Convex

Parallel's mission is to innovate and bring DeFi to the next level. We are creating the most secure and easy-to-use decentralized platform to empower everyone access to financial services. Simply supply the assets, we optimize the best yield for you and you don't have to do all the complicated DeFi stuff, in a secure and decentralized way. Our platform introduces a new financial primitive for staked DOT, which allows users to accrue interest from staking while still having a liquid asset not subject to lockups or lengthy unlock periods. This staked DOT financial primitive will be referred to as xDOT. Lenders will be able to earn interest income on their xDOT, and borrowers will be able to get loans against their DOT denominated in stable coins without selling their DOT. The Parallel lending protocol uses a pool-based strategy that aggregates each user's supplied assets. This lending protocol will have a DOT, sDOT, and USDT pool where users can deposit their assets and earn interest.

Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity and new features for earning yield. Other AMM DEXs and DeFi protocols are only able to access liquidity within their own pools and have no access to a central order book. Additionally, with the majority of platforms running on Ethereum, transactions are slow and gas fees are high. We leverage the efficiency of the Solana blockchain to achieve transactions magnitudes faster than Ethereum and gas fees which are a fraction of the cost. Raydium provides on-chain liquidity to the central limit order book of the Serum DEX, meaning that Raydium allows access to the order flow and liquidity of the entire Serum ecosystem. For traders who want to be able to view TradingView charts, set limit orders and have more control over their trading.