Armor.Fi
Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. arCORE tracks and protects your crypto assets, you pay per second! Buy a cover that can be sold, traded or staked for rewards. Swap and deposit your (w)NXM tokens and earn yield. Auto-protect your liquidity positions without extra costs. Armor is a decentralized brokerage for cover underwritten by Nexus Mutual’s blockchain-based insurance alternative. DeFi protocols are largely open source, making them an easy target for hackers. Repeated large-scale hacks could prevent DeFi from achieving mainstream adoption. Insurance makes sense to buy for those who might not recover from losses potentially incurred by smart contract risks. Armor is a smart insurance aggregator for DeFi, built on trustless and decentralized financial infrastructure. Users may cover their assets against smart contract risks across popular protocols such as Uniswap, Sushiswap, AAVE, Maker, Compound, Curve, etc.
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Opium Finance
Opium.finance is a decentralized finance platform where people create markets. Be your own banker and hedge fund manager with a wide range of сutting-edge financial tools. Tailored for DeFi traders, Opium insurance covers smart contract exploits, credit default events, stablecoin custodian insolvency, impermanent loss, price volatility, SAFT risks & off-chain risks. Crypto staking is a process of providing your crypto coins to a trading strategy or market-making algorithm in return for interest. Higher APR than on lending protocols with the same risk, stake and unstake anytime in the secondary market. Turbo is a product with a short expiry that gives investors highly leveraged exposure to the underlying asset. Risk-takers have a chance for high returns in a day a week, risk-hedgers can stake their crypto into a liquidity pool that covers turbo products in exchange for fees and a statistically stable return on staked funds.
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Acala
Scale your DApp to Polkadot with Acala, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform optimized for DeFi. Acala is the decentralized finance network and liquidity hub of Polkadot. It’s a layer-1 smart contract platform that’s scalable, Ethereum-compatible, and optimized for DeFi with built-in liquidity and ready-made financial applications. With its trustless exchange, decentralized stablecoin (aUSD), DOT Liquid Staking (LDOT), and EVM+, Acala lets developers access the best of Ethereum and the full power of substrate. Access DOT-based assets and derivatives, Polkadot-native decentralized stablecoin, Polkadot ecosystem assets, and cross-chain assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum and beyond. Acala’s chain is customized for DeFi and can continue to upgrade without forks to integrate new features requested from developers. For example, on-chain ‘keepers’ automate protocol execution to better manage risks and improve user experience, or transaction fees payable with virtually any token.
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Tidal Finance
Tidal Finance is a project to establish a decentralized insurance marketplace in DeFi space to connect insurance sellers and buyers to cover smart contract hacks risk. Tidal offers the functionality to create custom insurance pools for one or more protocols. The main objective of the platform is to maximize capital efficiency and return to attract reserve providers while offering competitive insurance premiums to attract buyers. As DeFi becomes mainstream, individuals and institutions need assurances that their investment of value into these new protocols are protected. As with any new technology, smart contracts are susceptible to hacks and manipulations. In order to increase the adoption of DeFi instruments, confidence in these protocols must be increased. Tidal solves this problem in a way that is economically attractive to users of DeFi protocols, transparent, profitable for s, decentralized, and scalable.
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