dYdX
by dYdX Trading Inc. HTTP API in Crypto exchanges
dYdX Trading Inc. · dydx.xyz · status page · who's behind it
dYdX is a perpetuals exchange on its own Cosmos chain. Agents read markets and accounts from the indexer REST and WebSocket API at indexer.dydx.trade and place orders as signed chain transactions through the official TypeScript, Python and Rust clients.
Best for An agent trading perpetuals from its own Cosmos wallet or through a permissioned key on an owner's account, outside the US, Canada and UK.
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Assessment. dYdX gives an agent keyless indexer reads, permissioned keys limited by message type, subaccount and market, a Statuspage with a clean 90 days, published fees and a testnet with a faucet. There is no official MCP server or OpenAPI file, orders are chain transactions signed by the clients, and no one entity operates the hosted endpoints.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Auth
- OAuth or key
- Pricing
- Pay per use · 0.05% fee
- x402
- No
- Licence
- The clients are AGPL-3.0 with a use condition tied to the v4 Terms of Use; the chain software (dydxprotocol/v4-chain) carries a custom licence GitHub cannot classify. The hosted indexer at indexer.dydx.trade and the front end are run by third parties, not dYdX Trading Inc.
- Tools exposed
- 0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
npm@dydxprotocol/v4-client-jspypidydx-v4-client- Docs
- docs.dydx.xyz/
- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
- GitHub stars
- 119
- npm / week
- 86k
From our research 13 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The indexer REST and WebSocket API at indexer.dydx.trade/v4 for reads, and the official clients (TypeScript, Python, Rust) that sign and broadcast chain messages to validator nodes for orders, read from docs.dydx.xyz, the v4-clients repository, npm, PyPI, status.dydx.trade and the terms on 3 November 2026. No wallet was created and no transaction was sent
- MCP server
- None found. Checked docs.dydx.xyz (no mention), the dydxprotocol GitHub organisation (first 18 repositories by push date, none an MCP server) and the official MCP registry, whose search returns only io.github.alekskram/dydx-agent-gateway 0.3.1 and 0.3.2, a third party's PyPI stdio analytics server that holds no keys and is not dYdX's
- What runs on chain
- dYdX Chain is a CometBFT and Cosmos SDK proof-of-stake chain. Orders are chain messages; validators hold the order book in memory outside consensus, the proposer matches and the matches commit in the next block. Short-term orders live at most 20 blocks (about 30 seconds), long-term orders up to 95 days. The indexer, the front ends and the Order Entry Gateway are off chain; the docs say dYdX Trading Inc. runs none of them
- Key permissions
- Authenticators (permissioned keys) added by the owner with the trader's public key and filters, MessageFilter by gRPC message type, SubaccountFilter and ClobPairIdFilter, composed with AllOf or AnyOf. Withdrawals and transfers can be excluded. No position size, order size or margin limits. Removed by
remove_authenticator. The dydx.trade interface issues an API wallet with default permission to trade all cross-margin pairs - Rate limits
- Indexer 100 requests per 10 seconds per IP; WebSocket channel caps of 256 (accounts) and 32 (candles, markets, orderbook, trades) per connection. Per account, 2 stateful order placements a block and 20 per 100 blocks; 4,000 short-term placements and cancellations per 5 blocks; failed attempts count. Public node endpoints from Polkachu (300 a minute) and KingNodes (350 a minute). Current values at /dydxprotocol/clob/block_rate
- Testnet
- indexer.v4testnet.dydx.exchange (HTTP and WebSocket) with public testnet nodes and a faucet at faucet.v4testnet.dydx.exchange. The docs' examples use the testnet indexer
- Countries
- The v4 Terms of Use exclude persons who reside in, are located in, are incorporated in or are controlled from the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom for the perpetuals software, plus Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Myanmar, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and sanctioned parties. Integrators must geo-block themselves;
/v4/geoand/v4/compliance/screen/{address}answer with a blocked flag and a compliance status - Fees
- Tier 1 (under $1 million of 30-day volume) 5.0 bps taker and 1.0 bps maker, down to 3.5 bps taker at $25 million or more and 0.5 bps maker at the $5 million tier, set by the governance community, uniform across markets. Gas on each transaction. Fees and gas go to staking rewards for validators and delegators
