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Polycorn Finance is a no-fees and new generation yield farming application on Polygon Network that will ensure organic and sustainable growth by draining liquidity from other platforms.

Polycorn Finance

Decentralized Exchange for ERC20 and Open Protocol to serve multiple public blockchains. Loopring is not only a protocol but also a decentralized automated execution system that trades across the crypto-token exchanges, shielding users from counterparty risk and reduce the cost of trading. By essentially rising the liquidity of cryptocurrencies, we are building the financial system of the future.

Loopring

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.

Yield

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

Pendle is the first protocol that enables the trading of tokenized future yield on an AMM system. We aim to give holders of yield-generating assets the opportunity to generate additional yield and to lock in future yield upfront, while offering traders direct exposure to future yield streams, without the need for an underlying collateral.

Holders of yield-generating assets deposit their yield-bearing tokens into Pendle in order to mint an Ownership Token (OT) and a Future-Yield Token (XYT). Users can then utilize their XYT in two different ways.

Firstly, they can deposit their XYT into Pendle’s AMMs to provide liquidity to Pendle. In return, fees and other incentives are given to these liquidity providers (LP).

Secondly, they can sell their XYT for cash upfront, allowing them to fix the interest rates and lock in their returns immediately.

Traders will be able to buy these XYTs directly, without the need to lock up their underlying assets. This is a more capital-efficient way for them to gain exposure to future yield.

Pendle

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

Set Protocol is a specification for token abstraction. A Set is a new primitive that facilitates the low-cost, trustless creation and exchange of a collateralized basket of tokens.

Set Protocol

Smart contract based token exchange protocol. Bancor Protocol is a standard for a new generation of cryptocurrencies called Smart Tokens.

Bancor

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

Liquity

BarnBridge, Smart Bonds on Ethereum. A Cross Platform Fluctuation Derivatives Protocol: Tokenizing Risk with Fixed Yield and Volatility Tranche Products.

Polycorn Finance

Community around Polygon Network.