Buyback Radar

dYdX DYDX

Payout off peakRank#44▼5Score27

Paid to holders this week: 41% of the best week in 90 days ($53k against $129k), while revenue −15% over 30 days. Also: holders revenue is paid out, not a buyback.

Derivatives, dYdX, Ethereum, 192 days of data

Market cap

$75.2M

price $0.0886 · 7d −16.8% · 30d −32.1%

FDV $84.2M (1.1× market cap)

source defillama

Counted per year

$1.5M

holders revenue of the last 30 days, $240k, × 365 ÷ 30, × type factor 0.5 (payouts count 50%)

Distributionbuyback share 100%

Pays out 3.9% of its market cap a year, using 100¢ of every $1 it earns.

Not a buyback: counts for 50% in the multiple (type factor 0.5), so the denominator is $1.5M instead of $2.9M.

Multiple

51.6×

peer median 20.7× (Derivatives, 6 tokens), against 51.6× here

Run-rate

54.6×

last 7 days $53k × 52 × 0.5 (type factor) = $1.4M a year

last week's payout in line with the 30-day pace

What we checked

  1. Valuation

    Multiple 51.6× (type factor 0.5: payouts count 50%), 2.5× more expensive than its Derivatives peers (median 20.7×, 6 tokens). The group's largest earner Hyperliquid trades at 20.2×: 2.6× dearer per dollar returned to holders. On total revenue: 25.8×, 2.2× dearer than the revenue peer median.

  2. Distribution

    Distribution: Revenue is paid out to stakers or holders (often in another asset); no buy pressure on the token. Holders got $240k of $240k revenue in 30 days → buyback share 100%. DefiLlama: “Staking Rewards: 100% of trading fees distributed to DYDX token stakers via the staking rewards mechanism”

  3. Sustainability

    Holders were paid on 30 of 30 days (100%); largest single day 8% of the month's holders revenue; paid to holders this week: 41% of the best week in 90 days (more than half below peak). Revenue −14% over 7 days and −15% over 30 days, price −32% over 30 days.

What this does not tell you

The figures come from DefiLlama's adapter for each child protocol. Only a few tokens have an on-chain check (see How the buyback really works); for the rest, whether the tokens were really bought, burned or parked in a treasury wallet is not checked here. Unlocks count where DefiLlama or our research has a vesting schedule; team discretion and liquidity depth only once researched.

Flags

  • Payout >50% below peakthis week's holders revenue is 41% of its best week in the last 90 days ($129k)
  • Data issue: chain mapping missingData issue (chain mapping missing): warning, scores are computed as usual

How the buyback really works

Not researched yet. Everything above comes from DefiLlama and market data only.

Holders revenue / revenue (30d)
$240k / $240k
last 30 closed days
To holders
Pays out 3.9% of its market cap a year
FDV / dilution
$84.2M / 1.1×
FDV ÷ market cap
Price 7d / 30d
−16.8% / −32.1%
Revenue growth 7d / 30d
−14% / −15%
versus the period before
Divergence
0.00
revenue growth minus price growth, 30d
DEX liquidity
—
trades mainly on exchanges
24h volume
$2.8M
all markets, CoinGecko
Unlocks 30d
—
DefiLlama's schedule does not cover the next 30 days while tokens are still locked
Revenue multiple
25.8×
market cap ÷ revenue per year
Fee multiple
25.8×
market cap ÷ fees per year
Distance to peak
41%
this week ÷ best week of 90 days
Data since
May 4
first day with holders revenue

Holders revenue and price

Holders revenue per day7-day averagePrice (right axis)

Multiple over time

today 51.6× (scored) · peer median 20.7×

Market cap at close ÷ (holders revenue of the previous 30 days × 365 ÷ 30), with holders revenue capped at revenue and × the type factor: the same effective multiple as the peer median. Values above 100× are drawn at the top. Bands as on the meter; dashed line = peer median today.

Signal history

No signals for this token yet.

Versus peers

Derivatives · 6 tokens · median multiple 20.7× · Hyperliquid is valued 225.3× higher. Per dollar that counts for holders, dYdX is 2.6× dearer.

Main-ranking peers only. Multiples count holders revenue capped at revenue, × the type factor (buyback 1 · buyback + burn 1 · burn 0.75 · mixed 0.75 · distribution 0.5 · unclear 0.5 · ve-distribution 0.25).

