Synthetix officially launches sUSD 420 Pool to tackle ongoing stablecoin issues

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Why Synthetix’s New sUSD 420 Pool Might Just Save Your Wallet (or Not!) 💸

Ah, Synthetix, the brave knight in the ever-chaotic realm of cryptocurrency! They’ve just unveiled a shiny new liquidity initiative, the “sUSD 420 Pool,” which sounds suspiciously like a college dorm party but is, in fact, a serious attempt to stabilize their algorithmic stablecoin, sUSD. You see, sUSD has been having a bit of an identity crisis, trading well below its intended $1 peg. It’s like trying to sell a luxury yacht that’s actually a dinghy. 🚤

Our intrepid founder, Kain Warwick, took to X (formerly known as Twitter, because why not?) to announce this pool, which promises to shower participants with a whopping 5 million SNX tokens over the next 12 months. That’s right, folks! It’s like a lottery, but instead of winning a car, you might just win a slightly less disappointing stablecoin. 🎉

As of April 18, sUSD was limping along at $0.8224, which is a 7% improvement in just 24 hours. It had previously sunk to a dismal $0.63, which is about as appealing as a soggy sandwich. 🥪

This unfortunate decline can be traced back to some recent protocol changes under the illustrious Synthetix Improvement Proposal 420. This proposal introduced a protocol-owned staking pool and lowered the collateralization ratio for minting sUSD from a staggering 500% to a mere 200%. Because who needs stability when you can have chaos, right?

🔔 The sUSD 420 Pool is launching with rewards starting in 36 hours 🔔

SNX stakers in the 420 Pool can deposit sUSD to earn a share of 5m SNX over 12 months – or 13,698.6 SNX daily

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— Synthetix ⚔️ (@synthetix_io) April 18, 2025

Now, this change has led to a veritable explosion in sUSD supply, which is outpacing demand faster than a cat chasing a laser pointer. This has resulted in some rather amusing imbalances in decentralized exchange pools like Curve, where sUSD now constitutes over 90% of certain liquidity pairs. Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket! 🥚

Locked and Staked SNX

To join the fun in the new 420 Pool, SNX stakers must lock their sUSD for a whole year to earn those daily SNX rewards. And just to keep things interesting, those rewards will also be locked and will only start to trickle out over three months after the campaign wraps up. It’s like waiting for a bus that’s perpetually late. 🚌

While the official front-end support for this program is set to launch next week, eager beavers can get early access via Synthetix’s Discord. Because nothing says “trustworthy investment” like a chat room full of crypto enthusiasts! 😄

Synthetix has dubbed this phase a “transition period,” which is just a fancy way of saying, “We’re figuring things out as we go.” They plan to support sUSD with additional incentives and new use cases, including the upcoming Snaxchain initiative. Because if there’s one thing we need in the world of crypto, it’s more chains! 🍩

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2025-04-18 21:33