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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Blueswap in-house AMA Summary

On Layered farming

🧢Q1. What is the purpose of layered farming (GREEN, PURPLE and future colours)?

Layered farming makes natives token valuable by enabling them to farm new tokens with less inflation.

Also, contract already deployed cannot be changed.

So to add new functions or fix something, we should deploy newly developed farms.

Layers are not one-directional flow. Organically connecting them to contribute each other would be the point.

🧢 Q2. Is layered farming like any other yield farming sites where one takes advantage of high APRs and exit before others? At the end of the day, this is a zero-sum game. The project is not generating ‘revenue’, so people have profited are being paid by funds from new investors.

I totally agree with that. That's why i keep emphasizing the continuous external flow of income at my medium article.

https://palettefinance.medium.com/dev-thoughts-on-blueswap-tokenomics-1a7e4080a653

At first, it's just okay just with the internal flows, but whether it be buyback, vault, airdrop, all these measure are very limited in funds without the external flow in the end. That's why we are introducing delegate farming to use our TVL to earn external income.

🧢Q3. Understand that DEV team intends to create value for each token. How do we know what is the true value of GREEN or PURPLE? What is the incentive to keep them now given the price keeps decreasing?

Even Bitcoin has gone through -90% dip. Only pure ponzi like bit-connect goes up one way until it pops. We are only a month old project and have so many more to show you. Currently, we are controlling our pace with the new features and layers but shortly there will be a new feature to give holders 'true' value you guys always looked for.

🧢 Q4. Is it a better strategy to always sell GREEN and PURPLE to buy BLUE, and only buy GREEN and PURPLE when you need them or when there are use cases for them?

Absolutely not. Of course Blue is the core token but each token will have it's own use-case for them and price will of course fluctuate according to the various market situations. We're closely looking at the price of all of the tokens.

🧢Q5. What is the intended use case for GREEN?

Firstly, you should really read the medium article above at least once. GREEN is the color of greedy goblin and will be used on every gambling situation in palette finance's features.

For example, it's not yet to be revealed but i'll leak some of the details for the AMA participants

Soon , there will be a lock-vault for royal holders. They're features to boost your share at the vault with some ways. One of them will be by using green to get a random multiplier for the boost. 'Gambling situation'

🧢Q6. Understand that this is for the purpose of NFTs? Perhaps you can shed some light on how PURPLE will be utilized for NFTs? You may not need to give us all the info now, but you can consider releasing bit by bit to keep everyone excited so they do not dump PURPLE.

Currently, most of the NFTs are just only collectibles. Top shot, backeryswap NFT markets, flow, and so on. Doesn't produce any value unless someone buys it with higher price. But in our system, NFT will have distinctive power with the farming.

At the future layer NFT can be bought with only PURPLE to get higher income, unlock the locked reward and so on. You'll need many purple to maximize your income.

Of course, they will also be very beautiful with artistic touch :)

🧢Q7. How does the dev team decide the price of Palette Lottery ticket? It appears to change every week? Given that it changes every week, dev team could potentially manipulate the price of BLUE/GREEN/PURPLE. For example, if dev decides this week more GREEN tokens are needed, naturally GREEN price will go up (probably at the expense of BLUE) if people decide to play with the lottery. Can you clarify the strategy behind?

Yes it changes every week. Actually, new round should start right after this AMA. You saw it right. Price and what token is needed are decided by the market situation. In case we need to increase the demand of certain tokens, we'll increase the use-case of that token in current situation. We don't let any tokens to die naturally. Remember, no colors left behind.

🧢 Q8. How does SketchBox works?

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It's really straight forward. Just choose what token you'll use to buy a box, write the amount you'll buy. Approve the usage of the token and click buy. That's all!

We'll get airdropped with reward tokens according to the drop rates which you can see on the right side.

🧢Q9. What I noticed is that the rewards are basically DEPOSIT FEE that dev team collected? Is this just another form of lottery?

Lottery is what you buy the ticket, wait for the winners to be picked. There's a competition if many people buy the ticket. In Sketchbox, the probability is fixed as written 'drop rate' on the right side. Reward will be airdropped right after you open the box(buy).

