Arcus is a decentralized perpetuals exchange and DeFi trading protocol founded by Antonio Juliano as Founder and CEO of dYdX Trading Inc. Arcus's Twitter Score is 409 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #548 (top 0.5%) among 483,288 tracked accounts.
Arcus has reported $1.5T in lifetime volume, $200M in open interest, more than 220 markets, and $12M in MegaVault TVL. The protocol is affiliated with dYdX Foundation, dYdX Grants, and dYdX Operations Trust, with open source software development carried out by dYdX Trading Inc. dba dYdX Labs. In February 2021, Arcus and StarkWare launched a Layer 2 protocol for cross-margined perpetuals. Arcus announced in June 2022 that it was building its fourth version using Tendermint and joining the Cosmos ecosystem, and in September 2023 the dYdX community voted to adopt DYDX as the Layer 1 token powering the dYdX Chain.
Arcus raised a $10M Series B round led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital, followed by a $65M Series C round led by Paradigm. Three Arrows Capital, a former backer of Arcus, was ordered into liquidation by a British Virgin Islands court in June 2022. Additional backers include a16z, Polychain Capital, Wintermute, Electric Capital, and Delphi Digital.
Arcus has continued expanding its product offering: on December 11, 2025, Solana spot trading went live on the platform. On October 10, 2025, the dYdX Chain experienced temporary instability and downtime after market volatility triggered an unforeseen protocol edge case, with funds remaining secure and the chain resuming normal operation on October 11. Arcus has published 7,868 posts and has 368,373 followers as of August 2026. Arcus has been mentioned by 1,347 accounts a total of 4,380 times.
Arcus's portfolio includes L2BEAT.
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The accounts that follow Arcus include 1,536 founders, 400 angel investors, 886 influencers and 59 VCs. Among them are Erik Voorhees, Toly, Solana, Laura Shin, Stani and Kyle Samani.