UMIP 34- Add SynthereumDerivativeFactory as Creator in DVM registry

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Due to necessity and after discussing with the UMA team, their perpetual contract system was modified to fit the needs of our protocol. The contracts that were modified:

  • PerpetualCreator.sol was modified to create SynthereumPerpetualPoolPartyCreator.sol
  • Perpetual.sol was modified to create SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol
  • SynthereumDerivativeFactory.sol is a new contract that is derived from SynthereumPerpetualPoolPartyCreator.sol to restrict deployment access.

Below is an overview of the modifications:

The deposit/withdraw and create/redeem functions in SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol can only be called by the Synthereum protocol.

All funding rate logic was removed from SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol . In Synthereum, the token sponsor is a contract and any synthetic asset bought/sold on the open market can be created/burned in exchange for its exact value in collateral based on a price feed, which guarantees a perfect arbitrage between Synthereum and DEXs, thus maintaining the peg.

Since our assets are perpetual, if we wanted to upgrade or change something in the derivative contract (change of collateral, for instance) it would require a new perpetual token to be deployed, which will create friction for end-users, liquidity providers, and protocols where our synthetic tokens are integrated. Thus, we wanted to be able to deploy a new derivative contract, but link it to the preexisting perpetual token. This upgradability was added in SynthereumPerpetualPoolPartyCreator.sol .

SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol was split into separate libraries in order to optimize the gas consumption. Note: this is detailed below in the Technical Specification section.

The emergencyShutdown functionality in SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol has been modified to not only be callable by the UMA DVM, but also by the Jarvis DAO.

Once SynthereumDerivativeFactory.sol receives the Creator role it will register every SynthereumPerpetualPoolParty.sol that is deployed through it with Registry.sol so they can request prices from the DVM.