🧢Q10. Ultimately, dev team could have chosen to sell those DEPOSIT FEE, buy back BLUE and burn (which could benefit all BLUE holders)? If someone who ‘wins’ the SketchBox, they are likely to sell those ‘rewards’ BUT not buy any BLUE tokens therefore none of the BLUE holders will benefit.

.We are trying to create a more sustainable economy here. Definitely not with methods like buyback which will only rewards the harsh dumpers not holders. We're going to make sure long term holders #ROYALHOLDERS are participant of the reward system and take the rewards.

In sketchbox, drop rate is adjusted to save some part of the bought tickets. (Total bought value > total reward value considering the probabilities). So that it can keep save some funds for the next sketch round. That's why we are making it a LP, not pure native token. So that we don't have to sell tokens to fund sketch rewards

🧢Q11. From what I understand is that crazy allocation point will be given to selected pools (i.e. BLUE/GREEN, BLUE/PURPLE pools) at random time for 12 hours. Again, this is essentially taking rewards from other pools to pay people who are in these 2 pools. Therefore, BLUE holders who stake in BLUE-BNB or BLUE-BUSD, or even BANANA-BLUE, SALT-BLUE, SOUL-BLUE are essentially ‘punished’. Is this correct?

Yes! That's why we are not doing this longer than 12hrs. Actually total alloc point is larger than you think so each pool's apr will not be affected a lot. We could have chosen to increase the reward block itself but that would mean more inflation and supply. Also, we wanted to pin point the frenzi reward to BLUE,Green, Purple holders.

After this, there will be a random frenzi rotation through native token pair pools at a random time . So don't get disappointed when your pool is not included this time :)

LIVE Questions

🧢 Q12 Hello, how will you manage inflation that that we see in the last week, all tokens slowly decreasing in value because farmers choose to sell their gaining on a daily basis. I know that there will be another deflationary mechanics but from what I saw in the last days, in case of event, event specific coin gets pumped and returns to steady decrease. How would you stop this or do you want to stop this?

A: Okay, until now every tokens were in their inflation period. Blue will end it and goes to the deflationary period first among them. That means the end of the Blue farm. No more supply but only burning left. There will be no way to earn more blue but usage and burning of it will keep increase. People will have to buy them unless they hold it already to maximize there profit.

🧢 Q13 Are there any plans for air drop? Some legacy blue holders that did not have 100 blue might not have qualified for the last drop.

Airdrops were done when we didn't have any features to reward the holders. We'll provide more sophisticated way from now on.

🧢 Q14 Who are royal blue holders? Is there any condition?

Condition will vary in every situation. For example, there's only 'max cap' at the pool now. But later, some pools or vaults will have 'min cap'. Which means you'll have to hold certain amount of tokens to enter that pool. In some situation, there will be a condition of 'holding X amount of Y' to deposit. This way, some high yield pool will only be accessible to royal holders.

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With the upcoming native DeX coming to a specific Cosmos Hub near you, I wanted to talk a little about what it means to be in the Cosmos Network ecosystem and how it is very much like a nation-state economy where each piece of the puzzle produces a product to export its value to other chains. As a whole, it benefits the Cosmos Ecosystem to have brilliant and innovative products to offer to other “nation states”, so I want to cover the “exports” and “imports” that will be possible with the DeX, the figurative dock to Cosmos Hubs' port city

Here is a list of pieces of information covering all the block chains that are intending to connect to the Cosmos Hub via IBC in the coming year. The purpose of this is to have an easy access point to understanding each chains' real world utility all in one place, it is simply an overview, please do your own research.

 Cosmos - $ATOM – cosmos.network

Cosmos is an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, built for a decentralized future. “The Internet of Blockchains.”

Serving as the economic center of Cosmos, the Cosmos Hub is the first-of-its-kind blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and powered by Tendermint BFT Consensus that provides vital services to the interchain. Cosmos apps and services connect using IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. This innovation enables you to freely exchange assets and data across sovereign, decentralized blockchains and changes the way we all see blockchain.

