The document introduces the Compound protocol, which establishes decentralized money markets for cryptocurrency assets. It allows users to supply assets to earn interest and borrow assets using supplied assets as collateral. Interest rates are algorithmically determined based on supply and demand. The protocol improves on centralized exchanges and peer-to-peer lending by offering liquidity, allowing assets to be borrowed and used instantly without negotiation, and mitigating default risk through liquidation of collateral assets when borrowing limits are exceeded.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a new way of raising funds for projects running on blockchain technology. Similar to the role venture capital (VC) plays in financing start-ups in traditional finance, ICOs are the future of venture investing in the blockchain world. Through ICOs, exponential returns can be earned in a very short period of time. When a decentralised application is created, the start-up behind it can sell the associated coin or token early in the process for an amount based on what it thinks it’s worth.
Initially billed as a medium of exchange by its founder- Saitoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin has risen exponentially in value- from a low of $0.17 in December 2010 to a historic high of $19,498.63 in December 2017- a rise of 11.47 million % (not a typo) in 7 years. Due to this very high valuation, bitcoin has lost any functionality as a medium of exchange (to replace or rival fiat currency) and is increasingly being viewed instead as a store of value. It has earned the title- ‘digital gold’.
It is almost impossible to believe that Blockchain Technology or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has been around for ten years now. However, one key blockchain property that has transformative promise within the context of the public sector is the irreversibility or tamper-proof property. Once transactions or records are validated and entered into the blockchain database, they remain permanently inscribed and cannot be altered thereafter.
Felix Sowerbutts asks why a buyer would choose to obtain finance for the purchase of a superyacht, and examines the evolving status of this multi-faceted and fast-paced sector, its availability and the typical terms being offered.
Basics covering Why, What and How of structured finance. Also includes possibility of blockchain and data science use cases. The talk was delivered by Prajeesh Jayaram to students of IIT Kanpur and other colleges on 12th February 2022.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a new way of raising funds for projects running on blockchain technology. Similar to the role venture capital (VC) plays in financing start-ups in traditional finance, ICOs are the future of venture investing in the blockchain world. Through ICOs, exponential returns can be earned in a very short period of time. When a decentralised application is created, the start-up behind it can sell the associated coin or token early in the process for an amount based on what it thinks it’s worth.
Initially billed as a medium of exchange by its founder- Saitoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin has risen exponentially in value- from a low of $0.17 in December 2010 to a historic high of $19,498.63 in December 2017- a rise of 11.47 million % (not a typo) in 7 years. Due to this very high valuation, bitcoin has lost any functionality as a medium of exchange (to replace or rival fiat currency) and is increasingly being viewed instead as a store of value. It has earned the title- ‘digital gold’.
It is almost impossible to believe that Blockchain Technology or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has been around for ten years now. However, one key blockchain property that has transformative promise within the context of the public sector is the irreversibility or tamper-proof property. Once transactions or records are validated and entered into the blockchain database, they remain permanently inscribed and cannot be altered thereafter.
Felix Sowerbutts asks why a buyer would choose to obtain finance for the purchase of a superyacht, and examines the evolving status of this multi-faceted and fast-paced sector, its availability and the typical terms being offered.
Basics covering Why, What and How of structured finance. Also includes possibility of blockchain and data science use cases. The talk was delivered by Prajeesh Jayaram to students of IIT Kanpur and other colleges on 12th February 2022.
Blockchain is already disrupting several industries, with opportunities for radical improvement of existing business models. But still banks and financial institutions are the ones likely to realize the highest benefits of adopting Blockchain.
As trade finance is getting a lot of attention, we will see here how in a single letter of credit transaction Blockchain can introduce significant improvements to a lot of banking activities in addition to trade finance:
• Trade finance
• KYC and AML
• Regulatory compliance
• Syndicated lending
• Payment settlement
• And Nostro Reconciliation
Brugu – Being a Leading DeFi Development Company in India, We offer end-to-end Decentralized Finance Development Services on DeFi Insurance, DeFi Lending and Borrowing, DeFi Yield Farming, DeFi Decentralized Exchange, DeFi Wallet, DeFi Smart Contract Development, DeFi Staking, DeFi DApp Development, DeFi Tokens Development, and many DeFi custom services.
Round 2 - The Future of Digital Currency - Bhupinder DulkuBhupinder Dulku
Bhupinder Dulku's Round 2 submission of Project Firefly & Credit Suisse Research Institute's Academy Challenge 2018. This paper placed Top 4 (Chairman's Circle) against 150 participants from 20 different countries.
The global bond market is in a stage where returns are muted and any efficiency will be a huge plus. While regulatory costs, transaction costs and issuance costs eat away a part of the meagre returns, continuous credit risk monitoring and lack of liquidity have been major concerns. The presentation looks at the nature of processes involved in the issuance and trading of bonds and identifies the pain points of the market participants. Then it discusses how we may come up with a solution for solving the bond market’s pain points by maintaining the market on an ecosystem of blockchains. A possible blockchain design for the market is described and the roles that the participants may play in the new ecosystem is elaborated. Blockchain’s inherent services help in
(1) Streamlining the issuance where all participants work in real time on common datasets and
(2) Trading of bonds by eliminating duplicative steps & shrinking the settlement cycle
The reduction in issuance time and settlement time, in turn, reduces market participant’s costs, risks and capital locked up. This solution design may have other positive side effects like improving liquidity, more transparency and easier asset servicing. The presentation concludes by looking at the evolving landscape and strategies that market players may adopt to stay in the forefront.