This token against its main-ranking peers: multiple, revenue multiple, buyback share, holders revenue, market cap and revenue growth
TokenDistributionMultipleRevenue multipleBuyback shareTo holders 30dMarket capRev. growth 30d
LighterBuyback14.6×11.8×81%$4.4M$775.1M+14%
edgeXBuyback16.0×7.0×44%$622k$120.8M−43%
HyperliquidleaderBuyback + burn20.2×20.2×100%$68.8M$16.94B−3%
ApeX ProtocolMixed21.2×15.9×100%$145k$28.2M−21%
GMXDistribution37.0×13.5×73%$354k$79.6M+15%
dYdXthis tokenDistribution51.6×25.8×100%$240k$75.2M−15%
Score build-up27 of 100

Total score = 35% valuation + 25% momentum + 20% divergence + 20% quality − penalties, clamped to 0–100. Every number here can be recomputed from the figures on this page.

27of 100#44▼5top 86%
Valuation 5.9Momentum 6.0Divergence 0.0Quality 15.0= 26.8
Valuation35%
17Valuation 16.7: HR half 18.9 (multiple 51.60×; 100 at ≤3×, 0 at ≥100×, log scale), revenue half 14.6 (revenue peer value 0.46×; 0 at ≤0.33×, 50 at 1×, 100 at ≥3×, log scale).Average of two halves. HR half: linear in log(multiple), 100 at ≤ 3×, 0 at ≥ 100×, 0 without effective HR. Revenue half: linear in log(revenue peer value), 0 at ≤ 0.33×, 50 at 1×, 100 at ≥ 3×; neutral 50 when the peer group falls back to the universe.
Momentum25%capped
24Momentum 23.9: m = 0.5·g7 −0.149 + 0.3·(ln(day jump 0.42) clamped ±1.5 = −0.860) + 0.2·g30 −0.162 = −0.365; 0 at ≤−0.7, 50 at 0, 100 at ≥1.1.m = 0.5·g7 + 0.3·ln(day jump, clamped ±1.5) + 0.2·g30; 0 at m ≤ −0.7, 50 at 0, 100 at ≥ 1.1. Neutral 50 when g7 or g30 is missing; a missing day jump counts as 0.
Divergence20%capped
0Divergence 0.0: d = g30 − p30 = 0.000; 0 at ≤0, 100 at ≥1.5.d = max(0, g30 − p30) when g30 > 0; 0 at d ≤ 0, 100 at d ≥ 1.5, linear.
Quality20%
75Quality 75.0: mean of days HR>0 100% → 100.0 (0 at ≤30%, 100 at ≥90%), largest day 8% of HR30 → 100.0 (0 at ≥60%, 100 at ≤15%), distance to peak 0.41 → 24.9 (0 at ≤0.25, 100 at ≥0.9).Average of: share of days with HR > 0 (0 at ≤ 30%, 100 at ≥ 90%), 1 − largest day ÷ HR30 (0 at ≥ 60%, 100 at ≤ 15%) and distance to peak (0 at ≤ 0.25, 100 at ≥ 0.9).

HR7 is below 50% of its 90-day peak: momentum and divergence are capped at 50. This is not a penalty; the distance already counts in quality.

Penaltiesnone

No penalty applies — 10 rules checked, 3 wait for research data

Where the numbers come from
Revenue source
2 active children
DefiLlama adapter per child
Price and market cap
defillama / defillama
latest fetch
Scored on
November 11, 2026
as-of date of the last compute run
On-chain verified
not yet
not checked yet
Protocols behind this token2 at DefiLlama

Per protocol: DefiLlama's methodology text, the distribution type we read from it and the sentence that decided it. The token takes the type of the protocol that returns the most to holders.

  • dYdX V4
    Derivatives · dYdX
    type distribution · source label
    “Staking Rewards: 100% of trading fees distributed to DYDX token stakers via the staking rewards mechanism”

    All trading fees are distributed to DYDX token stakers as staking rewards

    Staking Rewards
    100% of trading fees distributed to DYDX token stakers via the staking rewards mechanism
    adapter on GitHub ↗
  • dYdX V3
    Derivatives · Ethereum
    type unclear · source text
    “Fees going to governance token holders”

    Fees going to governance token holders

    adapter on GitHub ↗