DeFi

Testnets and mainnets play vital roles in the development and deployment of blockchain projects. Testnets provide developers with safe environments to experiment and improve their applications, while mainnets offer secure and operational platforms for real-world usage.

Introduction As a decentralized exchange deployed on Ethereum and ZkSync Era, Maverick Protocol is designed to provide efficient market-making strategies for LPs through pooling liquidity. It is innovative because it introduces a directional liquidity pooling that allows LPs to choose a liquidity movement mode based on expected asset prices. The smart contract will make liquidity move in this way in each transaction. Thus, the liquidity provided by LPs is kept in the active price range, allowing them to gain fee income. This method can improve capital efficiency and offset impermanent losses to the greatest extent. Currently, four mobility liquidity modes are supported, including Mode Right, Mode Left, Mode Both, and Mode Static.

Velodrome is a native AMM-style DEX built on Optimism, launched by the team behind veDAO, adapted from Solidly by Andre Cronje. The project shows a certain degree of innovation in its economic model, integrating the veToken model from Curve and the (3,3) game theory of Olympus DAO to optimize liquidity incentives. Since its launch, it has accumulated over $5.8 billion in trading volume, surpassing top multi-chain DeFi projects on Optimism such as Aave and Curve.

DeFi Kingdoms was originally a Play-to-Earn (P2E) game developed on the Harmony Protocol blockchain. Compared to other products in the same field, the uniqueness of DeFi Kingdoms lies in the fact that the project team started from DeFi, rather than gaming when creating this product. $JEWEL is the native token within its platform, a functional and valuable governance token. DeFi Kingdoms aims to package DeFi elements into a fully-fledged ecosystem. Throughout its long-term development, DeFi Kingdoms has become a typical project many users encounter when exploring the DeFi and GameFi sectors.

Combo is a blockchain network that utilizes blockchain technology to provide open-source and scalability solutions for the production and deployment of Web3 games.

Mass Vehicle Ledger enables seamless vehicle data management and secure transactions, empowering individuals and businesses while driving innovation and trust in the world of mobility.

DODO is a DEX (Decentralized Exchange) launched on the Ethereum mainnet in August 2020, utilizing the innovative PMM algorithm to aggregate liquidity near the reference price, thus reducing trading slippage and improving capital efficiency. One of the protocol's distinctive features is the introduction of crowdfunding pool token issuance. In the highly competitive on-chain DEX sector, DODO has deployed its products on multiple chains, and its platform mechanism is friendly to professional market makers and project teams. It has already secured a place in the sector, ranking third in terms of trading volume.

Ribbon Finance is a trailblazing protocol designed for creating structured products centered around options and is currently deployed across Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, and BSC, with liquidity primarily concentrated on Ethereum. Its standout product is Theta Vault, which is established on the Opyn protocol and employs smart contracts to utilize users' funds for executing strategies involving covered call or put options. Theta Vault charges a 2% management fee and a 10% performance fee. In a nod to Curve's token economics, Ribbon Finance introduced veRBN. As of now, Ribbon Finance holds the distinction of being the structured product with the largest total value locked, conferring upon it a formidable first-mover advantage.

VVS Finance is a DeFi platform based on the Cronos blockchain, focusing on user empowerment and security.

Lyra Finance is a project within the Synthetix ecosystem, an options market built on Optimism and Arbitrum. The protocol employs a pool-to-pool trading model, where liquidity providers (LPs) act as counterparties to options and share in the transaction fees. Building upon the Black-Scholes model, the Lyra Automated Market Maker (AMM) model considers the impact of options supply and demand on price, adjusting the implied volatility through various parameters. This acts as a balance for uncovered positions, preventing excessive one-sided positions from causing LP losses. The team has introduced dynamic fees and relevant circuit breaker mechanisms for LP risk management. The official website integrates Synthetix and GMX protocols, enabling LPs to hedge their own trades and achieve near delta neutrality in their risk exposure.

Established in 2019, GALA Games was envisioned to be a gaming platform on the blockchain. With consistent research and collaborations over the years, the platform has offered its players a vast and diverse array of blockchain games. Now, GALA Games can be likened to the 'Steam' platform of the blockchain industry, earning its title through not only the magnitude of its platform but also its wide user acceptance.

MOBOX is a community-driven GameFi platform, built on the BNB chain, integrating the advantages and characteristics of DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi. The platform's token, $MBOX, delivers a mature Play-to-Earn mechanism, while the combination of DeFi and NFT offers players entertainment and fun. The platform itself employs financial mechanisms and gaming systems to grant players corresponding benefits, creating a truly unique, sustainable, and economically well-circulated ecosystem.

MUX Protocol is a decentralized derivatives trading platform deployed on BSC, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fantom. It supports up to 100x leverage, with an overall mechanism similar to GMX's. The Protocol's uniqueness lies in its shared multi-chain liquidity and built-in contract trading aggregator.

Stader is a decentralized multi-chain liquidity staking platform that allows third parties to easily build custom solutions by constructing modular smart contracts. Currently, Stader has enabled liquidity staking on chains such as Hedera, Polygon, BNB Chain, Fantom, NEAR, and Terra 2.0, allowing users to stake tokens and earn returns. In the future, Stader plans to expand its staking services to Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, and Aptos, among other public chains. By extending its presence to multiple chains, Stader aims to provide a user-friendly liquidity staking service with low entry barriers, thereby assisting users in optimizing their capital efficiency.

Since its launch, Opyn has been committed to developing its growing ecosystem that encompasses not only structured products, but a series of development tools and templates to provide developers with resources. Opyn V2 has now become the underlying protocol for structured option products, giving full play to the composability of DeFi. The core product, Squeeth, pioneered the concept of Power Perpetual and tracks the square of the ETH price. It simplifies on-chain calculations for options while offering users positive convexity in return, making it a new attempt in the options market.