Blockchain in Banking: A Measured ApproachCognizant
Here's our foundational view on what the financial services industry needs to consider as organizations move from ideation to experimentation to pilot deployments of blockchain.
Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) is a guarantee of payment issued by the importer’s bank, in favor of the exporter, for an amount agreed at the signing of the commercial contract. It provides a guarantee to the exporter that, if due to any circumstances, the importer is unable to pay, then the bank will make the payment.
Below is a Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) Factsheet You Need To Know!
https://grandcityinvestment.com/standby-letter-of-credit-factsheet/
Email: apply@grandcityinvestment.com
Website: https://grandcityinvestment.com
This instrument is designed to replicate the performance of the 10 leading Digital Assets on the ethereum blockchain, also called ERC20 token. The index represents token from both centralised exchanges and Decentralised Finance (DeFi).
How Cryptocurrency is affecting the Indian economyOliviaJune1
Conclusion
So this was all about the effects of Cryptocurrency in India. If anyone is interested in learning blockchain, then they can go for a blockchain course online. Blockchain technology training will also help in getting upcoming job opportunities regarding Cryptocurrency.
DeFi's dependency on the U.S. banking systemTim Swanson
First presented on June 22, 2021 at SORA Economic Forum. Discusses collateral-backed "stablecoins" that rely on the U.S. financial system. See also Daistats.com for up-to-date charts.
DAO Maker is building the go-to platform for retail venture investing in equity and tokens.
Providing low-risk participation frameworks is essential to reach global retail in venture capital, as most retail investors cannot afford to risk large portions of their money. By providing an opportunity to everyday people to safely grow their own capital, we aim to improve the quality of millions of lives while simultaneously enabling a new funding source to innovation worldwide.
Over the past 2 years, DAO Maker has grown one of the largest ecosystems of quality retail investors; in just 2020, our platform has signed on more than 75,000 retail users interested in early-stage ventures. At the same time, we have been building a suite of services to attract high-quality startups to join the ecosystem and be accelerated in a decentralized, safe, and autonomous environment. Some of the industry’s most notable developments currently use the technology solutions provided within our startup growth toolkit. To date, the demand for the products has well exceeded our ability to manage onboarding flow, which is why we are currently working on permissionless, self-managed versions of our technology products.
DAO Maker’s track record has defied market cycles. We have worked with projects to design solutions to raise capital in bear markets, supported enterprise blockchains to generate new product portfolios for growth, and created technology solutions that expand community empowerment in tokenized developments. Our consulting and technology services’ revenue has been funneled to our primary goal: creating a globally compliant fundraising platform for both crowd equity and tokens.
Our approach to a fundraising platform is distinct from other platforms that target venture funding. We don’t just connect retail venture funds to startups in need of capital.
Instead, we create a platform that incorporates pluggable solutions to the problems early-stage ventures face after fundraising, alongside creating venture investment structures that make participation far safer for retail.
DAO Maker is on track to change the way personal finance works by breaking its boundaries. While retail or household portfolios have made record participation into the equity market, encouraged by a global desire for individuals to seek financial independence by putting their money to work, retail involvement in venture funding is bleak.
Retail makes up less than 1% of the annual $300B venture capital market, even though early-stage investments are the leading wealth generator, as growth prospects are becoming increasingly limited by the time new companies listed on the market.
A two-tier model for CBDC would empower public-private partnerships and enable Digital Cash to be designed by central banks but distributed by commercial FI’s. Digital currencies, denominated in the domestic unit of account, would be privately issued and managed, although fully backed with central bank reserves and monitored centrally.
Decentralized Finance On Blockchain and Smart Contract Based Financial MarketsYogeshIJTSRD
The term decentralized finance DeFi refers to an alternative financial infrastructure built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. DeFi uses smart contracts to create protocols that replicate existing financial services in a more open, interoperable, and transparent way. This paper highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem. I propose a multi layered framework to analyze the implicit architecture and the various DeFi building blocks, including token standards, decentralized exchanges, decentralized debt markets, blockchain derivatives, and on chain asset management protocols. I conclude that DeFi still is a niche market with certain risks but that it also has interesting properties in terms of efficiency, transparency, accessibility, and compos ability. As such, DeFi may potentially contribute to a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure. Jagjeet Jena | Harsh Singh Chauhan "Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Technology - 2021 , May 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd42463.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/42463/decentralized-finance-on-blockchain-and-smart-contractbased-financial-markets/jagjeet-jena
BTCS Inc is engaged in the business of hosting an online e-commerce marketplace where consumers can purchase merchandise using Digital Assets, including bitcoin. The company focuses on blockchain and Digital Asset ecosystems. The firm operates a beta e-commerce marketplace, which accepts a range of digital currencies, has designed a beta secure digital currency storage solution BTCS Wallet.
Central banks have a mandate for monetary and financial stability in their jurisdictions and, explicitly or
implicitly, to promote broad access to safe and efficient payments. A core instrument by which central
banks carry out their public policy objectives is providing the safest form of money to banks, businesses
and the public – central bank money.
