Overall influence
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David Gogel
@dgogeldYdX COO
David Gogel is the COO of dYdX, offering perspectives from both trading platform operations and cryptocurrency products. His public investments focus on areas such as cross-chain trading, staking liquidity, and on-chain lending, demonstrating a sustained interest in DeFi infrastructure.
Career years
1 yearsAffiliated organizations
--Personal investments
3 orgsMedia exposure
80 times / monthNet worth
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Person Profile
David Gogel is the COO of dYdX, offering perspectives from both trading platform operations and cryptocurrency products. His public investments focus on areas such as cross-chain trading, staking liquidity, and on-chain lending, demonstrating a sustained interest in DeFi infrastructure.
Early projects that lean towards the integration of infrastructure and applications emphasize product usability, capital efficiency, and on-chain native demand; the style is relatively pragmatic, tending to make judgments around core scenarios such as trading, staking, and lending.
Recent public information shows that he continues to take on a central role in the operation of dYdX while maintaining a focus on key areas in DeFi; it is evident that the investment themes are concentrated in directions such as cross-chain trading, liquid staking, and collateralized lending.
Birthplace--
EducationHe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
Career years1 years
Affiliated organizations--
Personal investments3 orgs · Unicorn 0
Media exposure80 times / month
AI Style ProfilePragmatists · Product Perspective · Relatively conservative
Dominant characteristicsPragmatists
More focus is placed on whether real trading and capital efficiency issues can be solved, rather than chasing short-term narratives; the chosen projects mostly revolve around the core infrastructure of DeFi.
Comparative advantageProduct Perspective
The operational background from dYdX makes it easier to evaluate projects from the perspectives of user experience, liquidity, and market structure, rather than only looking at the popularity of concepts.
Main ControversyRelatively conservative
Investment themes are relatively concentrated in infrastructure and financial primitives. The advantage is stability, but they may also be perceived as lacking coverage for more aggressive new narratives.
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Career
dYdX COO
David Gogel is the COO of dYdX.
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Related Entities
fomo
DeFiCross-chain trading app
Ion Protocol
DeFiPledge Asset Liquidity Solution
Goldlink
DeFiUnder-collateralized lending protocols on-chain
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Investment Preferences
Compliance InfrastructureHeavy position
Preferences for underlying capabilities related to trading, clearing, liquidity, and capital efficiency align with its business context at dYdX.
Cross-chain tradingAttention
The cross-chain trading application fomo has been publicly launched, indicating its focus on entry points for trading and user aggregation in a multi-chain environment.
Pledged LiquidityAttention
Invest in Ion Protocol, reflecting an interest in the liquidity of staked assets and enhancing capital efficiency.
On-chain lendingAttention
Investing in Goldlink demonstrates the exploratory value of recognizing new types of credit and lending structures, such as under-collateralized loans.
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Investment Activity
fomo · Series B
DeFi
fomo · Series A
DeFi
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Network
Core business
dYdX
Early project
Ion Protocol
Early project
Goldlink
Early project
fomo
Co-investor
Alex Pack
Co-investor
Ryan Watkins
Co-investor
Vijay Chetty
Institutional co-investor
Benchmark
Institutional co-investor
Polychain
David Gogel’s network is centered on the dYdX ecosystem, a set of co-investment ties with crypto founders and investors, and several early-stage projects. Public evidence does not clearly show prior employers or direct colleague links, so the network is driven mainly by project and investment overlap.
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David Gogel@dgogel · 23 days agoOpinion output@Josh_E_Wa Congrats
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
David Gogel@dgogel · 23 days agoOpinion outputRT @arcus_xyz: Pictured: friends who refer friends, who refer friends, who refer friends. https://t.co/B9E6rVhkdi
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
David Gogel@dgogel · 24 days agoSector impactWorth saying: volume alone wouldn't mean much. Market makers can generate a lot of it. Account counts are harder to explain that way. These are people logging in at 11pm and on Sunday afternoons.
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AI: Theme-oriented investment view, reinforcing conviction in infrastructure and new narratives.
David Gogel@dgogel · 24 days agoOpinion outputWe built Arcus around the idea that equities should trade around the clock. Three weeks in, off-hours is where most of the activity is. NVDA, TSLA, AAPL and more, whenever. https://t.co/14pmCpNSCY
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
David Gogel@dgogel · 24 days agoSector impactThree weeks of @arcus_xyz data and one thing keeps showing up: people want to trade stocks and RWAs at hours the stock market doesn't offer. Some numbers. https://t.co/ZyVoDafBQx
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AI: Theme-oriented investment view, reinforcing conviction in infrastructure and new narratives.
David Gogel@dgogel · 24 days agoSector impactWeek two we were celebrating $33M. This week: $100M. All-time → $109M total volume (33% spot / 67% perps) → 4,800 spot traders → 180 perps traders live in beta / 80K in waitlist → $17M TVL Under the hood → Spot driven by stocks + commodities → Perps driven by stocks + crypto → ~68% of RWA volume trades outside RTH (nights/weekends) Still early 🫡
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AI: Theme-oriented investment view, reinforcing conviction in infrastructure and new narratives.
David Gogel@dgogel · 24 days agoPolicy impactRT @paxoslabs: Every exchange that supports multiple stablecoins has a routing problem. @arcus_xyz solved it by building every market on @…
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AI: Policy-driven commentary with emphasis on compliance rollout and clearer rules.
David Gogel@dgogel · 25 days agoOpinion outputRT @FINTECHTVglobal: More than half of stock token trading volume happens while the markets are closed. @epic_edge_ of @arcus_xyz tells @J…
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
David Gogel@dgogel · 25 days agoOpinion outputRT @arcus_xyz: stock markets close. news doesn't. that gap has always belonged to professionals. Arcus is where it stops being a privilege…
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
David Gogel@dgogel · 25 days agoOpinion outputRT @arcus_xyz: What's actually backing the dollar you settle in? Most traders never ask... until the depeg, or the spread that quietly eats…
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AI: Continues the public long-term stance, emphasizing execution efficiency and industry direction.
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