The Cosmos Hub will function as a marketplace, or a “port-city” set to operate a next-gen decentralized exchange in the next month, swapping digital assets from across the Interchain, with very low fees and instant transaction confirmation. With Shared Security in the very near future, ATOM will soon be securing many chains, in exchange for additional staking rewards. With the core mission of the Hub being to connect chains together and by establishing IBC connections with compatible chains and operating decentralized bridges with chains like Ethereum and Bitcoin, it will become the port-city it was envisioned to be.

The following have already connected to the Cosmos Hub:

IRISNet - $IRIS - https://www.irisnet.org/

IRISNet is building a technology foundation which facilitates construction of distributed business applications with plans to integrate services as a public chain service portal, providing a new low-threshold and accessible development environment for technology developers in the ecosystem.

IRISnet is an Interchain Service Hub for NextGen Distributed Applications that is approved by China! Developed by Bianjie AI and Tendermint Inc. the IRIS Hub is the second Cosmos Hub to support IBC enabling cross-chain interoperability within the Cosmos ecosystem. IRIS Hub is the first regional hub connected to the Cosmos main Hub which means all zones connected to the IRIS Hub will be able to interact with any other hub or zone in the Cosmos ecosystem. All part of the vision of an internet of blockchains. Bianjie contributes to the Cosmos ecosystem through both technical development and community building, even running a validator for the Cosmos Hub.

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The following have announced they will be connecting to the Hub soon:

 Akash - $AKT - https://akash.network/

Akash, “The Unstoppable Cloud.” The world's first decentralized open source cloud for DeFi.

Censorship-resistant, permission-less, and self-sovereign, Akash DeCloud is a faster, more efficient, and lower cost cloud built for DeFi, decentralized projects, and high growth companies, providing unprecedented scale, flexibility, and price performance. Up to 10x lower in cost, a serverless computing platform that is compatible with all cloud providers and all applications that run on the cloud.

For the first time developers can break free from the censorship limits of centralized cloud providers, and deploy faster, more efficiently, and at lower cost. Developers will be able to launch applications such as DeFi apps, blogs, games, data visualizations, block explorers, blockchain nodes, and other blockchain network components on a decentralized cloud. Akash has announced integrations and partnerships with Tendermint, Cosmos, Cosmos’s Interchain Foundation, Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC), Solana, Kava, and Chainlink.

 Regen Network – $REGEN - https://www.regen.network/ - (Launching April 15)

Regen Network incentivizes regenerative land use practices, restores ecosystems and helps to reverse climate change.

The Regen Network is building an open community that holds resources and tools such as high-quality data about ecological subjects. Regen Registry allows land stewards to sell their ecosystem services directly to buyers around the world.

Regen Ledger is a public, proof of stake (PoS) blockchain developed with the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK) built for verification of claims, agreements & data related to ecological state. Regen Ledger enables multiple registries to communicate and transact with each other producing a public ecological accounting system.

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 Starname - $IOV - https://www.starname.me/

Starname is sort of a decentralized version of PayPal or Venmo, without the hassle of dealing with banking details or a KYC process and Starname Manager is noncustodial.

Starname (IOV) is a decentralized username service that is innovating the internet of payments. Starname allows users to create a username, or \*starname, that can be used to replace cryptocurrency addresses to receive payments, with Starname Manager being blockchain agnostic it means you can send/receive more than just IOV to your Starname address. Starname removes the middle-man when making payments across the internet allowing for a true p2p online payment platform.

IOV is the staking, gas and governance token for the Starname network; it is also used to pay the fees when creating a Starname, renewing or transferring them. As each individual Starname is an NFT they will be tradable as NFTs across the Cosmos ecosystem. Starname fees vary based on basic and premium names(basic\*iov or \*premium format) and character length, minimum 4 which is the most expensive.

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 Althea - $ALTG - https://althea.net/

Althea is a essentially an ISP (internet service provider) in a box: fast, affordable, locally run internet running on block chain technology, anywhere.