In this white paper we introduce a new decentralized, non-custodial and open-source protocol that will provide an autonomous interest rate market to lenders and borrowers while setting interest rates based on credit supply and demand, enabling users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of their crypto assets at both variable and fixed interest rates for the first time in DeFi.
Aside from taking loans and making deposits at variable interest rates from a Variable Rate Pool, this protocol enables users to do so at fixed rates as well through the interaction with several Fixed Rate Pools, each one representing a specific maturity date. Interest rates are determined based on the credit utilization rate of each Fixed Rate Pool.
Just a short writeup on my thoughts about how blockchain technology is going to have impact on lending/credit domain in medium to long term.
Kindly email me -vinkar.shan@gmail.com or Call on +91-7032409664 for any queries.
Distributed Ledger Technologies for International Banking - EternicEternic
In this report, we present an overview of various contemporary distributed ledger technologies (DLT) that have the potential to provide the foundation of an international banking platform and analyses of their respective applicability to the cross-border payments problem space.
Since the release of Bitcoin in 2009, there has been a constant stream of speculation over the potential for the underlying distributed ledger technology and principles to revolutionize financial market infrastructures. A decade later, and despite the talent and focus poured in, such a revolution has yet to materialize. However, blockchain technology has greatly matured in the meantime, and while many "Classical" blockchains are found wanting, considerably disjointed from the needs of international banking, some other variants show more promise. Read the report to learn more.
Blockchain is already disrupting several industries, with opportunities for radical improvement of existing business models. But still banks and financial institutions are the ones likely to realize the highest benefits of adopting Blockchain.
As trade finance is getting a lot of attention, we will see here how in a single letter of credit transaction Blockchain can introduce significant improvements to a lot of banking activities in addition to trade finance:
• Trade finance
• KYC and AML
• Regulatory compliance
• Syndicated lending
• Payment settlement
• And Nostro Reconciliation
Brugu – Being a Leading DeFi Development Company in India, We offer end-to-end Decentralized Finance Development Services on DeFi Insurance, DeFi Lending and Borrowing, DeFi Yield Farming, DeFi Decentralized Exchange, DeFi Wallet, DeFi Smart Contract Development, DeFi Staking, DeFi DApp Development, DeFi Tokens Development, and many DeFi custom services.
Round 2 - The Future of Digital Currency - Bhupinder DulkuBhupinder Dulku
Bhupinder Dulku's Round 2 submission of Project Firefly & Credit Suisse Research Institute's Academy Challenge 2018. This paper placed Top 4 (Chairman's Circle) against 150 participants from 20 different countries.
The global bond market is in a stage where returns are muted and any efficiency will be a huge plus. While regulatory costs, transaction costs and issuance costs eat away a part of the meagre returns, continuous credit risk monitoring and lack of liquidity have been major concerns. The presentation looks at the nature of processes involved in the issuance and trading of bonds and identifies the pain points of the market participants. Then it discusses how we may come up with a solution for solving the bond market’s pain points by maintaining the market on an ecosystem of blockchains. A possible blockchain design for the market is described and the roles that the participants may play in the new ecosystem is elaborated. Blockchain’s inherent services help in
(1) Streamlining the issuance where all participants work in real time on common datasets and
(2) Trading of bonds by eliminating duplicative steps & shrinking the settlement cycle
The reduction in issuance time and settlement time, in turn, reduces market participant’s costs, risks and capital locked up. This solution design may have other positive side effects like improving liquidity, more transparency and easier asset servicing. The presentation concludes by looking at the evolving landscape and strategies that market players may adopt to stay in the forefront.
Blockchain in Banking: A Measured ApproachCognizant
Here's our foundational view on what the financial services industry needs to consider as organizations move from ideation to experimentation to pilot deployments of blockchain.
Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) is a guarantee of payment issued by the importer’s bank, in favor of the exporter, for an amount agreed at the signing of the commercial contract. It provides a guarantee to the exporter that, if due to any circumstances, the importer is unable to pay, then the bank will make the payment.
Below is a Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) Factsheet You Need To Know!
https://grandcityinvestment.com/standby-letter-of-credit-factsheet/
Email: apply@grandcityinvestment.com
Website: https://grandcityinvestment.com
This instrument is designed to replicate the performance of the 10 leading Digital Assets on the ethereum blockchain, also called ERC20 token. The index represents token from both centralised exchanges and Decentralised Finance (DeFi).
How Cryptocurrency is affecting the Indian economyOliviaJune1
Conclusion
So this was all about the effects of Cryptocurrency in India. If anyone is interested in learning blockchain, then they can go for a blockchain course online. Blockchain technology training will also help in getting upcoming job opportunities regarding Cryptocurrency.
DeFi's dependency on the U.S. banking systemTim Swanson
First presented on June 22, 2021 at SORA Economic Forum. Discusses collateral-backed "stablecoins" that rely on the U.S. financial system. See also Daistats.com for up-to-date charts.
DAO Maker is building the go-to platform for retail venture investing in equity and tokens.
Providing low-risk participation frameworks is essential to reach global retail in venture capital, as most retail investors cannot afford to risk large portions of their money. By providing an opportunity to everyday people to safely grow their own capital, we aim to improve the quality of millions of lives while simultaneously enabling a new funding source to innovation worldwide.
