SNX is an important collateral asset within the DeFi ecosystem, it currently secures nearly $150 million USD worth of synthetic assets on Ethereum. Greater liquidity for SNX makes it easier for stakers to manage their debt obligations and for the entire system to stay sufficiently collateralized, both of which in turn make DeFi’s largest pool of synthetic asset liquidity more efficient.
I disagree with this initiative, because I don’t think that SNX brings additional value to the exchange as a bridge asset.
Eg. increased ETH/USDC depth improves the trading experience for many additional assets beyond USDC and ETH by virtue of users being able to trade USDC <> other assets with more liquidity. USDC is also directly paired with many assets on UniV2, so it may improve generalized liquidity for ETH as well. I’d argue the same applies for DAI, USDT, and WBTC, but isn’t applicable to SNX. The only people who benefit directly from incentivizing SNX liquidity depth are SNX holders.
I’d be much more interested in an sUSD/ETH pool for incentives, as this could serve as bridge liquidity between Uniswap and the Synthetix Exchange.
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I don’t think any of the outlined dontpoints show why uni should invest UNI here. Afaik, there are no liquidations in SNX yet so the only order flow coming to uni for SNX would strictly be speculatory. If SNX had liquidations they needed to process, it would be much more interesting imo