Althea is a set of internet protocols with payment built in, creating incentives for rapid expansion and investment in the network. Althea provides a way for people maintaining internet infrastructure to be funded and compensated autonomously, without the need for governments or businesses. Althea's unique cooperative vision for the internet empowers communities to build multi-stakeholder networks faster and more affordably than legacy telecom models. Althea is faster, because their unique billing system ensures that incentives are aligned with stakeholders that can earn more money by providing faster service.

With a price-aware routing protocol that makes sure that traffic takes the cheapest path, an Althea router gets the best prices, second by second. The networks are made up of nodes owned by the people who use them and are locally managed and governed. Althea is a full service solution that enables anyone to easily build and manage a network that tracks revenue, payments, and system maintenance in easy to understand graphs and charts.

 Sentinel - $DVPN - https://sentinel.co/

The Sentinel Network hosts open-source distributed and decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is not being logged, their communication is not being stored, and that not even the creator of the application can view any of their data.

Sentinel dVPN is already the most widely adopted decentralized VPN solution in blockchain. It created a product framework that existing centralized VPN companies can use to translate their system and continue branding. The framework has a reduced cost and time in the process of dVPN Application Development. It lowers the potential security threads and risks associated with hackers and manages nodes and handle of DMCA requests.

Sentinel has developed ‘Proof of Bandwith’ a new — first-of-its-kind — mechanism capable of verifying the amount of bandwidth consumed in the network in a truly decentralized manner. Verifying bandwidth consumption in a peer-to-peer crypto-network has been a fundamental problem, resulting in most dVPN networks relying on the work of trusted intermediaries or ‘permissioned nodes’.

Sentinel is totally transparent, the code behind the Sentinel dVPN is fully revealed to the public on Sentinel’s GitHub profile along with the application MD5 Checksums for absolute provability. Servers are hosted all over the world by the community, for the community. Users can choose the optimal server for the fastest browsing and download speeds. Anyone can host a exit or relay node on Sentinel. Sentinel will always have a free tier of nodes for people to try the product out. These nodes will be newer nodes that are building up trust and reputation on the network.

Sentinel’s ethos is to provide the privacy-preserving networking backbone for the internet, allowing entrepreneurs and existing organizations to establish their own white-labelled VPN at minimal cost or difficulty. Military Grade Encryption: users can choose from SOCKS5 or OpenVPN servers which enforce quantum level encryption standards such as AES 256 or Poly1305.

Band - $BAND - https://bandprotocol.com/

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that aggregates and connect real-world data and APIs to smart contracts.

Blockchains are great at immutable storage and deterministic, verifiable computations. However, they cannot access trusted real-world information available outside their networks. Band Protocol enhances smart contract functionalities by granting them access to reliable data without any central points of failure.

Decentralized Finance applications need price feeds on token swap and loan collateralization process. With Band Protocol’s built-in price oracle, developers can build DeFi with an absolute peace of mind that the price feeds they’re using are robust and tamper-proof.Band Protocol's flexible oracle design allows developers to use any data including real-world events, sports, weather, random numbers and more. Developers can create custom-made oracles using WebAssembly to connect smart contracts with traditional web APIs within minutes.

Kava - $KAVA , $USDX , $HARD - https://www.kava.io/

The Kava platform is being called “DeFi for Crypto” as it is designed to offer using collateralized loans based on a variety of different cryptocurrencies.

It’s a cross-chain platform that offers a service similar to that of Maker DAO, but where Maker supports ETH and eventually ERC-20, Kava is capable of providing collateralized debt positions on any cryptocurrency theoretically. Kava’s multi-chain DeFi lending platform offers USDX stablecoin loans and Chainlink oracle data to major blockchains and end-user applications as well as a lending and borrowing platform similar to AAVE, Compound via HARD protocol.

Kava.io is the first cross-chain DeFi hub providing applications and services to the world's largest cryptocurrencies. Kava’s platform operates as a decentralized bank for digital assets connecting users with products like stablecoins, loans, and interest-bearing accounts so that they can do more and earn more with their digital assets.

 Commercio - $COM - https://commercio.network/project/

Commercio is “The Documents Blockchain” that allows companies to create identities, sign and exchange business documents among its participants.