Over the past 2 years, DAO Maker has grown one of the largest ecosystems of quality retail investors; in just 2020, our platform has signed on more than 75,000 retail users interested in early-stage ventures. At the same time, we have been building a suite of services to attract high-quality startups to join the ecosystem and be accelerated in a decentralized, safe, and autonomous environment. Some of the industry’s most notable developments currently use the technology solutions provided within our startup growth toolkit. To date, the demand for the products has well exceeded our ability to manage onboarding flow, which is why we are currently working on permissionless, self-managed versions of our technology products.
DAO Maker’s track record has defied market cycles. We have worked with projects to design solutions to raise capital in bear markets, supported enterprise blockchains to generate new product portfolios for growth, and created technology solutions that expand community empowerment in tokenized developments. Our consulting and technology services’ revenue has been funneled to our primary goal: creating a globally compliant fundraising platform for both crowd equity and tokens.
Our approach to a fundraising platform is distinct from other platforms that target venture funding. We don’t just connect retail venture funds to startups in need of capital.
Instead, we create a platform that incorporates pluggable solutions to the problems early-stage ventures face after fundraising, alongside creating venture investment structures that make participation far safer for retail.
DAO Maker is on track to change the way personal finance works by breaking its boundaries. While retail or household portfolios have made record participation into the equity market, encouraged by a global desire for individuals to seek financial independence by putting their money to work, retail involvement in venture funding is bleak.
Retail makes up less than 1% of the annual $300B venture capital market, even though early-stage investments are the leading wealth generator, as growth prospects are becoming increasingly limited by the time new companies listed on the market.
A two-tier model for CBDC would empower public-private partnerships and enable Digital Cash to be designed by central banks but distributed by commercial FI’s. Digital currencies, denominated in the domestic unit of account, would be privately issued and managed, although fully backed with central bank reserves and monitored centrally.
Decentralized Finance On Blockchain and Smart Contract Based Financial MarketsYogeshIJTSRD
The term decentralized finance DeFi refers to an alternative financial infrastructure built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. DeFi uses smart contracts to create protocols that replicate existing financial services in a more open, interoperable, and transparent way. This paper highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem. I propose a multi layered framework to analyze the implicit architecture and the various DeFi building blocks, including token standards, decentralized exchanges, decentralized debt markets, blockchain derivatives, and on chain asset management protocols. I conclude that DeFi still is a niche market with certain risks but that it also has interesting properties in terms of efficiency, transparency, accessibility, and compos ability. As such, DeFi may potentially contribute to a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure. Jagjeet Jena | Harsh Singh Chauhan "Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Technology - 2021 , May 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd42463.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/42463/decentralized-finance-on-blockchain-and-smart-contractbased-financial-markets/jagjeet-jena
BTCS Inc is engaged in the business of hosting an online e-commerce marketplace where consumers can purchase merchandise using Digital Assets, including bitcoin. The company focuses on blockchain and Digital Asset ecosystems. The firm operates a beta e-commerce marketplace, which accepts a range of digital currencies, has designed a beta secure digital currency storage solution BTCS Wallet.
Central banks have a mandate for monetary and financial stability in their jurisdictions and, explicitly or
implicitly, to promote broad access to safe and efficient payments. A core instrument by which central
banks carry out their public policy objectives is providing the safest form of money to banks, businesses
and the public – central bank money.
In this white paper we introduce a new decentralized, non-custodial and open-source protocol that will provide an autonomous interest rate market to lenders and borrowers while setting interest rates based on credit supply and demand, enabling users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of their crypto assets at both variable and fixed interest rates for the first time in DeFi.
Aside from taking loans and making deposits at variable interest rates from a Variable Rate Pool, this protocol enables users to do so at fixed rates as well through the interaction with several Fixed Rate Pools, each one representing a specific maturity date. Interest rates are determined based on the credit utilization rate of each Fixed Rate Pool.
Just a short writeup on my thoughts about how blockchain technology is going to have impact on lending/credit domain in medium to long term.
Kindly email me -vinkar.shan@gmail.com or Call on +91-7032409664 for any queries.
Distributed Ledger Technologies for International Banking - EternicEternic
In this report, we present an overview of various contemporary distributed ledger technologies (DLT) that have the potential to provide the foundation of an international banking platform and analyses of their respective applicability to the cross-border payments problem space.
Since the release of Bitcoin in 2009, there has been a constant stream of speculation over the potential for the underlying distributed ledger technology and principles to revolutionize financial market infrastructures. A decade later, and despite the talent and focus poured in, such a revolution has yet to materialize. However, blockchain technology has greatly matured in the meantime, and while many "Classical" blockchains are found wanting, considerably disjointed from the needs of international banking, some other variants show more promise. Read the report to learn more.
Distributed Ledger Technologies for International BankingEternic
In this report, we present an overview of various contemporary distributed ledger technologies (DLT) that have the potential to provide the foundation of an international banking platform and analyses of their respective applicability to the cross-border payments problem space.
Since the release of Bitcoin in 2009, there has been a constant stream of speculation over the potential for the underlying distributed ledger technology and principles to revolutionize financial market infrastructures. A decade later, and despite the talent and focus poured in, such a revolution has yet to materialize. However, blockchain technology has greatly matured in the meantime, and while many "Classical" blockchains are found wanting, considerably disjointed from the needs of international banking, some other variants show more promise. Read the report to learn more.
