Kain Warwick

Kain is the founder of Synthetix.

Debt Pool Synthesis

Before jumping in a quick reminder on some of the naming conventions used in this post. V2x refers to the remaining scope to be delivered in the current Synthetix protocol V3 refers to the redesigned contract architecture to be deployed next year V3GM refers to the new generalised governance module

V2x Revisited

> There's a feeling I get when I look to the west Led Zeppelin A few weeks ago we wrapped up the first Core Contributor offsite since December 2019, with almost all Core Contributors from the Western Hemisphere attending. While it would have been great to get all

Optimism Launch Announcement

After many months of hard work and collaboration between Chainlink, Optimism and Synthetix we are extremely excited to announce exchanges on OΞ will be enabled the week of July 26th, with a final deployment date pending Spartan Council approval. As specified in SIP-121 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-121] the

DAO First Capital Formation

One of the most fun and terrifying aspects of DeFi is the constant innovation, there are new and crazy projects forming constantly. Low barriers to entry mean experimentation has never been easier, enabling global permissionless innovation in finance. Over the last few years, I’ve been in the privileged position

An Old Dictator Appears

Earlier this year the Synthetix community implemented a critical change on the path to decentralised governance SIP-111 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-111], ceding protocol change decisions to the Spartan Council. To prepare for this transition the Council needed to have the space to establish itself and gain community support

A little dash of hÖpΞm

Disclaimer As always I will preface this post with a disclaimer, this post is purely my opinion, I believe the path laid out here is sound, I arrived at it through numerous conversations with members of the Synthetix community. However, I have no mechanism to enforce this path other than

Frontrunning Synthetix: a history

As we embark on two new approaches to limit frontrunning I thought it would be valuable to document the history of frontrunning Synthetix. Frontrunning is a thread that has managed to weave its way through our entire journey. Hopefully, understanding how this long standing challenge has been approached by the

The Optimistic Ethereum Transition

With the launch of Optimistic Ethereum (OΞ) mainnet in a few days we are entering a new era for the project, OΞ presents an opportunity to scale the protocol but it also presents a number of challenges. One of the most critical is how to gracefully transition from L1 to

Synthetix 2021

Synthetix 2021, it feels more like the title for a 80’s sci-fi movie than a roadmap post, I guess it kind of is. Imagine a future where everyone in the world is connected to one another by handheld devices that allow them to hold, trade and transfer every imaginable

Synthetix 2020 - A decade in review

It’s hard to believe it’s only been 365 days since Jan 1st 2020. So much has happened not just within Synthetix but across all of DeFi. It will be hard to cover it all in a single post, but I’ll try to pick out the highlights. I&

Manually interacting with multi-collateral loans

The Shaula [https://blog.synthetix.io/the-shaula-release/] release deployed two major protocol changes, SIP-97 and SIP-103. These two SIPs enable new forms of borrowing as well as a new mechanism to short Synths. This new shorting mechanism includes several improvements and is intended to replace the existing iSynths. First let’

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Virtual Synths and where to find them

A guide to Synthetix's recent launch of Virtual Synths

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The Spartan Council

A proposal for a new Spartan Council to contribute to Synthetix governance

OVM

Why Optimism?

Synthetix founder Kain Warwick on Optimistic Ethereum

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The shifting sands of DeFi

Founder Kain's views on Synthetix and DeFi right now

The Synthetix Volume Program

The new program incentivising Synth trading volume across DeFi

Synthetic Futures Primer

Introduction This post will cover a number of areas relating to the upcoming launch of synthetic futures. It will provide a high level overview of the current proposed design of futures detailed in SIP-80 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-80]. It will also provide background on the difference between the

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State of Synthetix H2 2020

Synthetix founder Kain Warwick on the current state of Synthetix

Synthetix Foundation Decommissioned

The transition from the Synthetix Foundation to 3 distinct DAO's

iETH Migration and iBTC Launch

Most stakers in the iETH incentive should be aware that if ETH hits $315.28 iETH will reach its lower limit and it will be frozen, this would require everyone in the staking contract to unstake so that the normal purge process can be performed and iETH reset. The issue

release

A³: Altair, Acrux and Aldebaran

An overview of our next three system releases

Escrow

Core Contributor Escrow Announcement

The core contributors to Synthetix will be escrowing their SNX.

binary options

Binary Options Primer

An introduction to binary options on Synthetix

New Curve Pool Launch

The Curve team has deployed a new Curve pool after the vulnerability discovered earlier this week in the previous pool. The new Curve pool is now ready for stablecoin liquidity providers to add liquidity. As promised, we have added a section to our docs site here [https://docs.synthetix.io/

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New Frontend Release Process

Information about our new process for frontend updates