We’re introducing a new liquidity mining initiative as part of OP Summer: Pool Party! Cool off in any of our liquidity pools and earn enhanced yields as a maker.Learn more about providing liquidity on Perp. New to LP’ing? Check out our Easy LP feature to make it a breeze!Didn’t receive invites to any pool parties this summer? No worries, as we have kicked off our very own! As a new initiative for liquidity providers (LPs), Pool Party offers incentives in both OP and PERP tokens for facilitati...

We’re introducing a new liquidity mining initiative as part of OP Summer: Pool Party! Cool off in any of our liquidity pools and earn enhanced yields as a maker.Learn more about providing liquidity on Perp. New to LP’ing? Check out our Easy LP feature to make it a breeze!Didn’t receive invites to any pool parties this summer? No worries, as we have kicked off our very own! As a new initiative for liquidity providers (LPs), Pool Party offers incentives in both OP and PERP tokens for facilitati...

You may have heard that we’re upgrading the PERP tokenomics! With the imminent move to a veToken model, we want to further incentivize long-term community growth and improve how the value generated by the protocol is distributed to users. But what exactly is veTokenomics? Read on to find out more! Most tokenomic models in DeFi run into the following problem: while bootstrapping usage of the protocol over the short term, the incentives eventually run dry and interest fizzles out. A small handf...

You may have heard that we’re upgrading the PERP tokenomics! With the imminent move to a veToken model, we want to further incentivize long-term community growth and improve how the value generated by the protocol is distributed to users. But what exactly is veTokenomics? Read on to find out more! Most tokenomic models in DeFi run into the following problem: while bootstrapping usage of the protocol over the short term, the incentives eventually run dry and interest fizzles out. A small handf...

Providing liquidity to decentralized exchanges to facilitate cryptocurrency swaps is one of the most popular ways of earning yield in DeFi, giving you the chance to make money no matter what the market conditions are. With the introduction of makers in Perpetual Protocol v2, you can also provide liquidity with leverage, similar to how you can open long or short leveraged positions as a taker. In this guide, we’ll provide a walkthrough of how to provide liquidity with leverage on Perpetual Pro...

Providing liquidity to decentralized exchanges to facilitate cryptocurrency swaps is one of the most popular ways of earning yield in DeFi, giving you the chance to make money no matter what the market conditions are. With the introduction of makers in Perpetual Protocol v2, you can also provide liquidity with leverage, similar to how you can open long or short leveraged positions as a taker. In this guide, we’ll provide a walkthrough of how to provide liquidity with leverage on Perpetual Pro...

This is the second article in our two-part series on how to run perp-maker, a market-making template for Perpetual Protocol v2. In part one, we covered the basics of Perpetual Protocol, the risks and rewards of running the bot, and how to run it locally. It’s recommended to go through part one before reading part two. https://mirror.xyz/0x071B76df4a05Fb162569930aB82d8d265Bb8A497/LWB40sjbmk4R34eq2ZD88vm466wAZ7iiskalKWGVPXc In the following, we’ll guide you through how to run the bot on AWS Lam...

This is the second article in our two-part series on how to run perp-maker, a market-making template for Perpetual Protocol v2. In part one, we covered the basics of Perpetual Protocol, the risks and rewards of running the bot, and how to run it locally. It’s recommended to go through part one before reading part two. https://mirror.xyz/0x071B76df4a05Fb162569930aB82d8d265Bb8A497/LWB40sjbmk4R34eq2ZD88vm466wAZ7iiskalKWGVPXc In the following, we’ll guide you through how to run the bot on AWS Lam...

The Easy LP simple mode provides an intuitive way to provide liquidity and express your market views on Perp v2, making earning yield as a maker a breeze.What is Easy LP?🧑‍🏫If you’ve ever provided liquidity on Uniswap v3, then becoming a maker on Perp v2 is similar. You have to set a price range to concentrate your liquidity or you can opt to select to provide liquidity along the entire price curve. The yields are higher for liquidity providers (or LPs in the following) with more concentrat...

The Easy LP simple mode provides an intuitive way to provide liquidity and express your market views on Perp v2, making earning yield as a maker a breeze.What is Easy LP?🧑‍🏫If you’ve ever provided liquidity on Uniswap v3, then becoming a maker on Perp v2 is similar. You have to set a price range to concentrate your liquidity or you can opt to select to provide liquidity along the entire price curve. The yields are higher for liquidity providers (or LPs in the following) with more concentrat...