DIGITAL STOCKS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY THE POSSIBLE FUTURE OF STOCKS?IAEME Publication
Bitcoin is the first and most successful digital currency in the world. It trends in
the news almost daily, with glowing reviews of the many benefits of an alternative and
international currency. This paper explains the innovative aspect of the technological
platform used to transfer Bitcoin from one party to another. This technology is called
the Blockchain. The Blockchain eschews a bank or other intermediary and allows
parties to transfer funds directly to one another, using a peer-to-peer system. This
disruptive technology has done for money transfers what email did for sending mail —
by removing the need for a trusted third party just as email removed the need for using
the post office to send mail. This technology mainly used for peer-to-peer money
transfers, can also be extended to accomplish other forms of transfers. Blockchain
technology can be used to buy and sell stocks. Real world stocks can be tokenized into
digital stocks which can be easily transferred using peer-to-peer. These digital stocks
act similar to digital currency whose price is real time and fluctuates. Stocks
exchanged completely peer-to-peer could resolve many of the issues facing the stock
market today, including high frequency trading and short sales.
Distributed Ledgers: Possibilities and Challenges in Capital Markets Applicat...Cognizant
Distributed ledgers - blockchain technology - stands to make numerous financial services activities more secure, autonomous, and efficient. Here's a walk-through of a range of potential use cases: IPO issuance, trade agreements and settlements, confirmations, etc. and a strategy for transition.
A Study of Tokenization of Real Estate Using Blockchain Technologyvivatechijri
Real estate is by far one of the most trusted investments that people have preferred, being a lucrative investment it provides a steady source of income in the form of lease and rents. Although there are numerous advantages, one of the key downsides of real estate investments is lack of liquidity. Thus, even though global real estate investments amount to about twice the size of investments in stock markets, the number of investors in the real estate market is significantly lower. Block chain technology has real potential in addressing the issues of liquidity and transparency, opening the market to even retail investors. Owing to the functionality and flexibility of creating Security Tokens, which are backed by real-world assets, real estate can be made liquid with the help of Special Purpose Vehicles. Tokens of ERC 777 standard, which represent fractional ownership of the real estate can be purchased by an investor and these tokens can also be listed on secondary exchanges. The robustness of Smart Contracts can enable the efficient transfer of tokens and seamless distribution of earnings amongst the investors. This work describes Ethereum blockchainbased solutions to make the existing Real Estate investment system much more efficient.
Alternative Finance Briefing Paper - Simon Deane-Johns 27 01 12Simon Deane-Johns
Submitted on 27 January 2012 to the UK Government's Red Tape Challenge on Disruptive Business Models (http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/themehome/disruptive-business-model/) and the Taskforce on Non-bank Finance (http://www.bis.gov.uk/businessfinance). Related posts are here: http://sdj-thefineprint.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/submission-on-new-model-for-retail.html
Emerging Technologies : The Jeeranont thejeeranont
The digital economy presents opportunities for growth that are simple to employ with an agile, open source platform. Discover the prospects that The Jeeranont includes among our strategic initiatives.
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Deconstructing Decentralized Exchanges
by Lindsay X. Lin, Legal Counsel at Interstellar and Stellar Development Foundation
The goal of this Essay is to explain the architectural structure of decentralized exchanges, and the performance and security tradeoffs associated with various architectural choices.
Real estate is by far one of the most trusted investments that people have preferred, being a lucrative investment it provides a steady source of income in the form of lease and rents. Although there are numerous advantages, one of the key downsides of real estate investments is lack of liquidity. Thus, even though global real estate investments amount to about twice the size of investments in stock markets, the number of investors in the real estate market is significantly lower. Block chain technology has real potential in addressing the issues of liquidity and transparency, opening the market to even retail investors. Owing to the functionality and flexibility of creating Security Tokens, which are backed by real-world assets, real estate can be made liquid with the help of Special Purpose Vehicles. Tokens of ERC 777 standard, which represent fractional ownership of the real estate can be purchased by an investor and these tokens can also be listed on secondary exchanges. The robustness of Smart Contracts can enable the efficient transfer of tokens and seamless distribution of earnings amongst the investors. This work describes Ethereum blockchainbased solutions to make the existing Real Estate investment system much more efficient.
Falcon stands out as a top-tier P2P Invoice Discounting platform in India, bridging esteemed blue-chip companies and eager investors. Our goal is to transform the investment landscape in India by establishing a comprehensive destination for borrowers and investors with diverse profiles and needs, all while minimizing risk. What sets Falcon apart is the elimination of intermediaries such as commercial banks and depository institutions, allowing investors to enjoy higher yields.
Attending a job Interview for B1 and B2 Englsih learnersErika906060
It is a sample of an interview for a business english class for pre-intermediate and intermediate english students with emphasis on the speking ability.
Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
This 60-minute webinar, sponsored by Adobe, was delivered for the Training Mag Network. It explored the five elements of SPARK: Storytelling, Purpose, Action, Relationships, and Kudos. Knowing how to tell a well-structured story is key to building long-term memory. Stating a clear purpose that doesn't take away from the discovery learning process is critical. Ensuring that people move from theory to practical application is imperative. Creating strong social learning is the key to commitment and engagement. Validating and affirming participants' comments is the way to create a positive learning environment.
RMD24 | Debunking the non-endemic revenue myth Marvin Vacquier Droop | First ...BBPMedia1
Marvin neemt je in deze presentatie mee in de voordelen van non-endemic advertising op retail media netwerken. Hij brengt ook de uitdagingen in beeld die de markt op dit moment heeft op het gebied van retail media voor niet-leveranciers.