Commercio is a sovereign network that has its own native Utility Token called Commercio Token which will incentivize members to manage the network and incentivize members to grow the network by bringing in other members. “The Documents Blockchain” refers to the main purpose of Commercio.network which is to act as a network to facilitate the exchange of business documents between companies using the blockchain technology which is decentralized, immutable and distributed. The protocol is organized on an open-source software project entirely based on Blockchain technology and focused on the needs of companies.

Commercio ensures that the paternity of a document was created by a declared sender, that the validity of the sender can not deny having electronically signed the document, and that the integrity of the document has not been altered during transport. Every company can exchange its documents securely provided that it is invited into the network by another company that is already an active member and adopts the protocol.

Commercio.network significantly reduce the amount of companies’ current investments in IT infrastructure and security for eID, eSignature, and eDelivery. Commercio.network with its own Sovereign network is something halfway between the Public Blockchain and the permissioned Blockchain, an hybrid solution that encompasses the best of both worlds.

 LikeCoin - $LIKE - https://like.co/

LikeCoin is a Decentralized Publishing Infrastructure for Decentralized Archive, Decentralized Rewards, Decentralized Curation and Decentralized Governance.

Likecoin is a newly formed cyptocurrency that is trying to solve a problem on the online reward system for creative content. Instead of the usual proof of work (POW) or proof of stake (POS), LikeCoin has a very special feature which is called the proof of creativity (POC). Borrowed from the concept of ISBN for books, ISCN is a unique identifier assigned to content such as articles and images, and comes with metadata such as author, publisher, content address, license terms and creation footprint.

Stored on LikeCoin chain, ISCN is immutable and censorship resilient. The content, on the other hand, is stored on IPFS for tamper resistance and peer-to-peer distribution. By simply attaching a LikeCoin button beneath your content and without setting up a paywall, every Like by readers is turned into measurable rewards in LikeCoin tokens. The core component of LikeCoin is LikeCoin chain, a public blockchain tailor-made for content publishing, supporting the “Republic of Liker Land”.

LikeCoin has its own App, and can also be utilized on WordPress, Medium, Vocus, Blogspot Blogger.com, Pixnet and other content platforms.

 Terra - $LUNA , $UST - https://terra.money/

Terra created its own (non-collateralized, algorthmic) stablecoin called Terra USD (UST) and it stabilizes price through an algorithm without collateral.

The target price of UST is maintained by adjusting the supply. When there is a high demand for Terra USD, UST will be trading at above a dollar. Terra will increase new supply of UST to bring down the price back to a dollar. Vice versa, if demand for Terra USD falls, the protocol buys back Terra to reduce supply and bring prices back up. The elastic supply model expands and contracts based on demand and arbitrage opportunities will incentivize the price to be at US$1.

To mint a new supply of UST, you have to burn LUNA and swap them to UST. Likewise, if you want to mint LUNA, UST is bought back and burned. Every time a transaction is made, fees are paid to LUNA holders. LUNA accrued value is then used to collateralize Terra value in the ecosystem.

Anchor protocol is a saving protocol that pays 20% interest over deposited UST with little to no risk. Mirror protocol which tracks the value of synthetic assets like stocks, bonds and other crypto's called mAssets. This way with Terra you can have exposure to a stock you can't buy. CHAI is the payments app which is available only and quite popular in Korea.

Secret Network - $SCRT - https://scrt.network/

Secret Network is the only decentralized blockchain that provides provable and programmable privacy, allowing applications to use encrypted data instead of exposing it on-chain. And that means you can build incredible things with Secret that you can’t build anywhere else in the blockchain space.

Secret Network is a first-of-its-kind, open-source blockchain that provides data privacy by default. While blockchains have the promise to create a more open and sustainable Internet, they've been held back by one major flaw: they expose all your data to everyone. A better Internet must protect data privacy and give users and organizations control over how their data is used and shared. Secret is a decentralized network that finally solves this problem of privacy, helping to secure and scale the decentralized web.

As the first blockchain to support encrypted inputs, encrypted outputs, and encrypted state for smart contracts, Secret Network allows for new kinds of powerful decentralized applications to be built.

