Today, Jan 30th, the Mintaka release will begin. There will be no downtime for this release. Here's what's included: * SIP-297: Perps V2 - Fixes - Bug fixes for Perps V2 calculations, parameters, etc. During the alpha release of Synthetix Perps V2, bugs were discovered that caused

Synthetix is excited to announce that Synthetix Perps V2 is now live – the future of on-chain perps is here! With its advanced improvements, Perps V2 will revolutionize the on-chain trading experience by significantly reducing fees, improving scalability, capital efficiency, and, most importantly, trader satisfaction. Introducing the first-of-its-kind off-chain oracle system,

The next Synthetix community governance call is scheduled for December 22nd at 9PM UTC (12/22 afternoon/evening for western hemisphere; 12/23 morning for eastern hemisphere). Interested in learning more about Synthetix and its plans for the future? Make sure to RSVP to the call to hear from SNX

Nominations for the next epoch's Synthetix Councils (Spartan, Grants, Treasury, and Ambassador Council) will open later this week, Dec 17th! The epoch lasts 4 months, from Jan 1st (extended from 3 months after SIP 287). Voting then starts on Dec 21st and ends on Dec 31st. All elected

Today, Nov 30th, the Alphecca release will begin. There will be no downtime for this release. Here's what's included: * SIP-299: Minor upgrades to V2X to support V3 Migration - Grant a few special permissions to the LegacyMarketcontract, the facilitator of the migration of collateral and debt

Today, Nov 3rd, the Suhail release will begin. Here's what's included in this release: * SIP 267: Direct Integration - Implement a direct integration contract that allows approved integrators to tap into exchange functionalities with customized parameters The direct integration contract allows the Synthetix protocol to create

Today, Oct 20th, the Aspidiske release will begin. Here's what's included in this release: * SIP-252: Liquidation of SNX Escrow: Allows SNX entries to be liquidated in case of force liquidation Motivation for Change In the initial release of the new liquidation mechanism escrow entries couldn'

The next Synthetix community governance call is scheduled for Tuesday Sep 27th at 8pm UTC (9/27 afternoon/evening for western hemisphere; 9/28 morning for eastern hemisphere), and we’d love for you to join us! We'll be holding this event on our Discord, RSVP now at

Synthetix is excited to add Optimism Perpetual markets to join its growing list of supported assets available for leverage trading through Synthetix Perp Futures on Kwenta. New Markets - sOP The Optimism Perpetual market will join the growing list of supported cryptocurrencies available for leverage trading through Synthetix Perpetual Futures.

💡Updated 9/26/22 to reflect the removal of the nomination period with the passage of SIP 278. Nominations are now possible during the voting period. Nominations for the next epoch's Synthetix Councils (Spartan, Grants, Treasury, and Ambassador Council) will open later, Sep 10th at 0:00 UTC!

XMR Perpetual market will join the growing list of supported cryptocurrencies available for leverage trading through Synthetix Perpetual Futures.

Synthetix is excited to launch three markets to join its growing list of supported assets available for leverage trading through Synthetix Perp Futures on Kwenta. New Markets - BNB, DOGE, DEBT RATIO BNB and DOGE Perpetual markets will join the growing list of supported cryptocurrencies available for leverage trading through

In preparation for the Ethereum merge event, expected to take place on 15-September, SIP 271 was approved which suspends all Synthetix contracts on both Ethereum and Optimism, when Total Terminal Difficulty (TTD) crosses 58740000000000000000000, around 3 hours prior to the expected merge block and resume activities after ensuring that Chainlink

Later today (December 3, ~08:00 UTC), the Atria release will begin. During this release, minting, burning, and claiming will be down on L2 only for 2-3 hours. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-192 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-192/]: Fee Pool Accounting Error Fix and

Ever since our transition to Optimistic Ethereum (OΞ) kicked off earlier this year, we have been working towards our goal of launching the most liquid, fully on-chain perpetual futures platform in DeFi. Much progress has been made and numerous lessons learned, culminating in a Kwenta testnet competition [https://blog.kwenta.

Later today (November 23, ~1800:00 UTC), the Menkalinan release is expected to take place. During this period, there will be no downtime on L1 and up to 30 minutes of downtime on L2. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-167 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-167/

Later today (November 16, ~23:59 UTC), the Alkaid release will implement some upgrades on L1 only. During this release there will be no downtime. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-120 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-120/]: Atomic Exchange Function: This SIP creates a new exchange

The newly formed Synthetix Treasury Council will assist LYRA with fee rebates in order to make pricing competitive, and to signal support to ecosystem partners that bring direct benefit to SNX stakers. A solution to the problem Due to the current 40bps fee that is charged by Synthetix on Optimism,

Later today, the Avior release will implement a new upgrade on L2 only. During this release there will be no downtime on L1, but up to 3 hours of downtime L2 during which time deposits will be disabled. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-182 [https://sips.

Later today (October 19, ~21:00 UTC) the Kaus release will begin, implementing a minor upgrade on both L1 and L2. During this release there will be no downtime on L1 or L2. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-187 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-187/] -

Optimism Gateway - For moving the vast majority of your tokens, you can do so directly with the official Optimism gateway [https://gateway.optimism.io/welcome ] at https://gateway.optimism.io/welcome. To do this, you will need to connect your wallet, select the token you’d like to migrate,

The Sargas release has been pushed live to bring some new features to Synthetix on the Optimistic Ethereum L2. Here's what’s included in this release: * SIP-135 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-135/] - L2 Shorting: This SIP brings shorting capabilities (that have been available on L1) to

The next Synthetix community governance call is scheduled for September 30th at 9pm UTC (9/30 afternoon/evening for western hemisphere; 10/1 morning for eastern hemisphere), and we’d love for you to join us! The current agenda for this month’s meeting (subject to change) is as follows:

In the next 24 hours (September 16, ~10:00 UTC), a number of synths will be deprecated as communicated previously [https://blog.synthetix.io/deprecating-low-volume-l1-synths/]. With SIP-174 [https://sips.synthetix.io/sips/sip-174/] now implemented, synth deprecations will be a much simpler and smoother process than in the past (see