Retail media wordt gezien als het nieuwe advertising-medium en ook mediabureaus richten massaal retail media-afdelingen op. Merken die niet in de betreffende winkel liggen staan ook nog niet in de rij om op de retail media netwerken te adverteren. Marvin belicht de uitdagingen die er zijn om echt aansluiting te vinden op die markt van non-endemic advertising.
The world of search engine optimization (SEO) is buzzing with discussions after Google confirmed that around 2,500 leaked internal documents related to its Search feature are indeed authentic. The revelation has sparked significant concerns within the SEO community. The leaked documents were initially reported by SEO experts Rand Fishkin and Mike King, igniting widespread analysis and discourse. For More Info:- https://news.arihantwebtech.com/search-disrupted-googles-leaked-documents-rock-the-seo-world/
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Compound:
The Money Market Protocol
Version 1.0
February 2019
Authors
Robert Leshner, Geoffrey Hayes
https://compound.finance
Abstract
In this paper we introduce a decentralized protocol which establishes money markets with
algorithmically set interest rates based on supply and demand, allowing users to frictionlessly
exchange the time value of Ethereum assets.
Contents
1 Introduction 2
2 The Compound Protocol 2
2.1 Supplying Assets 3
2.1.1 Primary Use Cases 3
2.2 Borrowing Assets 3
2.2.1 Collateral Value 3
2.2.2 Risk & Liquidation 4
2.2.3 Primary Use Cases 4
2.3 Interest Rate Model 4
2.3.1 Liquidity Incentive Structure 5
3 Implementation & Architecture 5
3.1 cToken Contracts 5
3.2 Interest Rate Mechanics 6
3.2.1 Market Dynamics 6
3.2.2 Borrower Dynamics 7
3.3 Borrowing 7
3.4 Liquidation 7
3.5 Price Feeds 7
3.6 Comptroller 7
3.7 Governance 8
4 Summary 8
References 8
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1 Introduction
The market for cryptocurrencies and digital blockchain assets has developed into a vibrant
ecosystem of investors, speculators, and traders, exchanging thousands [1] of blockchain assets.
Unfortunately, the sophistication of financial markets hasn’t followed: participants have little
capability of trading the time value of assets.
Interest rates fill the gap between people with surplus assets they can’t use, and people without
assets (that have a productive or investment use); trading the time value of assets benefits both
parties, and creates non-zero-sum wealth. For blockchain assets, two major flaws exist today:
● Borrowing mechanisms are extremely limited, which contributes to mispriced assets (e.g.
“scamcoins” with unfathomable valuations, because there’s no way to short them).
● Blockchain assets have negative yield, resulting from significant storage costs and risks (both
on-exchange and off-exchange), without natural interest rates to offset those costs. This
contributes to volatility, as holding is disincentivized.
Centralized exchanges (including Bitfinex, Poloniex...) allow customers to trade blockchain assets
on margin, with “borrowing markets” built into the exchange. These are trust-based systems (you
have to trust that the exchange won’t get hacked, abscond with your assets, or incorrectly close out
your position), are limited to certain customer groups, and limited to a small number of (the most
mainstream) assets. Finally, balances and positions are virtual; you can’t move a position on-chain,
for example to use borrowed Ether or tokens in a smart contract or ICO, making these facilities
inaccessible to dApps [2].
Peer to peer protocols facilitate collateralized and uncollateralized loans between market
participants directly. Unfortunately, decentralization forces significant costs and frictions onto
users; in every protocol reviewed, lenders are required to post, manage, and (in the event of
collateralized loans) supervise loan offers and active loans, and loan fulfillment is often slow &
asynchronous (loans have to be funded, which takes time) [3-6].
In this paper, we introduce a decentralized system for the frictionless borrowing of Ethereum
tokens without the flaws of existing approaches, enabling proper money markets to function, and
creating a safe positive-yield approach to storing assets.
2 The Compound Protocol
Compound is a protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that establishes money markets, which are
pools of assets with algorithmically derived interest rates, based on the supply and demand for the
asset. Suppliers (and borrowers) of an asset interact directly with the protocol, earning (and paying)
a floating interest rate, without having to negotiate terms such as maturity, interest rate, or
collateral with a peer or counterparty.
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Each money market is unique to an Ethereum asset (such as Ether, an ERC-20 stablecoin such as
Dai, or an ERC-20 utility token such as Augur), and contains a transparent and publicly-inspectable
ledger, with a record of all transactions and historical interest rates.
2.1 Supplying Assets
Unlike an exchange or peer-to-peer platform, where a user’s assets are matched and lent to another
user, the Compound protocol aggregates the supply of each user; when a user supplies an asset, it
becomes a fungible resource. This approach offers significantly more liquidity than direct lending;
unless every asset in a market is borrowed (see below: the protocol incentivizes liquidity), users can
withdraw their assets at any time, without waiting for a specific loan to mature.
Assets supplied to a market are represented by an ERC-20 token balance (“cToken”), which entitles
the owner to an increasing quantity of the underlying asset. As the money market accrues interest,
which is a function of borrowing demand, cTokens become convertible into an increasing amount
of the underlying asset. In this way, earning interest is as simple as holding a ERC-20 cToken.
