Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

The DeFi Vertical is dedicated to fostering a robust, thriving DeFi ecosystem within Tezos and its associated rollups. Our team is committed to promoting the growth and adoption of the Tezos blockchain in the decentralized finance domain. We collaborate closely with ecosystem teams, projects, and partners to enhance the success and impact of DeFi within Tezos and the broader Web3 community. Cryptocurrencies and the wider blockchain space at their core revolve around the idea of facilitating transfers of value online. This has led to the DeFi developments we’ve seen and continue to see and the DeFi grants program is all about facilitating the emergence of further quality DeFi and OpenFi apps on Etherlink and Tezos.

Criteria: Projects should have a secure and transparent technical framework, innovative financial solutions and robust risk management strategies. To ensure the security and reliability of DeFi projects built on our blockchain, all projects must undergo a comprehensive security audit conducted by a reputable and recognized third-party auditing firm, covering all smart contracts and relevant codebases.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

On-Chain Funds

Providing on-chain funds, e.g. BVI-based professional funds that issue tokens rather than shares, enabling secondary market trading on-chain with no off-chain documentation trails.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Free On-Ramp/Off-Ramp

An app providing individuals with the opportunity to go from their fiat currency to a stablecoin pegged to that fiat currency, e.g. USD USDC or EUR EURC.

The on-ramp should be free and nearly instant, including on weekends This therefore implies that the app charges fees in some way, potentially retaining some of the yield on underlying bonds in which the fiat money is parked.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Projects Linking RWA (real-world assets) and On-Chain Price Discovery

Currently stablecoins are by far the largest category of tokenized assets.

When a user is looking to go from say USDC to USDT, they typically go through a stablecoin pool. Money sits in those pools all day, yielding very little.

A more efficient way to do this would be to have an automated system that redeems USDC for fiat USD and then mints USDT with those fiat USD. This does not require any capital to sit around and results in a transaction that is free of slippage even in very large sizes.

While the above example might not be relevant, there are a number of those inefficiencies in crypto because price discovery on-chain tends to be way less efficient than the real-world alternative already established sometimes for 30 years.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Tokenized RWA Income Streams

Building platforms for tokenized income streams, like rental payments or artist royalties, that provide a seamless Web3 experience with enhanced user convenience and transparency.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Truly Safe Bitcoin Lending

A solution enabling the lending of BTC on the Bitcoin network would allow Bitcoin holders to borrow against their assets safely, without triggering taxable events or risking liquidation.

By leveraging technologies like Babylon Chain, this solution could offer fixed, low-interest rates (

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