Right now, April fifth, the Caph launch will start. There shall be no downtime through the launch. The discharge consists of two SIPs geared toward enhancing the mixing expertise for Synthetix Perps frontends and buying and selling expertise for finish customers and incorporating slippage guards on liquidation transactions.
- SIP-2004: Higher DelayedOrder Integration/Buying and selling Expertise.
This SIP addresses a number of suggestions factors and recommendations from integrators, making it simpler for future integration and utilization. The proposed adjustments embrace introducing new capabilities for closing delayed orders, permitting non-liquidatable positions to be lowered/closed, eradicating the dedication price required at order submission, making liquidationBufferRatio market-specific, and updating the value safety design.
- SIP-2005: Incorporating slippage guards on liquidation transactions.
This SIP proposes a brand new perps liquidation mechanism that consists of flagging and liquidation (spontaneous and compelled). Flagging is triggered when an account is eligible for liquidation, and liquidation happens primarily based on particular circumstances. This mechanism goals to stop opportunistic ordering of transactions surrounding liquidations.
- Flagging: An account is eligible for flagging as per the _canLiquidate perform. Keepers can set off a flag, ensuing within the place being staged for liquidation. At this level, the account can’t work together with its place till liquidation is finalized, and any pending trade order is eliminated.
- Spontaneous Liquidation: Flagged accounts might be spontaneously liquidated if the value impression of the liquidation is beneath a maxLiquidationDelta and the prevailing premium or low cost of the market is beneath maxPD. Upon profitable liquidation, the keeper triggering the transaction receives a configurable sUSD reward, the place is closed, and the person can work together with the market by depositing sUSD and opening a brand new place.
- Compelled Liquidation: The protocol can endorse sure addresses, permitting them to pressure a liquidation on flagged accounts, bypassing each the maxLiquidationDelta and maxPD checks. Endorsed keepers would incorporate off-chain logic to stop execution of liquidations for market skew outliers. This permits for MEV-resistant liquidations whereas purely on-chain logic is developed additional. You will need to point out that the majority liquidated accounts are anticipated to be liquidated spontaneously, however for expedient rollout and preliminary security precaution, liquidator endorsement can be used.
Please learn extra in regards to the SIP 2005 liquidation mechanism design right here.
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