- WebSocket and FIX
- wss://indexer.dydx.trade/v4/ws with subaccount, orderbook, trades, candles, markets and block-height channels; compression (permessage-deflate) required since 26 October 2026. Full-node gRPC streaming for order book state. No FIX
- Terms on automated trading
- dYdX Trading Inc.'s v4 Terms of Use (12 March 2026) don't mention APIs or bots; MegaVault's annex describes automated strategies. dYdX International Ltd's site terms (6 June 2025) forbid any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us, and ask users to keep API keys confidential
- Errors
- Indexer responses document 400 (malformed or invalid) and 404 (not found) by status only; order rejections come back as chain transaction results. No error code list or 429 guidance found
- SDKs
- @dydxprotocol/v4-client-js 3.6.0 (AGPL-3.0, Node 24, trusted publishing with SLSA provenance, 86,394 weekly downloads), dydx-v4-client 1.1.6 on PyPI (12 February 2026) and a Rust client, the Python and Rust ones developed by Nethermind inside the official repository (119 stars, 36 open issues). A C++ client is a third-party grant project
- Legal entity
- dYdX Trading Inc. (dba dYdX Labs) licenses the software and sponsors the bug bounty; dYdX International Ltd, Cayman Islands, runs dydx.xyz; the dydx.trade front end is operated by the dYdX Operations subDAO per the docs' compliance page and app listings. No entity is named for indexer.dydx.trade
Facts verified 3 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Permissioned keys limit a delegated key to chosen message types, subaccounts and markets, exclude withdrawals and transfers, and are removed with
remove_authenticator - status.dydx.trade lists Indexer, Chain, Order Gateway and Client Libraries components, with only maintenance windows and one partner deposit delay in the last 90 days
- Fees public at 5.0 bps taker and 1.0 bps maker at the lowest tier, with rate limits and block limits stated with numbers
- Official TypeScript, Python and Rust clients with CI and trusted publishing, and a testnet with a faucet
- A Cantina bug bounty up to $1,000,000 sponsored by dYdX Trading Inc. covering the protocol, indexer, web client and client SDKs
Weaknesses
- No official MCP server; the one registry entry is a third party's analytics server
- No OpenAPI file for the indexer; error responses are described by HTTP status only, and chain rejections surface as transaction results
- No 429 handling or Retry-After documented for the indexer; permissioned keys cannot cap position or order size
- The hosted indexer and front end are run by unnamed third parties; dYdX Trading Inc. says it runs none of the components
- Restricted to persons outside the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, with geo-blocking left to each integrator
Before you call it notes for agents
- Ask the account owner for an authenticator limited to
/dydxprotocol.clob.MsgPlaceOrderandMsgCancelOrderon one subaccount, and keep its private key out of prompts - Set a unique 32-bit
clientIdon every order and look it up on/v4/ordersafter a timeout; short-term orders expire withgoodTilBlock(at most 20 blocks ahead) - Stay under 2 stateful orders a block and 20 per 100 blocks; failed placements count, so use short-term orders for active trading
- Enable permessage-deflate on the indexer WebSocket; since 26 October 2026 connections without compression may be refused with 426
- Check
/v4/geoand the compliance screen before trading for a person, since the terms exclude the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Who's behind it provenance 50/100
- Legal entity nameddYdX Trading Inc.20/20
- Domain agedydx.xyz, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domain is not on dydx.xyz0/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points6.3/10
- Privacy policyread, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects9.3/10
- Status pagestatus.dydx.trade10/10
- Changelognot found0/10
- security.txtcould not be fetched0/10
- People named1 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service dated 2026-03-12, states 5 of 7, 3 to know
TL;DR Dated 2026-03-12. States 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find how changes are announced or a service level. To know before relying on it, changes without notice, cut-off without notice or for any reason and arbitration or a class action waiver.
