Asset Management

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Nexus removes the complexity of advanced yield farming strategies to deliver optimized, sustainable yield for users.

Nexus's first product will focus on borrow strategies which are available within the Terra ecosystem. The protocol will evolve and develop new vault strategies through community governance proposals and grants over time.

Maximize your yields in the Terra ecosystem with Terra’s first yield optimizer and liquidation protector vaults.

Node Capital

Richard Dai

01No.de

Rarestone Capital

SkyVision Capital

Arrington XRP Capital

DeFiance Capital

BlockTower

Nexus Protocol

Nexus Governance Token

Dharma is a protocol for generic tokenized debt agreements. Dharma is a platform for building borderless lending products using programmable, tokenized debt.

Dharma

Anchor Protocol, building the reference interest rate across the universe of blockchains.

Despite the proliferation of financial products, DeFi has yet to produce a savings product simple and safe enough to gain mass adoption. The price volatility of most cryptoassets makes staking unfit for the vast majority of consumers. On the other end of the spectrum, the cyclical nature of stablecoin interest rates on DeFi staples like Maker and Compound makes those protocols ill-suited for a household savings product. To address this pressing need we introduce Anchor, a savings protocol on the Terra blockchain that offers yield powered by block rewards of major Proof-of-Stake blockchains. Anchor offers a principal-protected stablecoin savings product that pays depositors a stable interest rate. It achieves this by stabilizing the deposit interest rate with block rewards accruing to assets that are used to borrow stablecoins. Anchor will thus offer DeFi’s benchmark interest rate, determined by the yield of the PoS blockchains with highest demand. Ultimately, we envision Anchor to become the gold standard for passive income on the blockchain.

Anchor Protocol

Mellow protocol is UNI V3 liquidity providing optimization solution. Provide your liquidity and earn high returns.

Mellow

Bloqboard — borrow, lend, settle and manage loans backed by digital assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Relayer for decentralized lending protocols. Provides traders and market makers ability to borrow and lend tokens peer-to-peer or from a liquidity pool.

Bloqboard

CompliFi is a derivatives issuance protocol on Ethereum with minimal governance, no counterparty risk, no margin calls or liquidations, and limited sensitivity to blockchain congestion. Holding a derivative carries two major risks – loss of value if the market moves against you, and inability to collect your full payoff if the market moves in your favour. CompliFi takes away the latter risk.

CompliFi creates a derivative by taking a fixed pool of collateral and issuing equal quantities of two derivative assets that together always have a claim on the entire pool. The first (“primary”) asset is the chosen derivative and second (“complement”) asset represents the opposite side of the trade. In other words, if you combine one unit of the primary asset with one unit of its complement, their respective risks cancel each other out - they can be exchanged back for a predetermined amount of collateral at any time.

The desired payoff profile is induced by redistributing the fixed amount of collateral between the two asset classes, depending on the change in value(s) of the instrument’s underlying variable(s). Payoff function of the primary asset is defined directly by the behaviour we want to achieve, while that of the complement asset is defined by its claim on the residual collateral after the primary asset has been paid off. 

For instance, if the primary asset is defined as synthetic BTC, a rise in price of BTC on external markets would result in the same percentage increase in the primary asset's share of collateral. The complement asset would, correspondingly, decline in value, since its share of collateral always equal 100% minus the share of the primary asset.

In other words, CompliFi redefines derivative payoff functions to fit within the confines of a fixed collateral pool - default is not possible by definition. This results in all instruments having an upper bound on their potential returns, reached when 100% of collateral has been redistributed in their favour. In practice, this does not result in significant limitations - the protocol can be used to create almost any desired risk exposure.

All ComliFi assets have a finite maturity - users are able to swap back into collateral at a pre-determined point in time. The assets are minted in the form of ERC20 tokens and are tradable on most limit order book protocols and automatic market makers.

CompliFi Protocol

The Umbrella Protection Protocol is designed to enable Protection Providers to earn premium fees in return for staking funds to be paid out in the event of an exploit to Protection Seekers, who stake and pay a funding rate to earn protection in such an event.

There are two pool types in the protocol, one accessed by Protection Providers and one by Protection Seekers. The first pool type are the MetaPools, which are funded by Protection Providers and provide coverage on the second pool type, the Coverage Pools, which are accessed individually by the Protection Seekers.

Each MetaPool is made up of Coverage Pools, which provide protection on specific protocols or
contracts. An example of a MetaPool could be “Lending Protocols” while the Coverage Pools that
Seekers could access would be “Compound”, “Aave”, “Cream.” If any of those protocols experienced an exploit deemed valid by the arbiter of the MetaPool, a portion of the Provider’s stake would be used in a payout to Seekers who had staked for coverage in the affected protocol’s Coverage Pool.

Umbrella Protocol

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

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

The Yield Protocol is a standard for a token that settles based on the value of a target asset on a specified future date, and which is backed by some quantity of a collateral asset. We call these tokens “yTokens.”

You can create yTokens by depositing collateral, then sell them to effectively borrow (and short) the target asset. Buying yTokens is economically similar to lending the target asset. The effective “interest rate” received by yToken holders is determined by the discount at which yTokens currently trade, as well as the time to maturity.

yTokens can also be used as a building block for more sophisticated products. While each maturity of yTokens has a fixed expiration date, you could build a perpetual product on top of it, by implementing a pool that invests in short-term yTokens and automatically rolls them over upon expiry.