According to dYdX Foundation, the community has passed a governance vote to approve eight nominated validators as the initial designated proposer set, confirming the outcome on the referenced Mintscan proposal page (source: dYdX Foundation on X; source: Mintscan proposal page referenced in the announcement). For traders, the establishment of a designated proposer set directly ties to who proposes blocks and how consensus progresses, which is foundational for transaction inclusion and network operations in Tendermint-style Proof-of-Stake systems (source: Tendermint Core documentation).