Says the terms or the service can change without noticecosts points
We may change or discontinue supporting dYdX software at any time and without notice at our sole discretion.
A customer may not hear about a change before it applies.
Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason
DTI reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify, suspend or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, for any reason whatsoever, dYdX Software or the Licensed Code (or any part thereof) with or without notice.
The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.
Requires arbitration or waives class actions
Except for certain kinds of disputes described in Section 11 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), you agree that disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, and BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND DTI ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLAS…
Disputes go to an arbitrator, or a customer gives up joining a class action or a jury trial.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-03-12
Last updated March 12, 2026
Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.
Names the governing law or courts The law of the State of California
…related to these Terms or dYdX Software, will be governed by and construed and enforced under the laws of the State of California, as applicable, without regard to conflict of law rules or principles (whether of the State of California or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any othe…
Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.
States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 2 months before the claim
…(including negligence), civil liability, statute, strict liability or other theory of liability, will not exceed the amount of fees paid by you to DTI or a Deployer of dYdX Software or derivative work thereof, if any, in the two (2) month period immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim for liability.
Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.
Says how the agreement or account can be ended
THIS SECTION EXTENDS TO DISPUTES THAT AROSE OR INVOLVE FACTS OCCURING BEFORE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS OR ANY PRIOR VERSIONS OF THESE TERMS AS WELL AS DISPUTES THAT MAY ARISE AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THESE TERMS.
Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.
Says how changes to the terms are announced
Not found in the text.
Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.
Lists what users may not do
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT (I) YOU MUST NOT MODIFY, DISASSEMBLE, DECOMPILE, ADAPT, ALTER, TRANSLATE, REVERSE ENGINEER OR CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF DYDX SOFTWARE TO MAKE SUCH DYDX SOFTWARE OR DERIVATIVES OF SUCH SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO ANY RESTRICTED PERSONS;
The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.
Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Not found in the text.
Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.
Liability is capped at the fees paid to DTI or a deployer in the two months before the event giving rise to the claim.
will not exceed the amount of fees paid by you to DTI or a Deployer of dYdX Software or derivative work thereof, if any, in the two (2) month period immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim for liability.
Noted by a second reader on 2026-11-03.
Any claim must be filed within one year of arising or it is permanently barred.
Any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or dYdX Software must be filed within one (1) year after such claim arose; otherwise, the claim is permanently barred, which means that you and DTI will not have the right to assert the claim.
Noted by a second reader on 2026-11-03.
Persons or entities in, incorporated in, or operated or controlled from the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom may not use the perpetuals trading software.
Persons or entities who reside in, are located in, are incorporated in, have a registered office or principal place of business in, or are operated or controlled from, the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom; and
Noted by a second reader on 2026-11-03.
The document · read 2026-11-03 · 10,396 words
Privacy policy dated 2025-06-06, states 7 of 8
TL;DR Dated 2025-06-06. States 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find a privacy contact. The rules found no clause to flag.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2025-06-06
Last updated 6 June 2025
Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.
Says what personal data is collected
In this Privacy Notice, we explain how we collect your personal data when you use our websites or any other websites, pages, features, or content we own or operate, obtain services from us, interact with us in relation with a contract, communicate with us, when you use any API that we developed or third-party applicat…
The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.
Says how long data is kept For as long as needed, with no period named
We only process your data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of complying with legal retention requirements and where required to assert or defend against legal claims, until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been…
Says when data sent to the service is deleted.
Says who else receives the data
If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, you must ensure that the data is accurate and that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it i…
Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.
Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
A plain statement either way.
Says what rights people have over their data
Where we process data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent.
Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.
Gives a privacy contact
Not found in the text.
An address or officer to send a request to.
Says where data is transferred or stored Relies on standard contractual clauses
…subject to safeguards that assure the protection of your data, such as the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses.
