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Compound is an open-source protocol for algorithmic, efficient Money Markets on the Ethereum blockchain. Seamlessly earn interest or borrow ERC-20 tokens without managing an order book.

ConsenSys Mesh

Divergence Ventures

Uncorrelated

Robot Ventures

A195 Capital

Uniswap

Stratos Technologies

PARADIGM

Dragonfly Capital Partners

Transmedia

Chapter One

Compound VC

Abstract Ventures

DHVC

Bain Capital Ventures

Polychain Capital

Coinbase Ventures

a16z crypto

Adam Bavosa

Jared Flatow

Coburn Berry

Torrey Atcitty

Max Wolff

Jake Chervinsky

Calvin Liu

Jayson Hobby

Geoffrey Hayes

Robert Leshner

Antonina Norair

Nick Martitsch

Mykel Pereira

Compound

Compound Treasury

cETH

cDAI

cUSDC

PowerPool is a solution for accumulating governance power in Ethereum based protocols.

The decision-making is playing a central role in everyone’s life. No matter how serious decisions you make, you are personally affected by many choices of other entities like governments, corporations, financial institutions, and many others. Despite the democratic nature of developed societies, all of them de-facto are governed by influencers of different types — corporations, syndicates, and people with political influence and colossal capital.

The crypto industry and, in particular, the DeFi space is considered to be even more democratic and decentralized in decision-making and value distribution. On-chain governance mechanisms are regarded as a holy grail to make our industry sustainable and resilient. Recently it became evident that Defi in 2020 de-facto develops under the slogan “everyone gets a governance token” (from now “governance token” = GT). No doubts, a lot of crypto users are involved in dozens of “governance experiments” now with varying degrees of quality. Even third-tier and almost dead scammy ICOs try to become a “Defi startup” and introduce a governance token.

The main difference of nowadays hype from the previous ones (like ICO’s bubble) is that some platforms have dozens of thousands of users and billions of dollars of cumulative locked capital. So, governance questions become especially important when we are talking about vast amounts of money. These tokens are not useless (as they were in the ICO epoch) and play a vital role in the ecosystem. The total capitalization of governance tokens can be assumed as ~3–4 bln USD, and it snowballs. It is possible to make a bold prediction about the $25 bln valuations at the end of 2020.

The main question that arises here is the real monetary value of such tokens for different groups of stakeholders. If there is a significant economic activity on the protocol, the possibility of governing is valuable.

PowerPool

Cover Protocol, YieldFarming.Insure, Insurance Mining. This is a completely valueless governance token and anyone who doesn't want to govern SAFE should not participate.

Cover Protocol

Aave is an open source and non-custodial protocol enabling the creation of money markets. Users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.

AAVE

Gelato, Automate your Ethereum smart contracts. Outsource your web3 DevOps needs and enjoy the perks of Ethereum's most reliable bot network at your fingertips.

Gelato enables users & developers to automate their Ethereum dapp interactions with projects like Uniswap, Maker or Compound.

Gelato

Smart Contract Cover. Building an open community enabling business ready smart contracts. Smart Contract Cover will not be a contract of insurance. Fellow members will decide on claims. Claim payments will be enforced by token driven economic incentives rather than placing trust in an insurance company.

Nexus Mutual

BITSO, to buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TrueUSD, Decentraland, Golem & Basic Attention Token.

BITSO

Liquity Protocol, Decentralized Borrowing Protocol. Interest free borrowing, built on Ethereum. Decentralized protocol that provides interest-free liquidity against Ether.

Liquity

Enzyme Finance, formerly known as Melon (Re-brand in progress). A fast & cost-effective way to build, scale and monetize investment strategies. It is directly inspired by our users and the DeFi community at large. We couldn’t be more excited to unveil it with you.

Entirely new smart contract architecture: allowing for much higher flexibility with integrations and substantial gas savings.

Upgradability: users can seamlessly upgrade to future Enzyme versions and access the latest protocol updates & features.

100+ Asset Universe: Enzyme supports nearly 150 assets to choose from when managing your portfolios!

Lending enabled for Portfolio Managers: Users can enhance performance by earning yields on positions via lending protocols (eg. Compound & MakerDAO’s Chai).

AMM pools enabled for portfolios: Users can earn trading fees by providing liquidity to AMM pools (e.g. Uniswap), thus enhancing their performance.

Synthetic assets are live: Users can include synthetic assets in their funds including commodities and stock indices such as sFTSE, sNIKKEI and sOIL to name just a few!

Enhanced trading liquidity is live: aside from our DEX integrations, we’ve also included Paraswap as an aggregator in giving fund managers access to much deeper liquidity and higher gas optimisations for trading.

Bearish? Go short now!: Users can take synthetic short positions through the large range of inverse tokens provided by Synthetix.

Engage with other users today: you can now add information about your strategy and team on your own personalised Portfolio Manager page, so that you can build relationships with your community of investors.

Start farming!: Enzyme products can now more easily access farming rewards from external DeFi platforms via plugins.

Delegating trading to a 3rd party: Portfolio Managers are able to delegate trading to additional addresses and revoke or change that access at any time, increasing their flexibility to manage their trading operation.

Choose a benchmark you feel comfortable with: Pick which token to benchmark your performance against. Benchmark your performance against different fiat-pegged stable coins and more.

Customise things your way: You can opt to whitelist certain addresses that can invest in your portfolio and set minimum investment thresholds.

Enzyme Finance

Yam is an experimental protocol building upon the most exciting innovations in programmable money and governance. Built by a team of DeFi natives, it seeks to create:

• an elastic supply to seek eventual price stability
• a governable treasury to further support stability
• fully on-chain governance to enable decentralized control and evolution from Day 1
• a fair distribution mechanism that incentivizes key community members to actively take the reins of governance

At its core, YAM is an elastic supply cryptocurrency, which expands and contracts its supply in response to market conditions, initially targeting 1 USD per YAM. This stability mechanism includes one key addition to existing elastic supply models such as Ampleforth: a portion of each supply expansion is used to buy yCurve (a high-yield USD-denominated stablecoin) and add it to the Yam treasury, which is controlled via Yam community governance.

We have built Yam to be a minimally viable monetary experiment, and at launch there will be zero value in the YAM token. After deployment, it is entirely dependent upon YAM holders to determine its value and future development. We have employed a fork of the Compound governance module, which will ensure all updates to the Yam protocol happen entirely on-chain through community voting.

Yam Finance