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Root is a generalized marketplace protocol built on Beanstalk, an Ethereum-native fiat money issuer. In practice, Root facilitates the development of prediction, financial, and commerce markets on Beanstalk.

Road Capital

Soma Capital

Nima Capital

Root Protocol

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

Dharma

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

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.

Compound

The power of a financial institution in your hands. Your own investment fund. On your phone. For free.
Why? Because finance is technology. And technology is for everyone.

Forget about Bad Banks. This is Mad Max. But on Wall Street.

A$H is an investment app targeting millennial retail investors. It enables mobile investments in digital assets and offers gamification, as well as social features. The app runs on the Melon protocol, a decentralized fund management system.

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

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

Marble, an open-source bank on the Ethereum blockchain. The Marble smart contract owns Ether and tokens and makes its funds available to provably fair, low-risk protocols that require a lender.

The first of these integrations, a concept we’re calling flash lending, is deployed to the Ethereum mainnet in public beta.

Flash lending lets anyone borrow Ether and ERC20 tokens to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities on Ethereum. A smart contract can execute any arbitrary code after borrowing as long as the funds are returned to the bank within the scope of the same transaction. While simple in design, this allows developers to easily profit from inefficiencies in the prices of Ethereum assets without using their own capital.

For example, it’s possible to use flash lending to make arbitrage trades on decentralized exchanges. There are now several DEXs on Ethereum such as 0x, Bancor, and Kyber, which often have small price differences. With flash lending, a trader can borrow from the Marble bank, buy a token on one DEX, sell the token on another DEX for a higher price, repay the bank, and pocket the arbitrage profit all in a single atomic transaction.

Decentralized exchanges still account for only a very small percentage of overall trading volume of cryptoassets. Arbitrage trading creates liquidity and improves price discovery, which is an important step towards making decentralized exchanges more usable. Flash lending makes arbitrage trading more accessible by empowering traders to earn arbitrage profits without risking their own capital.

The smart contracts are deployed to the Ethereum mainnet in public beta. Visit our repo for a technical overview of our implementation. The bank currently has a balance of 2 Ether, which serves as a bug bounty. We’re excited to support a developer ecosystem, so if you are building a project that can leverage flash lending, please let us know! This might include an arbitrage bot, support for a new exchange (or for auctions, token sets, etc.), or something we haven’t even thought of yet.

We’re building Marble in a modular way, so that it can act as a generic on-chain lender in diverse use cases, such as margin trading and collateralized loans.

Marble

Goldfinch is a lending protocol for underserved global markets, co-founded by Blake West.

Goldfinch

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.

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Rent-Free Markets on Beanstalk.

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