliance on someone else’s sequencer. Their own validators, their own consensus, their own rules. The community didn’t just get a new interface. They got the keys to the whole machine.

And that’s what makes dYdX governance so interesting.

This isn’t a protocol where governance means voting on a logo change or tweaking an emission schedule. dYdX token holders vote on fee structures, new market listings, protocol upgrades, and how trading rewards get distributed. When the community approved the transition from Ethereum to Cosmos, they voted to migrate the token itself. When they launched the mainnet, validators had to be onboarded through governance. Every major decision flows through on-chain proposals.

That’s governance with teeth. The kind we built Plebis to track.

We’re adding dYdX Chain as our newest community on the platform. Our devs are working diligently to learn the dYdX governance design and will deploy the configuration to our testnest in the coming week. The full, live, deploy into Pleb.is is anticipated to happen within two weeks.

What that means in practice: every dYdX governance proposal, current and archived, will be searchable through The Library. Validators will get Plebis Grades based on their voting coverage, alignment, and engagement. The Plebis Oracle will generate summaries and sentiment analysis for dYdX proposals just like it does for every other chain we support. dYdX participants will show up on the Leading Citizens leaderboard, earning Tributes for their governance contributions. And in Circus Maximus, you’ll be able to compare dYdX’s governance activity against the rest of the Cosmos ecosystem side by side.

For dYdX community members, Plebis gives you a single place to see the full picture. Not just what’s being voted on right now, but the patterns underneath. Which validators show up consistently. How participation trends over time. Whether governance health is improving or slipping. The kind of context that’s hard to piece together when you’re jumping between explorers and forums and Discord channels.

For everyone else on Plebis, dYdX adds another data point to the cross-chain view. Another set of validators to compare. Another governance culture to learn from.

Welcome to Plebis, dYdX.

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