DyDx Account Management

The open source DyDx Client libraries do not provide adequate support for the security infrastructure of institutional clients. For example, it forces you to use a plain-text ETH signing key with a deterministic signing algorithm. This is woefully inadequate for any risk-conscious user.

This library provides a simple way to manage your DyDx account with institutional-grade ETH signatures from AWS KMS.

It also provides some nice tooling for getting in and out of compatible assets for collateral deposits.

Setup

Before you can do anything, you need:

1. ETH Wallet -- we recommend you use AWS KMS for production trading, for testing you can just use a plain text key if you wish
2. Stark Private Key -- you need to generate some random bytes for this. For example, run: openssl rand --hex 20

Usage

You need to edit the values in credentials.py to use this library.

If you have questions, reach out to [email protected].

To create and fund a new DyDx account, you must do the following:

1. Create User (python manage.py create-user --network-id 1)
2. Register User (python manage.py register-user --network-id 1)
3. Make sure you have some USDC (python manage.py eth-to-usdc --amount 0.01 --network-id 1)
4. Approve the DyDx exchange contract to take your USDC (python manage.py approve-dydx-exchange --amount 25 --network-id 1)
5. Deposit USDC to the exchange contract (python manage.py deposit-dydx --amount 25 --network-id 1)

To confirm the transfer was successful after the fact, you can run python manage.py get-transfers --network-id 1