Polychain
Polychain is an investment firm committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
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Arbitrum
Next generation layer 2 for Ethereum dApps. Use your favorite tools and scale your dApp at the lowest cost. Arbitrum is a suite of Ethereum scaling solutions that enables high-throughput, low cost smart contracts while remaining trustlessly secure
Cozy
Cozy Finance is a DeFi platform offering protection products for users and liquidity providers against various risks in the cryptocurrency market. It allows participants to either provide or purchase protection, aiming to mitigate the impacts of adverse market events or smart contract vulnerabilities. Cozy Finance uses smart contracts to create a more secure and efficient environment for managing risk in DeFi investments.
Credora
Credora is a network powering provably private computations of risk information from permissioned data sources across CeFi and DeFi. The network ensures that reliable credit information is available for applications and credit providers, using scalable and secure infrastructure.
DELV
DELV is building the complete suite of decentralized finance. From core infrastructure to structured products, our protocols work together to help create and usher in the new financial system.
Fleek
Fleek makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers.
Liquity
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
Offchain Labs
Offchain Labs are the developers of the Arbitrum technology. They are also the developers of Arbitrum Orbit, Stylus, BOLD, and Arbitrum Nitro. In October 2022, Offchain Labs acquired Prysmatic Labs, makers of Prysm.
Perennial
Perennial is built from first-principles to be a powerful, flexible, and composable primitive that can scale to meet the needs of DeFi traders, liquidity providers, and developers.
Uniswap
Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol (DEX). It allows people to set up or contribute to liquidity pools consisting of various ERC-20 token pairs, or to use the available liquidity to swap their tokens against another using its Automated Market Maker (AMM) mechanism. ### Why AMMS are one of the building blocks in the crypto space as they always provide users with a price between two assets. Uniswap uses a simple X * Y = K, formula to price assets where x is the amount of one token in the liquidity pool, and y is the amount of the other. k is a fixed constant, meaning the pool’s total liquidity is always the same. ### Risk There are various risks involved with using AMMS. These include but are not limited to: Protocol Risk - risk due to mechanics in the design of a protocol. Even when the protocol functions as intended there might be risks e.g. high slippage incurred in trades due to the liquidity curve set-up Smart contract risk - This is risk from an error in the code causing the contract to operate in ways unexpected by the developers. It might leave the code vulnerable to exploits or other attacks Cybersecurity risk - Hackers, Exploiters or other malicious actors trying to attack Uniswap ### Reward Uniswap is arguably one of the largest AMMs in crypto and is usually the protocol where tokens find the most liquidity. Its UI/UX is extremely simple and users can trade most tokens with little problems.