Synethix founder Kain Warwick is targeting a mid-May launch of the Infinex DEX.

Synethix founder Kain Warwick has “finally” given a date for when his decentralized exchange frontend Infinex will launch after several delays from its expected Q4 2022 launch.

Infinex is targeting an official launch on May 13, Warwick said at the ETH Global conference in Sydney, Australia, on May 2.

Warwick said May 13 will be the “account launch” when Infinex users will be able to access self-managed accounts on the platform.

Infinex is a non-custodial derivative DEX front-end bidding that provides a centralized exchange user experience.

Warwick explained that Infinex will leverage Social Passkeys to allow users to log in through Web2 applications, such as Google Accounts, and reduce the “friction” that typically accompanies the standard Web3 user experience.

“The key component is that you have your own managed account, but you can effectively log into that account through Web2,” Warwick said.

“The starting point for (Infinex) is that you can have an account, deposit money into that account and earn governance points,” Warwick said. He added that the point farming game will run for a month after launch.

On March 13, Infinex suffered a security breach that saw Warwick. fast Serves as head of the project working group.

Warwick told Cointelegraph that security vulnerabilities were “part of the reason” the launch of Infinex, originally targeted for the fourth quarter of 2023, was delayed.

Warwick said the security vulnerability was a social engineering attack in which an external security consultant gained access to a password repository. The consultant was then able to modify the protocol’s DNS repository and fix Infinex’s DNS.

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“There was no money at risk because we weren’t live, but we kind of learned our lesson even before we went live, and that shouldn’t happen,” he said.

“I came in and brought in a few other people and we burned down all the systems and rebuilt everything from scratch. “It is now one of the safest environments I have ever worked in.”

Warwick shared that the May 13 launch date is the proposed launch date provided to the governing DAO (Spartan Assembly) of the Synthetix protocol, which still requires an on-chain vote to approve the launch.

He said he was confident Congress would approve. But decisions begin and end with that.

Following the launch of Infinex, Warwick hopes to secure an overall valuation of $50 million and attract 10,000 active users within the first 30 days.

“We have 200,000 people on the waiting list, but a lot of them are Sybils, airdrop farmers and bots. “We think there are 10,000 (real) users on that list,” he said.

“If we have 5,000 to 10,000 people and 50 million TVLs, I think we’ve done something right.”

Warwick added that he expects “hundreds of thousands” of users to join Infinex within a year of launch if the current market cycle remains strong.

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Additional reporting by Felix Ng.