Asset Management

Startups

Teahouse’s mission is to bridge traditional finance with the fast-expanding DeFi metaverse. We aim to develop a seamless infrastructure to help non-DeFi-savvy strategists to focus on what they are good at — building intricate models for advanced concentrated liquidity.

Darryl Wang

DWeb3 Capital

AVATAR

Double Peak

Momentum 6

Divergence Ventures

Evernew Capital

CMS Holdings

Triblock Advisory

Zee Prime Capital

Spark Digital Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Darren Lau

Alves Ventures

SkyVision Capital

AngelDAO

NGC Ventures

Nima Capital

Mindfulness Capital

Jack Herrick

DeFiance Capital

Mr Block

PANTERA Capital

Teahouse

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

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

Bancor

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

Goldfinch

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

Emeris, Experience the Power of Cross-Chain DeFi. Created by Tendermint Inc.

Emeris is a one-stop portal for all crypto apps, no matter what blockchain they run on. Let users experience cross-chain DeFi like never before.

Emeris has a simple goal: providing access to a wide range of decentralized applications scattered around various blockchain ecosystems in a single, easy-to-use interface. Starting as a non-custodial, cross-chain DeFi dashboard, Emeris will soon extend its line of products with other entries like a mobile app and a browser extension wallet.

As for the long term vision of Emeris, it revolves around one main concept: blockchain agnosticism. Emeris seeks to integrate the best decentralized applications no matter what sector they belong to or what blockchain they run on. It will provide access to various types of protocols, from lending and yield farming to NFT marketplaces, payment applications, data storage, and many other use cases.

Interoperability is at the core of Emeris’ vision. We will prioritize integrating blockchains that have an interoperability gateway (a bridge, an IBC connection, or another type of connection) with the rest of the ecosystem. This way, users can enjoy the entirety of what the internet of blockchains has to offer, no matter which ecosystem they originally come from.

Emeris

Rari Capital, The smartest roboadvisor that ensures you receive the highest yield, far beyond just lending.

Easily deposit DAI and we'll rebalance to maximize your returns. We do more than just lend on basic protocols. We do market making, insurance providing and so much more to ensure that you get the best return on your money.

Rari Capital

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

Recently, we've seen a boom in decentralized finance (DeFi). The exponential growth and FOMO sentiment around DeFi have attracted many new crypto investors and developers to the space and have stimulated the interest of traditional financial players. Everyone hunts for gems in the DeFi world.

The exploration is worthwhile, but your funds, time and chances are limited, and you can never fully catch all investment opportunities.

However, in DEGO, things would be different.

DEGO adopts a modular design. Modularity refers to the combination of various elements of the product to form a subsystem with specific functions. We combine these subsystem as a universal module with other modules to create a new system with multiple functions and performance.

In short, each product can be regarded as a module. After a combination of different modules, a new product comes out, thereby achieving the effect of 1+1>2. LEGO bricks are the best example and inspiration for those modules. Every brick is plain and ordinary, but it generates endless possibilities when put together.

DEGO equals to LEGO in the DeFi world. With each DeFi protocol as a brick, like Stable Coin (DAI), Lending (Aave, Compound), DEX (Uniswap and Balancer), Derivatives (Synthetix), Insurance (Nexus Mutual), we will build a new dApp to enhance the value of DeFi, creating diversified investment portfolios and generating substantial financial returns for users. DEGO will become the entrance to the future of financial services.

DEGO

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.