Waterfall DeFi is a platform that offers true risk diversification through tranching of yield generating DeFi assets. The rise of decentralized finance (“DeFi”) has taken the cryptocurrency markets to a whole new level.
Over the past 3 years since the initial coin offering (“ICO”) frenzy started in 2017 and brought the market into a 3 year bear trend, we’ve witnessed many developers either continue to build or pivot from nonsensical projects to platforms that add value to the financial ecosystem within crypto.
Some of the early projects that gave birth to DeFi was MakerDAO; a stablecoin that is backed by cryptocurrency as collateral (“DAI”) and its governance token (“MKR”). Then came along Compound (“COMP”), a platform similar to MakerDAO, but instead allowed direct borrowing and lending of selected cryptocurrencies with a marginalized system to control collateral risk.
Many of the borrowed capital went into leveraged trading within Defi - the likes of derivatives platform Synthetix (SNX) and the notorious decentralized exchange Uniswap (UNI) that is powered by the Automated Market Model (more on this later).
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