The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.
Behavioural and preference data may be analysed on a personally identifiable basis, for example to show personalised advertising.
Behavioral and preference data may be analyzed on a personally identifiable basis (for example to show you personalized advertising), but also on a non-identifiable basis (for example for market research or product development).
Noted by a second reader on 2026-11-03.
Data is combined with third party data such as from address brokers, including household size, income bracket and purchasing power.
We combine this data with other data we obtain from third parties, such as address brokers, administrative offices and publicly available sources (e.g., the internet), such as information about your household size, income bracket and purchasing power
Noted by a second reader on 2026-11-03.
The document · read 2026-11-03 · 5,400 words
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
dYdX Trading Inc. is the entity in the v4 Terms of Use (last updated 12 March 2026), the clients' licence and the Cantina bug bounty. dydx.xyz's terms and privacy policy (6 June 2025) name dYdX International Ltd, Cayman Islands, and its footer reads dYdX International Ltd.
The indexer at indexer.dydx.trade is not on dydx.xyz and the docs say dYdX Trading Inc. runs none of the hosted components, so the endpoint is recorded as off the vendor's domain.
RDAP for dydx.trade answered 404 at the Identity Digital and rdap.org services, so the domain age is unchecked; the vendor domain dydx.xyz was not queried.
status.dydx.trade is an Atlassian Statuspage with five components and an RSS history; its robots.txt disallows /api/ and /embed/, so the history was read from /history.rss.
https://dydx.trade/.well-known/security.txt answered the app's HTML page, so security.txt is unknown. No API changelog; protocol upgrades appear as status maintenance entries.
Checked 2026-11-03 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Antonio JulianoFounder
dYdX Trading Inc. on @dYdX GitHub
Raised $75M across the Series B and Series C in total, as of June 2021 source
Backed byParadigm,Three Arrows Capital,DeFiance Capital,Andreessen Horowitz,Bain Capital Ventures,Electric Capital
Researched 3 November 2026 from public pages. Antonio Juliano's role comes from his own post on the company blog; whether he is CEO today is not stated on a dYdX page read (press reports say he returned as CEO in late 2024). No LinkedIn or X account for him is linked from a dYdX page. dydx.xyz has no about or team page; its footer names dYdX International Ltd and the disclaimers dYdX Trading Inc. dba dYdX Labs. Investors come from The Block's report of 15 June 2021 on the $65 million Series C led by Paradigm, which also lists the January 2021 Series B and earlier backers; no funding post was found on dydx.xyz's blog (its index goes back to January 2026) and the Paradigm portfolio page answered 404. Ownership private from the terms and the blog. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-04 18:57 UTC
- Vendor status page all systems normal, All Systems Operational · 10 minutes ago
- security.txt none · 3 hours ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/dydx.json
Notable
- No official MCP server. The official MCP registry's search for dydx lists only io.github.alekskram/dydx-agent-gateway 0.3.2, a third party's analytics-only PyPI stdio server; the docs and the dydxprotocol GitHub organisation have none source
- What runs on chain. Validators keep the order book in memory, off chain and outside consensus; the block proposer matches orders and the result is committed on chain. The indexer is a read-only off-chain stack (Postgres, Redis, Kafka) and the docs say none of the components are run by dYdX Trading Inc. source
- Permissioned keys compose SignatureVerification, MessageFilter, SubaccountFilter and ClobPairIdFilter under AllOf or AnyOf, can exclude withdrawals and transfers, and cannot yet set position or order size limits or margin caps source
- Rate limits are 100 indexer requests per 10 seconds per IP, 2 stateful order placements a block and 20 per 100 blocks, and 4,000 short-term placements and cancellations per 5 blocks per account; failed attempts count source