Ki Foundation - $XKI - https://foundation.ki/

Ki foundation is a Neobank bridging traditional wealth and Decentralized Finance.

It allows you to invest in the stock market and high yield real estate through the Klub app, provides a platform to ease Fiat on-ramp, convert FIAT to XKI and back, and allow payments through a Visa debit card, so you could send XKI to you wallet, swap it to EUR and use the Klub card to pay in the supermarket, hotel or book a flight with it. There are multiple levels of premium cards, unlocking more features and bonuses for Klub members. It integrates in our new generation’s consumption habits, driving loyalty of usage through entertainment, lifestyle and wealth generation.

To get access to the Klub cards you lock up XKI to the KLUB validator, every Klub rank has a minimum lock up amount. Once you pay with the Klub card you’ll be getting returns on all your orders (0.1%-0.2%) and up to 20% on Klub partners transactions. Ki foundation buys back XKI from mayor exchanges and uses it for transactions. The Klub app also advises you on stocks and cryptocurrencies. At this moment Ki Foundation has around 50 partners including Netflix, Spotify, Marriott, Deliveroo, Accor and booking.com. XKI is said to get listed on a major exchange Q2 of 2021.

Cyber – $EUL → $CYB - https://cyber.page/

Cyber is sort of a decentralized version of Google managed by its users, with the ambition and vision of being a self-sustained, decentralized super computer providing answers to questions.

There are two open-source applications built on Cyber, a decentralized Google alternative and also a decentralized Twitter alternative. Cyber is trying to solve the problem of data centralization, centralization of knowledge and censorship of information. Cyber is a decentralized protocol for searching and adding information to a knowledge graph, it ranks information according to relevance rather than a centralized algorithm.

Cyber only searches for content links, which eliminates censorship of the platform created by algorithms. Information, content and keywords are added by users and search results are found based on that data. Users can add content to Cyber by creating Cyber links which can be text, IPFS hash, URL, file, photo, video, audio, contact, location, video or voice. Governance is decentralized and controlled by the network. Cyber as $EUL is in testnet and will become $CYB at mainnet.

Persistence One – $XPRT - https://persistence.one/

Persistence is building an ecosystem of financial products, focusing on both institutional and crypto-native use cases.

Persistence facilitates the borrowing of crypto assets using real world assets as collateral. Bringing DeFi tools to institutional investors and institutional finance tools to crypto investors. The Persistence tech stack provides the infrastructure to effectively bridge the decentralized and traditional financial realms in a variety of areas:

Pstake is a liquid staking application to unlock liquidity for assets staked on PoS chains, allowing stakers to boost yields from their staked assets.

AUDIT.one is a Staking-as-a-Service solution for proof-of-stake networks.

Comdex is an institutional-facing commodities trading and trade financing platform, is the flagship DApp in the Persistence ecosystem.

pLend is a stablecoin lending platform backed by real-world assets that will enable stablecoin holders to supply liquidity to pools to support operations on Comdex

Asset Mantle is a framework for NFT marketplaces providing all the elements required to create individual marketplaces, they are researching NFTs as real world assets such as a bill of lading.

Microtick - $TICK - https://microtick.com/

The Microtick project is a new mechanism for decentralized price discovery and trading.

The vision of Microtick is to create a trading system more suited for blockchain usage where blocks come at discrete, relatively infrequent and often unpredictable times; and then build upon that vision to create a new trading paradigm that not only works better on, but promotes decentralized trading over the legacy centralized paradigm. The Microtick project’s goal is to provide a globally agreed upon, real-time consensus price - without requiring direct financial coupling to any underlying asset. The project is built on decentralized blockchain technology and the game-theoretical foundation of Schelling points.

Microtick is a cosmos-based project that allows for price discovery of blockchain assets onchain instead of relying on an oracle to inject prices from the outside, it brings the benefits of a global, real-time reference price to decentralized, private trades on the underlying asset. its price discovery stems from a two-sided marketplace where traders can enter leveraged positions on a very short-term basis. Choose a trading timeframe that suits your needs: 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 12 hours. Or, take the role of “Market Maker” and provide your own assertions about an asset’s price and volatility.

