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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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Why do I need sUSD?

Kwenta quotes its asset prices against sUSD. Traders that want to purchase synthetic assets, open a Futures position, or leverage any of the financial tools provided by Kwenta will need to do so in sUSD.

Supporting sUSD helps Kwenta stay true to its decentralized ethos. sUSD is a fully decentralized stablecoin minted by , a decentralized liquidity protocol. sUSD, because of its decentralized issuance, cannot be muted, blocked, or stopped.

Getting sUSD on Optimistic Ethereum

In order to be able to get (swap) sUSD on Optimism you must have already bridged eligible ERC-20 tokens via a bridge. A tutorial how to use bridges .

First, head over to .

Connect your web3 wallet to Uniswap and make sure the Optimistic Ethereum network in your wallet is selected.

Swap from any supported ERC-20 token to sUSD

Remember to always keep some ETH in your wallet to pay for transaction fees

You now have sUSD to trade on

  1. Getting Started

How to get sUSD

Explains why Kwenta uses and why traders need sUSD to utilize Kwenta

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