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Contributor tenure at admin-permissioned PR

dYdX v4 (dYdX Chain)'s assessment for RD-F-116 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Cosmos x/gov model: no EVM-style admin-permissioned PRs that directly execute on-chain changes. Binary release signing (the closest analog) performed by dYdX Labs engineering team, which has been active on the dydxprotocol GitHub org since 2018 (v1 dYdX). v4-chain repo active since 2022 pre-mainnet. 179+ contributors in past year with most recent commit 2026-05-14. Long-tenured contributor base; no evidence of recent short-tenure contributor granted admin-equivalent signing permissions.

Sources #

  • GitHub
    GitHub - dydxprotocol/v4-chain: dydx v4 protocoldydxprotocol/v4-chain GitHub repo -- last commit date and contributor countretrieved 2026-05-17
  • Internal
    dYdX v4 data cache -- GitHub fields00-data-cache.json github.last_commit_date: 2026-05-14retrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Measure the number of days contributing to the repo of the author of the most recent admin-permissioned code change.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol dydx-v4 factor RD-F-116 score green collected_at 2026-05-17 09:58:47