Asset Management

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Monsoon Finance, a fully decentralized protocol for private transactions on every smart contracts, Enabling privacy, one chain at a time!

It is building a suite of privacy tools for every DeFi user of every smart contracts blockchain.

FERA Capital

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The Decentralized Derivatives Association (DDA) seeks to be the first to market with a fully functional and truly decentralized option for derivatives. Currently, all transactions on the Ethereum network, including DDA contracts, are quite expensive. With the rising price of Ether, along with full blocks necessitating higher gas prices and longer transaction times, DDA ultimately relies on the Ethereum Foundation to succeed in scaling to provide an affordable and fast Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for success. DDA is currently utilizing an Ethereum Foundation grant to develop and implement a short-term scaling solution that focuses on creating a bridged side chain for DDA products, a method that can be widely used by other Ethereum developers.

Daxia

BoringDAO, Opening a brand new era of crosschain with $BOR tokenomics! An Infrastructure Connecting Blockchain Assets and the DeFi World.

BoringDAO is a decentralized bridge between Ethereum and other Blockchain assets, we offer the opportunity for non-ERC20 assets to maximize utility and yield-generating effects.

For each blockchain asset, there will be an exclusive minting tunnel operated in the form of DAO and performing bi-directional mapping between blockchain assets and ERC-20 tokens.

BoringDAO

Notional, a protocol on Ethereum that lets you lend and borrow crypto at fixed rates. We believe that fixed rate debt markets are the natural evolution of decentralized lending and will bring a step-change in growth to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Fixed rate lending is a massive market. Fixed rate lending represents the majority of the outstanding debt in U.S. corporate and consumer markets because it allows users to borrow and lend with certainty and confidence.

Notional enables fixed rate debt on Ethereum using an entirely new on-chain AMM with dynamic curve sensitivity.

DeFi traders can lock in their borrowing costs and take advantage of new arbitrage opportunities.

Notional

Powering safe, solvent and trustless trading of any asset. MARKET Protocol has been created to provide a secure, flexible, open source foundation for decentralized trading on the Ethereum blockchain. We provide the pieces necessary to create a decentralized exchange, including the requisite clearing and collateral pool infrastructure, enabling third parties to build applications for trading.

MARKET Protocol

Save gas, save steps, infinite DeFi combinations. Build your own DeFi legos into one transaction without knowing how to code.

Create customized DeFi legos and put all strategies into one transaction. Pick up a DeFi protocol you want and set up the inputs. You can then send the transaction or pick another DeFi protocol. Drag the cube to rearrange the order of your actions. Once you’re ready to send out the transaction, connect your wallet and click “Send”.

FURUCOMBO

MakerDAO is “Decentralized Autonomous Organization” (“DAO”) operating on the Ethereum blockchain. At its core, MakerDAO permits the creation of a decentralized ‘stablecoin’ on Ethereum called Dai. A stablecoin is a token that seeks to eliminate price volatility, effectively tracking the price of a fiat currency like the US dollar. 1 Dai = 1 USD. In contrast to Dai which is a stablecoin that is suitable for payments and savings, MKR is a token that has a volatile price because of its unique supply mechanics and role on the Maker platform. MKR is a utility token, governance token and recapitalization resource of the Maker system.

Maker

Cozy Finance is building risk management software for DeFi.

We believe that open and community-driven financial applications are the future and that effective risk management plays a critical role in achieving their potential.

Cozy Finance

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

Copper is a platform for open, transparent, and user-friendly token Fair Launch Auctions, powered by Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools. The most open, transparent, and user-friendly way to participate in a Fair Launch Auction (FLA). An FLA is a simple crowdfunding mechanism that enables projects and ideas from across the world to raise money from individuals without barriers to entry.

No more middlemen, capital gatekeepers, or geographical constraints. No KYC or any sort of privileging of larger investors over smaller ones. Capital can now flow freely and directly toward empowering the ideas that deserve it, while enabling investors of all sizes and backgrounds to fairly participate in capitalizing on these early stage opportunities.

Any idea can now be bootstrapped by an invested community and thus established as a transparent and equitable partnership. This is the future of new venture funding and Copper is here to make this vision a reality by unlocking the world’s “value reserves” to be “mined” by anyone — fairly, transparently and equitably.

Monsoon

Enabling privacy, one chain at a time.

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