Eddie Zhang

Eddie Zhang is a technology and product executive with a background spanning consumer technology, social products, decentralized finance, and investment banking. He is currently CEO of dYdX and Arcus, having previously served as President of dYdX and founded Pocket Protector and Fam. ^{[1] [2]}

Education

Zhang attended Dartmouth College, where he earned a BA in Economics and Computer Science. ^[3]

Career

Zhang began his career in Global Markets at Citi and later worked in Corporate Development at The Walt Disney Company and Technology M&A Advisory at The Blackstone Group. He then joined Facebook as a Product Manager, where he worked on Messenger Business and Platform, including the Messenger Bot Platform, and was the first product manager to lead mobile for News Feed. In 2017, Zhang co-founded Fam, a group video-calling application focused on helping users make new friends, which became part of Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch and was later acquired by Eventbrite in 2023. He subsequently joined Eventbrite as Senior Director of Product Management, focusing on growth and social products. In 2024, Zhang co-founded Pocket Protector, a social trading product that enabled users to trade through group chats on Telegram. He served as CEO until its acquisition by dYdX in 2025, after which he became President of dYdX and later CEO of the company. In July 2026, he also became CEO of Arcus, a decentralized exchange developed by dYdX Labs in partnership with Robinhood Crypto. ^[4]

Interviews

Decentralized Trading

In an October 2025 interview on the Talking Tokens podcast, Zhang discussed the importance of building simple and accessible crypto trading experiences, describing dYdX’s consumer-focused approach and efforts to make decentralized trading easier to understand and use. He discussed the growth of social trading and the emergence of trust-based relationships between traders, highlighting dYdX’s work on features such as Telegram bots and unified accounts to connect users and communities. Zhang also outlined plans to improve trading infrastructure through faster order execution and broader asset listings, including real-world assets, while emphasizing user experience and network effects as important factors in growing and maintaining a competitive platform. He addressed challenges including liquidity and volatility, discussed tools such as MegaVault for supporting liquidity, and argued that teams should prioritize focused, high-quality product releases rather than a broad range of weaker features. Looking ahead, Zhang highlighted sustained user growth, Telegram spot trading, and the potential for stablecoins and new consumer-oriented experiments to drive another phase of crypto adoption. ^[6]