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This week (subject to audit completion) there’s an upgrade being deployed to the Synthetix system that improves the user experience trading binary options on Synthetix.Exchange. During the upgrade there will be a short period ( <2 hours) of the binary options interface being inaccessible, but there is not expected to be any further impact to users of the protocol. Binary options 1.1 (SIP-71)SIP-71 introduces a number of improvements to the new binary options trading feature on Synthetix.Excha… … More

Yesterday (July 1) we deployed an upgrade to the Synthetix system that resolved an issue that was caused by a change made in the Acrux release earlier this week. SIP-48 had unexpectedly increased the gas cost significantly for SNX transfers from non-staking wallets. We decided to push a release to amend this: Reduce gas of SNX transfers for non-stakers (SIP-66)This release is called ‘Aldebaran,’ which like all releases is named after a star (in order of visual magnitude). If you’ve got any comme… … More

Next Tuesday (June 30, beginning around 12am midnight UTC), we’re deploying an upgrade with several protocol improvements. The system will be down for a few hours while the upgrade is deployed. During this time, users may be unable to interact with the system, including using Mintr or Synthetix.Exchange, and transferring SNX or Synths.Here’s what is included in this release:Binary options (SIP-53): This update adds the much-awaited binary options trading feature to Synthetix.Exchange. It’s a typ… … More

This Friday (June 5, 12am midnight UTC), we’re deploying an upgrade with multiple protocol improvements. The system will be down for several hours while the upgrade is deployed. During this time, users will be unable to interact with the system, including using Mintr or Synthetix.Exchange, and transferring SNX or Synths.Here’s what is included in this release:SNX liquidation mechanism (SIP-15) — This update creates a liquidation mechanism for under-collateralised staked SNX to be redeemable for … … More

On our most recent governance call we discussed a range of items that were in scope, we are now less than a week away from the release of Altair which is scheduled for next Thursday (~12am, June 4, UTC). Most of the scope has been submitted for audit but there are still a few items not yet audited, so we have decided to split the scope into two releases a few weeks apart. The first is Altair and it will be followed by Acrux a few weeks later (subject to audits). In addition to these releases we … … More