The most anticipated update to Perpetual Protocol has arrived: advanced order types! With the introduction of limit and stop loss orders, traders can now enjoy more advanced strategies and improved risk management.What are Limit Orders?Limit orders differ from market orders, as you can specify the price level (known as the limit price) at which you want to buy or sell an asset. The order will then be executed at a price equal to or better than the limit price. The chart below shows how trader...

The most anticipated update to Perpetual Protocol has arrived: advanced order types! With the introduction of limit and stop loss orders, traders can now enjoy more advanced strategies and improved risk management.What are Limit Orders?Limit orders differ from market orders, as you can specify the price level (known as the limit price) at which you want to buy or sell an asset. The order will then be executed at a price equal to or better than the limit price. The chart below shows how trader...

Perp-curie-arbitrageur is an open-sourced template that automatically executes your arbitrage strategy between Perpetual Protocol v2 “Curie” and FTX. In this blog post, we’ll cover what Perpetual Protocol v2 is, the risks and rewards of running this bot, how you can run it on your computer and on AWS, and further modification suggestions.Perpetual Protocol 101Perpetual Protocol, or Perp v2 “Curie” specifically, is a decentralized derivative exchange (DEX) on Optimism where traders can use USD...

Perp-curie-arbitrageur is an open-sourced template that automatically executes your arbitrage strategy between Perpetual Protocol v2 “Curie” and FTX. In this blog post, we’ll cover what Perpetual Protocol v2 is, the risks and rewards of running this bot, how you can run it on your computer and on AWS, and further modification suggestions.Perpetual Protocol 101Perpetual Protocol, or Perp v2 “Curie” specifically, is a decentralized derivative exchange (DEX) on Optimism where traders can use USD...

The Grants Committee accepted one grant, received 4 new proposals and 2 new request for proposals applicants during June.Grants Accepted ✅GalleonGalleon recently launched a basis trading product for Ethereum (Basis Yield ETH Index) using Perp v2 and TokenSets, and they are building the same product across other offerings on Perp v2.Grants Under Consideration 🔎Uno FarmUno Farm is a platform that makes yield farming profitable and easy through auto-compounding and aggregating the best yield op...

The Grants Committee accepted one grant, received 4 new proposals and 2 new request for proposals applicants during June.Grants Accepted ✅GalleonGalleon recently launched a basis trading product for Ethereum (Basis Yield ETH Index) using Perp v2 and TokenSets, and they are building the same product across other offerings on Perp v2.Grants Under Consideration 🔎Uno FarmUno Farm is a platform that makes yield farming profitable and easy through auto-compounding and aggregating the best yield op...

What is Isolated Margin?By default, your account on Perp v2 is cross-margin, which means that all of the leveraged positions are covered by the same pool of funds. This method shares margin between open positions so that when needed, a certain position will draw more margin from the total account balance to avoid liquidation. Cross margin can be convenient since you do not have to add or remove margin for each position. However, one position can affect your other positions since they will all...

What is Isolated Margin?By default, your account on Perp v2 is cross-margin, which means that all of the leveraged positions are covered by the same pool of funds. This method shares margin between open positions so that when needed, a certain position will draw more margin from the total account balance to avoid liquidation. Cross margin can be convenient since you do not have to add or remove margin for each position. However, one position can affect your other positions since they will all...

Perp-maker is an open-source market-making template for Perpetual Protocol v2, the most popular dApp on Optimism (a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum). Anyone can use or modify the template to facilitate trades on the protocol and earn fees. In this tutorial, we’ll go over what Perpetual Protocol is, the risks and rewards associated with running the bot, and how to run it locally. Due to the length of this article, we’ll cover how to run the bot on AWS and further modification suggestions...

Perp-maker is an open-source market-making template for Perpetual Protocol v2, the most popular dApp on Optimism (a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum). Anyone can use or modify the template to facilitate trades on the protocol and earn fees. In this tutorial, we’ll go over what Perpetual Protocol is, the risks and rewards associated with running the bot, and how to run it locally. Due to the length of this article, we’ll cover how to run the bot on AWS and further modification suggestions...