- status.dydx.trade is an Atlassian Statuspage with Frontends, dYdX Chain, Indexer, Order Gateway and Client Libraries components; between 1 August and 3 November 2026 it lists seven maintenance windows (protocol v9.7 on 11 September, v9.8.0 on 12 October, indexer WebSocket compression required on 26 and 28 October) and one degraded instant-deposit partner source
- The v4 Terms of Use of dYdX Trading Inc. (12 March 2026) restrict the perpetuals software to persons outside the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and sanctioned territories, and say DTI does not deploy the software or operate any interface; dydx.xyz is run by dYdX International Ltd (Cayman Islands) under terms of 6 June 2025 source
- @dydxprotocol/v4-client-js 3.6.0 (AGPL-3.0, GitHub Actions trusted publishing with provenance) and dydx-v4-client 1.1.6 on PyPI (12 February 2026); v4-clients was pushed on 29 October 2026 source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 3 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 3 November 2026 | 16%20 | 16.6 | |
Read with the hosted lines on the indexer API and the chain endpoints the clients submit to. status.dydx.trade is an Atlassian Statuspage with Frontends, dYdX Chain, Indexer, Order Gateway and Client Libraries components and an RSS history (20). From 1 August to 3 November 2026 the feed has eight items, seven scheduled maintenance windows of 29 minutes to 2 hours (indexer on 9 September, 8 and 15 October, protocol v9.7 on 11 September and v9.8.0 on 12 October, WebSocket compression on 26 and 28 October) and one degraded instant-deposit path through an onboarding partner from 24 to 29 September, outside the trading API. Clean or trivial (30). Rate limits documented with numbers for the indexer, the block limits and the public nodes (15). No 429 shape or Retry-After for the indexer; short-term orders expire by goodTilBlock and client IDs let an agent find an order after a timeout (8 of 15). No SLA (0). Mainnet generally available; the Order Entry Gateway is marked testnet-only (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 83. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 3 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 9.4 | |
| No OpenAPI file found for the indexer; the docs publish a types reference of about 200 pages (OrderSide, TimeInForce, OrderStatus and the rest) and the chain's protobuf messages are in the clients (8 of 25). llms.txt and Markdown docs (10). Endpoint pages describe each call and the guides say when to use short-term against long-term orders and the indexer against the node, but descriptions are short (12 of 20). Enums and types on every field in the reference, with pagination and cursor parameters typed (11 of 15). Examples in Python, TypeScript and Rust for each step; errors are described by HTTP status (400 malformed, 404 not found) with no code list (9 of 15). A /v4 path, protocol releases dated on the status page, deprecated rate-limit fields marked, but no API changelog (8 of 15). Total 58. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 3 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 10.7 | |
An API, read for response sizing. limit on list endpoints, candles by resolution, sparklines by period; the order book comes whole (16 of 25). limit, page on fills, transfers and funding, and height or time cursors (16 of 20). Indexer errors are a status and a sentence; order rejections come back from the chain as transaction results the clients surface (8 of 20). Unique 32-bit client IDs, goodTilBlock expiry on short-term orders, cancel by order ID; no MCP annotations apply (14 of 20). Few required fields with market parameters fetched for unit conversion, and official clients in TypeScript, Python and Rust (12 of 15). Total 66. | |||
| Security & authchecked 3 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 13.7 | |
Orders are signed by the account key or by a permissioned key the owner adds as an authenticator, limited by message type, subaccount and market with AllOf or AnyOf, and revoked by remove_authenticator; no shared secret and nothing in a URL (28 of 30). A key can be confined to placing and cancelling orders on one subaccount with withdrawals and transfers excluded, though not to a position or order size, and the interface's default API wallet trades all cross-margin pairs (16 of 20). The API returns no untrusted content (10). Every action is a chain transaction and the indexer lists fills, orders and transfers per subaccount, and authenticators can be listed; no per-key log (10 of 15). A Cantina bug bounty up to $1,000,000 sponsored by dYdX Trading Inc. over the protocol, indexer, web client and SDKs, an Informal Systems audit; no security.txt and no certification (14 of 20). Total 78. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 3 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 7.5 | |
