Antonio Juliano

Antonio Juliano is the founder of dYdX, the decentralized exchange for perpetual futures that grew into one of the largest derivatives venues in crypto, with over $1 trillion in trading volume since 2021. A Princeton computer science graduate, he joined Coinbase as an engineer in 2015, where exposure to Ethereum and smart contracts convinced him to build onchain, first with the decentralized-web search engine Weipoint and then, in 2017, with dYdX, after earlier engineering stints at Uber and MongoDB. Under his leadership dYdX pioneered decentralized margin trading and perpetuals, adopted zero-knowledge rollup scaling with StarkWare, and eventually migrated to its own Cosmos-based appchain in 2023. In May 2024 he stepped down as CEO to become chairman and president, then returned to the CEO seat months later in what he described as founder mode, a journey he has discussed candidly on the podcast circuit.

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