Kain Warwick

Orchestrated Synthetix's incentive allocations that directed SNX reward streams into specific Curve pools (notably sUSD‑3CRV), a concrete policy decision that materially increased TVL in those pools. Those reward programs were executed by Synthetix governance and treasury actions that explicitly tied SNX emission schedules to Curve liquidity provision, producing tangible inflows from synthetic asset holders into Curve LP positions. Engaged in cross‑protocol coordination and public governance advocacy to encourage combined incentives (Synthetix rewards plus CRV emissions) as a strategy to bootstrap and defend pool liquidity. These documented governance proposals and on‑chain multisig transactions show direct action to prioritize certain Curve gauges, which in turn changed how bribes and veCRV votes were allocated by broader stakeholders. The combined incentives changed economic calculations for liquidity providers, increasing willingness to deposit into targeted pools and to lock CRV for boost capture. Those behavioral changes were measurable in on‑chain metrics: rising TVL, increased lock durations by LPs seeking multiplier effects, and altered distribution of gauge weights that shifted CRV reward flows across pools. By explicitly committing a major protocol's emissions to Curve pools, these strategic and executable decisions altered the competitive landscape of liquidity provisioning and were a key component of the incentive arbitrage that defined early phases of the Curve Wars and long‑term CRV economics.