| No machine payment protocol (0). Fees public per tier without login (20). Testnet with a faucet and no card anywhere (20). No signup; an agent with a funded wallet trades, subject to the geographic terms (20). Total 60. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 3 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 7.3 | |
| Read on the clients and the chain. v4-clients was pushed on 29 October 2026 and protocol v9.8.0 shipped on 12 October (30). Protocol v9.7 on 11 September, v9.8.0 on 12 October, v4-client-js tags 3.5.0 and 3.6.0, three or more in 90 days (20). A Discord, a help centre and 36 open issues on v4-clients whose replies couldn't be read (12 of 25). Official SDKs current, the TypeScript client at 3.6.0 and the Python client at 1.1.6 from February 2026 (12 of 15). CI workflows for lint, test, publish and audit, with trusted publishing and provenance on npm (9 of 10). Total 83. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 50, provenance 50checked 3 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 4.4 | |
| The editorial half. Clients AGPL-3.0 with a terms-bound use condition, the chain under a custom licence, two terms documents (dYdX Trading Inc.'s v4 terms of 12 March 2026 and dYdX International Ltd's of 6 June 2025) that are clear about who runs nothing (22 of 30). The privacy policy of 6 June 2025 names dYdX International Ltd, keeps technical data until no longer necessary with no periods, and names no subprocessors; nothing covers the unnamed indexer operator (12 of 30). Protocol upgrades and the WebSocket compression change were posted as dated maintenance notices, deprecated rate-limit fields are marked, but no deprecation policy or notice period is stated (10 of 20). The policy says data may be processed in the EEA and elsewhere, with no subprocessor list (6 of 20). Total 50. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 69.5 · B | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
Score history no moves since it was graded
Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS
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Graded 69.5 B methodology v0.7
Fix list 22 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on dYdX. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- unchecked: who operates indexer.dydx.trade, oegs.dydx.trade and the dydx.trade front end. The docs say dYdX Trading Inc. runs none of the components and the compliance page points to the open-source terms; app listings name the dYdX Operations subDAO for the front end.
- unchecked: RDAP for dydx.trade (404 at two RDAP services) and dydx.xyz, so domain age is absent from provenance.
- unchecked: whether an OpenAPI or Swagger file exists for the indexer; none is linked from the docs read.
- unchecked: replies on the 36 open v4-clients issues and whether the Discord answers (github.com issue pages and Discord weren't read).
- Judgement call, no deduction. The indexer WebSocket started refusing uncompressed connections with 426 on 26 and 28 October 2026, posted as scheduled maintenance on status.dydx.trade; how far ahead the notice went up wasn't established from the feed, so it is recorded here and in agentNotes rather than deducted.
- firstReleased is 16 August 2023, the creation date of the v4-clients repository, the earliest first-hand date found for the v4 surface; the chain's mainnet date was not read first-hand. lastRelease is the 29 October 2026 push to v4-clients.
- Judgement call on kind. Listed as http-api on the hosted indexer and the chain endpoints the official clients call; the order book runs in validators' memory and matches commit on chain, recorded under details. The lowest-tier maker fee of 1.0 bps is read from the rewards page's tier table, which the fetch summarised; the fee-free BTC and SOL markets reported by third parties were not found on a dYdX page.
- Our own products. It doesn't do LocalGhost's or letme's job. Graded the normal way.
