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  • 🥂Welcome to Kwenta
  • Getting Started
    • How to start using Kwenta
    • Introduction
    • Getting started on Optimism
    • How to get sUSD
    • Access Kwenta
      • Installing the IPFS Companion to Access Kwenta
      • Backup RPCs
      • Withdrawing from v2 Isolated Margin using Optimistic Etherscan
  • Using Kwenta
    • Futures on Kwenta
    • Jargon
    • Synthetix Isolated Margin
      • Funding
        • Technical Details
      • Delayed Orders
      • Maker/Takers on Kwenta
      • Leverage
      • Liquidations
      • Initial/Maintenance Margin
      • One-Click Trading
        • Onboarding to 1CT
        • FAQ
      • Smart Margin
        • Dashboard Overview
        • Futures UI Overview
        • Get Started with Smart Margin
          • Withdrawing sUSD & ETH
          • Opening/Closing Positions
          • Conditional Orders
            • Limit Orders
            • Stop-Loss Orders
          • FAQ
      • Delegated Trading
        • Getting started
        • Managing Delegates
        • Accessing Accounts Delegate to You
      • Fees
      • Referral Program
        • The Traders Tab
        • The Affiliates Tab
        • Incentive Tiers and Rewards
      • FAQ
    • Perennial Isolated Margin
      • Perennial Intro
        • Market Design
        • Oracles
        • Payoff & Positions
        • Trading Fees and Price Impact
        • Funding Rate
        • Interest Rate
        • Leverage & Liquidations
        • Collateral
        • CodeBase
      • Bridging to Arbitrum
      • Trading on Perennial
        • Dashboard Overview
        • Futures UI Overview
        • Opening/Closing Positions
        • Advanced Orders
          • Limit Orders
          • Stop-Loss Orders
      • Gasless Trading
        • Onboarding to 1-Click-Trading
        • FAQ
  • Kwenta Token
    • Staking KWENTA
      • How to stake KWENTA
      • Escrow and Vesting
      • Transferring Escrow Entries
    • Claiming Rewards
    • Trading Rewards
  • DAO
    • Kwenta Token
    • Governance
    • MarketingDAO
    • devDAO
      • Contributing to the Kwenta Frontend
        • Troubleshooting
        • Testing
  • Developers
    • Deployed Contracts
      • V2 Futures Market Proxy Contracts
    • Verify Kwenta
    • Kwenta SDK
  • Resources
    • Audits
    • Development progress Epoch 1 2024
    • GitHub
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  • Benefits of using Kwenta
  • To start trading, visit Kwenta

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  1. Getting Started

How to start using Kwenta

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Things you can do on Kwenta:

  • Buy or sell a growing number of synthetic assets

  • Trade with up to 25x leverage

  • Stake KWENTA to receive inflationary rewards (coming soon)

Benefits of using Kwenta

  • Trade with low gas fees and near-instant transactions on Optimism

  • Trading is 100% on-chain

  • Chainlink oracle protected price data

You will need:

  • Web3 wallet (See for help)

  • ETH for gas and to trade on the

  • Start trading!

Kwenta works different from traditional exchanges as it:

  1. Price feeds come from decentralized Chainlink oracles

  2. There is no order book

Instead, trades executed on Kwenta leverage the Synthetix debt pool (a huge pool of liquidity). This ensures that traders have the liquidity they need at any price point to execute trades. This model requires a liquid and immutable stable coin such as .

To start trading, visit Kwenta

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