‍Because Microtick’s consensus price can be hedged in either direction, it has the ability to decouple price discovery from order book trade execution and bring the benefits of a global, real-time reference price to decentralized, private trades on the underlying asset - wherever in the world they may occur.

The following are still in development:

Juno – JUNO - https://junochain.com

Juno aims to provide a sandbox environment for the deployment of inter-operable smart contracts.

An interoperable smart contract hub which automatically executes, controls or documents a procedure of relevant events and actions according to the terms of such contract or agreement to be valid & usable across multiple sovereign networks.

Juno as a sovereign public blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem serves as a decentralized, permission-less & censorship resistant avenue for developers to efficiently and securely launch application specific smart contracts using proven frameworks and compile them in various languages.

Agoric - (TBA) - https://agoric.com/

Agoric is a robust architecture for building secure smart contracts based in JavaScript for maximum reach.

Agoric empowers developers to execute transactions, establish new markets, and craft novel exchanges - all without centralized control. Agoric uses an object-capability (ocap) security architecture, in which access to a programming object itself is the authority to use the object. All kinds of digital assets can be easily created, but importantly, they can be transferred in exactly the same ways, with exactly the same security properties.

Building on 30 years of experience, Agoric is developing a secure distributed ocap platform for smart contracts and market-oriented programming. The platform supports the development of smart contracts and market institutions across many different scales, from large public blockchains to small two-party contracts.

Osmosis - $OSMO – Osmosis.Zone

Osmosis is a Next-Gen AMM sandbox with customizable curves, fees and other parameters.

Osmosis is a protocol that will allow developers to design, develop and deploy customized AMMs. Osmosis is designed to be an efficient solution that is experimental in nature and customizable to meet the demands of the users. Osmosis will have IBC built in from day 1 allowing for connections across the entire Cosmos ecosystem. Along with Cosmos assets Osmosis will support ETH/ERC20 through the Althea Gravity bridge and eventually BTC.

With customizable curves, fees and other parameters Osmosis sets itself apart from other simple AMMs. New curves and parameters can be created and these can be much more powerful than existing AMM options. Osmosis parameter options and dynamic market fees mean Osmosis will be able to adapt to changing conditions and market needs. Beyond the technical features Osmosis has specialized governance and incentive alignments. Osmosis will require regular participation from engaged and highly active OSMO holders, this will include things like determining the distribution of liquidity mining incentives weekly, changing AMM parameters and spending of the community pool to improve or grow the project.

OSMO is a governance token and staking token but Osmosis intends to transition into a Cosmos Hub shared security zone when the feature is available. The OSMO token will be fairly launched and distributed to network participants, there will be no pre-sale. Keeping with the experimentation OSMO is using a quadratic "fairdrop" which is intended to decrease the chances of governance inequality. Osmosis is still under development targeting a summer launch.

Sommelier Finance - $SOMM - https://sommelier.finance/

Automated Yield Aggregator that has impermanent loss protection, portfolio re-balancing and low fees.

Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use the Sommelier to author and execute complex, and automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, batched orders, as well as a host of other features that traders have come to expect from CeFi, but that are not currently available in DeFi.

Sommelier has Impermanent Loss Protection by automatically rebalancing your portfolio when pool performance changes in a way that impermanent and unrealized losses require a change in strategy The balancing feature focuses on high yield LP opportunities and exits lower yielding opportunities. Aggregating and batching transactions with Sommelier will yield lower gas prices for LP growing demand to manage pool position and performance. Native transaction batching and roll-ups deliver greater liquidity momentum to capture onchain yield on the Ethereum blockchain.

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

How do different BTC market trends tend to affect % yield?

Hello, I have a question regarding the changes in yield.

Which types of market events (theoretically) tend to move the yield % up or down?

For example, if Bitcoin experiences a bull market, would that be more likely to apply positive or negative pressure to the BlockFi yield %?

Obviously correlations aren't guaranteed, but I'm looking for general guidelines.

Thanks a bunch!