Sources 28
- docs landing page docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- docs llms.txt docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- endpoints (indexer, nodes, testnet, faucet) docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- indexer HTTP API docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- trading guide (orders, client IDs, goodTilBlock) docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- permissioned keys guide docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- authenticators concept docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- rate limits docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- rewards, fees and parameters docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- architecture overview (on chain and off chain) docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- integration compliance (geo-blocking) docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- docs terms page docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- docs security page docs.dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- v4 Terms of Use, dYdX Trading Inc. dydx.exchange · seen 2026-11-03
- dydx.xyz terms of use, dYdX International Ltd dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- privacy policy dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- status page status.dydx.trade · seen 2026-11-03
- status history feed status.dydx.trade · seen 2026-11-03
- status robots.txt status.dydx.trade · seen 2026-11-03
- bug bounty on Cantina cantina.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- official MCP registry search registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · seen 2026-11-03
- dydxprotocol repositories api.github.com · seen 2026-11-03
- v4-clients repository (stars, issues) and shallow clone api.github.com · seen 2026-11-03
- npm @dydxprotocol/v4-client-js latest registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-03
- npm weekly downloads api.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-03
- PyPI release feed dydx-v4-client pypi.org · seen 2026-11-03
- dydx.xyz home (footer entity) dydx.xyz · seen 2026-11-03
- security.txt (HTML page returned) dydx.trade · seen 2026-11-03
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Pay per use 0.05% fee The indexer and clients have no charge. Trading fees at the lowest tier (under $1 million of 30-day volume) are 5.0 bps taker and 1.0 bps maker, set by governance, uniform across markets, with gas on each transaction; fees flow to validators and stakers (https://docs.dydx.xyz/concepts/trading/rewards, checked 2026-11-03).
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taker fee, tier 1 | 0.05% | percentage fee | 5.0 bps of notional; maker 1.0 bps |
Compared across listings on the price index.
Recent changes
- security.txt on dydx.xyz is none, the listing says unknown source
- Latest release
Follow them as a feed at /feeds/tools/dydx.xml, or this listing's score history at history.json.
Connect
Install
npm install @dydxprotocol/v4-client-jsFirst request
curl https://indexer.dydx.trade/v4/orderbooks/perpetualMarket/ETH-USDThrough letme picks today, calling later
GET https://letme.dev/dydxletme.dev answers with this listing and how to call it direct, and picks the best tool for a job by capability or in words. Nothing on letme.dev is for people to look at; this page explains it.
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperliquid Hyperliquid Labs | D | 50 | exchange.derivatives exchange.market-data exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto wallet.onchain | no |
| Gemini Exchange API Gemini Trust Company, LLC | BB | 74.6 | exchange.market-data exchange.derivatives exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto | no |
| Kraken API Payward, Inc. | BB | 71 | exchange.market-data exchange.derivatives exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto | no |
| OKX API OKX | B | 64.3 | exchange.market-data exchange.derivatives exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto | no |
| Binance API Binance | B | 63.2 | exchange.market-data exchange.derivatives exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto | no |
| Bitfinex API iFinex Inc. | C | 58.4 | exchange.market-data exchange.derivatives exchange.balances exchange.transfers exchange.staking market.crypto | no |
Machine-readable
- JSON
/api/v1/tools/dydx.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/dydx.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/dydx.xml - Markdown
/tools/dydx.md· slim/tools/dydx.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/dydx.md·/fixes/dydx.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool dydx --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "dydx"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT dydx.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
For vendors
Verify this listing
For the vendorIs this your product? Link to this page from your own site or README, then tell us where. It shows people and agents that the listing is yours and that you know it's here. It never changes a grade, rank or review.
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Add the badge or a link
On a light page On a dark page <a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dydx"><img src="https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/dydx.svg" alt="dYdX on Anchor Terminal" height="20"></a>[](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dydx)<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dydx">dYdX on Anchor Terminal</a>It counts on a page on dydx.xyz or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/dydxprotocol/v4-clients.
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Tell us where it is
We read it once now and again every week. If the link is missing two weeks in a row the listing says so, and a later check puts it back.
Agents send the same to POST /api/v1/verify as {"slug": "dydx", "url": "…"}, or call the verify_listing tool at /mcp. Ten checks an hour from one address. What we check. To announce the listing, get sharing assets for social media.
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For the vendorGet sharing assets for social media. Two images say dYdX is listed on Anchor Terminal, with your logo and this page's address, one for a dark feed and one for a light one. They carry no grade or score, so they stay right when a score moves.
Link the post to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dydx. The logo is the one on this listing. If it's wrong or out of date, send us the right one.