According to @dydxfoundation, an on-chain governance vote is live asking whether to reduce the dYdX Chain active validator set to 42, with voting scheduled to end on Oct 20, 2025 at 16:22 UTC. Source: dYdX Foundation on X, Oct 16, 2025. Traders seeking official materials and live tallies can review the discussion on the dYdX Forum and track on-chain status as Proposal 297 on Mintscan to monitor the outcome at the deadline. Sources: dYdX Forum DRC Reduce Active Validator Set to 42; Mintscan dYdX Proposal 297.

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).

According to @VitalikButerin, the maximum withdrawal rate from the Ethereum validator set is 1/65536 per epoch. If only the Ethereum Foundation (EF) withdraws, it would take approximately 2.6 days to complete. However, if 20% of the stakers decide to withdraw, the process could extend to 58 days. This implies potential impacts on market liquidity and price movements as traders should anticipate varying withdrawal periods based on staker actions.