2.1.1 Primary Use Cases
Individuals with long-term investments in Ether and tokens (“HODLers”) can use a Compound
money market as a source of additional returns on their investment. For example, a user that owns
Augur can supply their tokens to the Compound protocol, and earn interest (denominated in
Augur) without having to manage their asset, fulfill loan requests or take speculative risks.
dApps, machines, and exchanges with token balances can use the Compound protocol as a source of
monetization and incremental returns by “sweeping” balances; this has the potential to unlock
entirely new business models for the Ethereum ecosystem.
2.2 Borrowing Assets
Compound allows users to frictionlessly borrow from the protocol, using cTokens as collateral, for
use anywhere in the Ethereum ecosystem. Unlike peer-to-peer protocols, borrowing from
Compound simply requires a user to specify a desired asset; there are no terms to negotiate,
maturity dates, or funding periods; borrowing is instant and predictable. Similar to supplying an
asset, each money market has a floating interest rate, set by market forces, which determines the
borrowing cost for each asset.
2.2.1 Collateral Value
Assets held by the protocol (represented by ownership of a cToken) are used as collateral to borrow
from the protocol. Each market has a collateral factor, ranging from 0 to 1, that represents the
portion of the underlying asset value that can be borrowed. Illiquid, small-cap assets have low
collateral factors; they do not make good collateral, while liquid, high-cap assets have high collateral
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factors. The sum of the value of an accounts underlying token balances, multiplied by the collateral
factors, equals a user’s borrowing capacity.
Users are able to borrow up to, but not exceeding, their borrowing capacity, and an account can
take no action (e.g. borrow, transfer cToken collateral, or redeem cToken collateral) that would
raise the total value of borrowed assets above their borrowing capacity; this protects the protocol
from default risk.
2.2.2 Risk & Liquidation
If the value of an account’s borrowing outstanding exceeds their borrowing capacity, a portion of
the outstanding borrowing may be repaid in exchange for the user’s cToken collateral, at the
current market price minus a liquidation discount; this incentives an ecosystem of arbitrageurs to
quickly step in to reduce the borrower’s exposure, and eliminate the protocol’s risk.
The proportion eligible to be closed, a close factor, is the portion of the borrowed asset that can be
repaid, and ranges from 0 to 1, such as 25%. The liquidation process may continue to be called until
the user’s borrowing is less than their borrowing capacity.
Any Ethereum address that possesses the borrowed asset may invoke the liquidation function,
exchanging their asset for the borrower’s cToken collateral. As both users, both assets, and prices
are all contained within the Compound protocol, liquidation is frictionless and does not rely on any
outside systems or order-books.
2.2.3 Primary Use Cases
The ability to seamlessly hold new assets (without selling or rearranging a portfolio) gives new
superpowers to dApp consumers, traders and developers:
● Without having to wait for an order to fill, or requiring off-chain behavior, dApps can
borrow tokens to use in the Ethereum ecosystem, such as to purchase computing power on
the Golem network
● Traders can finance new ICO investments by borrowing Ether, using their existing
portfolio as collateral
● Traders looking to short a token can borrow it, send it to an exchange and sell the token,
profiting from declines in overvalued tokens
2.3 Interest Rate Model
Rather than individual suppliers or borrowers having to negotiate over terms and rates, the
Compound protocol utilizes an interest rate model that achieves an interest rate equilibrium, in
each money market, based on supply and demand. Following economic theory, interest rates (the
“price” of money) should increase as a function of demand; when demand is low, interest rates
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should be low, and vise versa when demand is high. The utilization ratio U for each market a unifies
supply and demand into a single variable:
orrows (Cash orrows ) Ua = B a / a + B a
The demand curve is codified through governance and is expressed as a function of utilization. As
an example, borrowing interest rates may resemble the following:
orrowing Interest Rate 2.5% 0% B a = + Ua *2
The interest rate earned by suppliers is implicit, and is equal to the borrowing interest rate,
multiplied by the utilization rate.
2.3.1 Liquidity Incentive Structure
The protocol does not guarantee liquidity; instead, it relies on the interest rate model to incentivize
it. In periods of extreme demand for an asset, the liquidity of the protocol (the tokens available to
withdraw or borrow) will decline; when this occur, interest rates rise, incentivizing supply, and
disincentivizing borrowing.
3 Implementation & Architecture
At its core, a Compound money market is a ledger that allows Ethereum accounts to supply or
borrow assets, while computing interest, a function of time. The protocol’s smart contracts will be
publicly accessible and completely free to use for machines, dApps and humans.
3.1 cToken Contracts
Each money market is structured as a smart contract that implements the ERC-20 token
specification. User’s balances are represented as cToken balances; users can mint(uint
amountUnderlying) cTokens by supplying assets to the market, or redeem(uint amount) cTokens
for the underlying asset. The price (exchange rate) between cTokens and the underlying asset
increases over time, as interest is accrued by borrowers of the asset, and is equal to:
xchangeRate e = cTokenSupplya
underlyingBalance +totalBorrowBalance − reserves a a
As the market’s total borrowing balance increases (as a function of borrower interest accruing), the
exchange rate between cTokens and the underlying asset increases.
Function ABI Description
mint(uint256 amountUnderlying) Transfers an underlying asset into the market, updates
msg.sender’s cToken balance.
