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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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  1. Using Kwenta
  2. Perennial Isolated Margin

Perennial Intro

Perennial in its most basic form is infrastructure for derivative markets.

A market in Perennial is a two-sided market (makers & taker) that trades synthetic exposure derived from a price oracle, over a given payoff function. Each market is independent & has isolated risk.

A Market in Perennial is defined by things like:

  • Oracle

  • Payoff function

  • Fee structure

  • Funding Rate

  • Interest Rate

  • Leverage & Liquidation

Implications of this worth calling out:

  1. Payoffs are fully synthetic — There can be a Perennial market for any price feed (or any programmable deviation of that price feed). A market could theoretically be created for crypto tokens, currencies, commodities, or any other non-manipulable price feed.

  2. Each price feed may have multiple markets — There may be a Long-ETH market with the payoff function 1*ETH, and a Short-ETH market with the payoff (-1)*ETH)

  3. Each payoff function may have multiple markets — There may multiple Short-ETH markets (payoff: (-1)*ETH), each with its own utilization curve, fees structure, parameters, etc.

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