Starting at present, Synthetix Perps on Arbitrum have been positioned into close-only mode. This determination follows the sharp pivot in Synthetix’s product technique to vertically combine relatively than present solely as a platform. Whereas this determination was not taken frivolously, it’s a crucial step to make sure we are able to ship probably the most liquid, dependable, and user-friendly onchain buying and selling, leverage, and yield platform as attainable. As every chain’s deployment requires distinctive liquidity, upkeep, and help assets, consolidating on one community permits us to focus these assets on strengthening our core choices. That is additionally an vital step as Synthetix progresses in the direction of Snaxchain, Synthetix’s personal Superchain deployment.
In direction of a Cohesive Synthetix
Following the Synthetix Reboot, a restructuring of the DAO, Synthetix has made a number of daring strikes to reposition the protocol together with the acquisition of ecosystem tasks Kwenta and TLX, consolidating these tasks right into a single Synthetix native buying and selling app. By sunsetting Synthetix on Arbitrum, the DAO continues to carve a transparent and targeted path towards a buying and selling platform that represents the very best Synthetix can supply.
The choice to wind down Arbitrum Perps is a part of a broader technique to develop alongside Base, the biggest and fastest-growing Ethereum rollup by TVL. Synthetix’s USDC pool on Base has already develop into the biggest non-SNX liquidity pool within the protocol. With the launch of Synthetix V3’s most cutting-edge options, together with gasless 1-click-trading, multicollateral margin, and the upcoming launch of Leveraged Tokens, Base is the perfect community to proceed growth on a world-class derivatives buying and selling suite.
Steps for Merchants
As of at present, all Perps markets on Arbitrum have been set to close-only mode by decreasing the open curiosity caps to 0. No rapid motion is required. Right here’s what this implies:
Present Positions: Open positions will stay unaffected and might be decreased or closed at any time.New Positions: Merchants will now not have the ability to open new positions or improve present positions.Potential Affect: As a result of potential volatility in market skew, merchants may even see larger-than-usual modifications in premiums, reductions, or funding charges. We encourage merchants to watch their positions carefully.
Whereas no positions will likely be force-closed at the moment, we encourage merchants emigrate their buying and selling to the Base community to get pleasure from an uninterrupted, consistently bettering buying and selling expertise. All markets from Arbitrum can be found on Base, and merchants can bridge funds proper from our swap interface. Powered by Socket, our swap interface helps bridging from practically any EVM chain and swapping immediately into any supported margin collateral for USDC-denominated v3 on Base.
USDx on Arbitrum
Arbitrum’s USDx is the spine of perps buying and selling on Arbitrum, and can should be sundown alongside the Arbitrum perps product. Whereas USDx has remained overcollateralized and backed by numerous asset swimming pools, the DAO might want to act to help the liquidity and stability crucial for the transition.
The Synthetix Treasury has bought USDx from the open market and funded a wrapper, which permits USDx to be swapped with USDe with no slippage. Merchants and LPs can exit their USDx place or buy to repay their debt through the wrapper or the open market.
The LP Expertise
There aren’t any required actions for liquidity suppliers, nonetheless, Arbitrum swimming pools will stop producing charges as soon as all Perps positions are closed. To help LPs throughout this transition, and to organize for the upcoming Base Leveraged Tokens launch, Synthetix will supply three further weeks of LP incentives on Base for many who want to migrate their LP positions to the Base community.
LPs will even quickly additionally benefit from the possibility of depositing and incomes yield on WETH, wstETH, cbETH, and cbBTC on Base to match Arbitrum’s LP choices the place attainable.