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redeem(uint256 amount)
redeemUnderlying(uint256
amountUnderlying)
Transfers an underlying asset out of the market, updates
msg.sender’s cToken balance.
borrow(uint amount) Checks msg.sender collateral value, and if sufficient,
transfers the underlying asset out of the market to
msg.sender, and updates msg.sender’s borrow balance.
repayBorrow(uint amount)
repayBorrowBehalf(address
account, uint amount)
Transfers the underlying asset into the market, updates
the borrower’s borrow balance.
liquidate(address borrower,
address collateralAsset, uint
closeAmount)
Transfers the underlying asset into the market, updates
the borrower’s borrow balance, then transfers cToken
collateral from the borrower to msg.sender
Table 2. ABI and summary of primary cToken smart contract functions
3.2 Interest Rate Mechanics
Compound money markets are defined by an interest rate, applied to all borrowers uniformly,
which adjust over time as the relationship between supply and demand changes.
The history of each interest rate, for each money market, is captured by an Interest Rate Index, which
is calculated each time an interest rate changes, resulting from a user minting, redeeming,
borrowing, repaying or liquidating the asset.
3.2.1 Market Dynamics
Each time a transaction occurs, the Interest Rate Index for the asset is updated to compound the
interest since the prior index, using the interest for the period, denominated by r * t, calculated
using a per-block interest rate:
ndex ndex 1 ) I a,n = I a,(n−1) *( + r *t
The market’s total borrowing outstanding is updated to include interest accrued since the last index:
otalBorrowBalance otalBorrowBalance 1 ) t a,n = t a,(n−1) *( + r *t
And a portion of the accrued interest is retained (set aside) as reserves, determined by a
reserveFactor, ranging from 0 to 1:
eserves eserves otalBorrowBalance r eserveFactor) r a = r a,(n−1) + t a,(n−1) *( *t *r
3.2.2 Borrower Dynamics
A borrower’s balance, including accrued interest, is simply the ratio of the current index divided by
the index when the user’s balance was last checkpointed.
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The balance for each borrower address in the cToken is stored as an account checkpoint. An account
checkpoint is a Solidity tuple <uint256 balance, uint256 interestIndex>. This tuple describes the balance
at the time interest was last applied to that account.
3.3 Borrowing
A user who wishes to borrow and who has sufficient balances stored in Compound may call
borrow(uint amount) on the relevant cToken contract. This function call checks the user’s account
value, and given sufficient collateral, will update the user’s borrow balance, transfer the tokens to
the user’s Ethereum address, and update the money market’s floating interest rate.
Borrows accrue interest in the exact same fashion as balance interest was calculated in section 3.2; a
borrower has the right to repay an outstanding loan at any time, by calling repayBorrow(uint
amount) which repays the outstanding balance.
3.4 Liquidation
If a user’s borrowing balance exceeds their total collateral value (borrowing capacity) due to the
value of collateral falling, or borrowed assets increasing in value, the public function
liquidate(address target, address collateralAsset, address borrowAsset, uint
closeAmount) can be called, which exchanges the invoking user’s asset for the borrower’s collateral,
at a slightly better than market price.
3.5 Price Feeds
A Price Oracle maintains the current exchange rate of each supported asset; the Compound protocol
delegates the ability to set the value of assets to a committee which pools prices from the top 10
exchanges. These exchange rates are used to determine borrowing capacity and collateral
requirements, and for all functions which require calculating the value equivalent of an account.
3.6 Comptroller
The Compound protocol does not support specific tokens by default; instead, markets must be
whitelisted. This is accomplished with an admin function, supportMarket(address market,
address interest rate model) that allows users to begin interacting with the asset. In order to
borrow an asset, there must be a valid price from the Price Oracle; in order to use an asset as
collateral, there must be a valid price and a collateralFactor.
Each function call is validated through a policy layer, referred to as the Comptroller; this contract
validates collateral and liquidity, before allowing a user action to proceed.
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3.7 Governance
Compound will begin with centralized control of the protocol (such as choosing the interest rate
model per asset), and over time, will transition to complete community and stakeholder control.
The following rights in the protocol are controlled by the admin:
● The ability to list a new cToken market
● The ability to update the interest rate model per market
● The ability to update the oracle address
● The ability to withdraw the reserve of a cToken
● The ability to choose a new admin, such as a DAO controlled by the community; because
this DAO can itself choose a new admin, the administration has the ability to evolve over
time, based on the decisions of the stakeholders
4 Summary
● Compound creates properly functioning money markets for Ethereum assets
● Each money market has interest rates that are determined by the supply and demand of the
underlying asset; when demand to borrow an asset grows, or when supply is removed,
interest rates increase, incentivizing additional liquidity
● Users can supply tokens to a money market to earn interest, without trusting a central party
● Users can borrow a token (to use, sell, or re-lend) by using their balances in the protocol as
collateral
References
[1] Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations. https://coinmarketcap.com/
[2] Bitfixex Margin Funding Guide. https://support.bitfinex.com/
[3] ETHLend White Paper. https://github.com/ETHLend
[4] Ripio White Paper. https://ripiocredit.network/
[5] Lendroid White Paper. https://lendroid.com/
[6] dYdX White Paper. https://whitepaper.dydx.exchange/
[7] Fred Ehrsam: The Decentralized Business Model. https://blog.coinbase.com/
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