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  1. Using Kwenta
  2. Perennial Isolated Margin

Perennial Intro

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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:

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.

Oracle
Payoff function
Fee structure
Funding Rate
Interest Rate
Leverage & Liquidation