{"id":68366,"date":"2022-10-10T19:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68366"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:44:30","slug":"former-consensys-executive-appointed-to-lead-dydx-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-consensys-executive-appointed-to-lead-dydx-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ConsenSys executive appointed to lead dYdX Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX has hired former ConsenSys executive Charles Dhaussy as Chief Executive Officer of its foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd94\ud83e\udd41 FOUNDATION UPDATE \ud83e\udd41\ud83e\udd94<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dydxfoundation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dydxfoundation<\/a> is super excited to have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlesdhaussy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@charlesdhaussy<\/a> join as CEO\u203c\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ogLirtHwM0\">https:\/\/t.co\/ogLirtHwM0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5DI4gjGuDX\">pic.twitter.com\/5DI4gjGuDX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dYdX Foundation \ud83e\udd94 (@dydxfoundation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dydxfoundation\/status\/1579440025896644609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the new post, Dhaussy will work to spur growth and development of the dYdX protocol, its community and the dYdX DAO. According to the executive, he plans to structure the work so as to democratise access to financial opportunities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Charles to the post of CEO of the dYdX Foundation. His rich cross-industry experience interacting with diverse stakeholders will be an extremely valuable addition to the foundation and will lead us to the next stage of growth,\u201d said Arthur Cheong, president of the dYdX Foundation\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dhaussy, in comments to The Block, noted that he took up the role on 26 September.<\/p>\n<p>At ConsenSys, he served as managing director for the Asia-Pacific region. In 2018 he ranked among Asia&#8217;s top 50 fintech influencers.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of dYdX Foundation \u2014 the independent organisation headquartered in Zug, Switzerland \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-platform-dydx-to-issue-governance-token-and-distribute-it-to-users\">announced<\/a> in August 2021. Back then, exchange representatives described the framework as an important step on the path to full decentralisation of the dYdX protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, dYdX <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dydx-to-launch-its-own-blockchain-in-the-cosmos-ecosystem\">announced the creation<\/a> of its own Cosmos <span data-descr=\"software development kit\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SDK<\/span>-based network.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX has hired former ConsenSys executive Charles Dhaussy as CEO of its foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1337],"class_list":["post-68366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dydx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68367,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions\/68367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}