BENQI

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has grown substantially in the last 2 years. As most of DeFi's activity is currently conducted on Ethereum, the network has started to experience congestion problems that have resulted in high network fees. This has proven to be a significant barrier for both old and new users with smaller capital to justify engaging in DeFi.

BENQI aims to alleviate these problems by providing a Liquidity Market Protocol on a highly scalable and decentralized platform. With a focus on approachability, ease of use, and low fees, BENQI will democratize access to decentralized financial products by providing permissionless lending and borrowing where users can:

1. Instantly supply to and withdraw liquidity from a shared liquidity market

2. Instantly borrow from a liquidity market using their supplied assets as collateral

3. Have a live and transparent view of interest rates around the clock based on the asset's market supply and demand

To use the protocol, the user deposits their preferred asset that is accepted by the protocol. Users will be able to earn interest based on the asset's market demand for borrowing. Additionally, deposited assets can be used as collateral to allow the user to borrow other assets. Interest earned by depositing funds offsets the accumulated interest rates from borrowing.

Additional token pools will be added as the platform grows. The additions into the protocol will be initially decided by the core team and as the protocol's governance transitions into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), additional pools will be approved based on community votes and proposals, using the QI governance token.

Funds are administered by Smart Contracts.

Depositors/Lenders will be given tokenized yield-bearing tokens (QiTokens) which will be used to withdraw funds from the pool on-demand when required. QiTokens can be transferred and traded as any other crypto-asset on Avalanche.