DeFi / DEX aggregator that is interested in high liquidity and optimal rates on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Optimism, Polygon

1inch

Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where people can lend out their assets to earn interest, or borrow various cryptocurrencies against their deposited collateral. The protocol has a native token AAVE, which is used by its community to make collective decisions on the direction of the protocol.

AAVE

Aavegotchi is a DeFi-enabled crypto collectibles game developed by Singapore-based Pixelcraft Studios that allows players to stake Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) avatars with interest-generating tokens and interact with the Aavegotchi metaverse. It is a unique combination of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and NFTs.

Aavegotchi

AirSwap is an open developer community focused on decentralized trading systems. AirSwap technology powers peer-to-peer swap networks using de facto standard RFQ and Last Look protocols making it the weapon of choice for traditional market makers entering the decentralized financial system.

Airswap

Alchemix Finance is a DeFi protocol that allows people to create yield-backed synthetic tokens in exchange for providing their cryptocurrencies as collateral. Visitors can for example deposit their DAI into the protocol, and receive (a lesser amount of) alUSD tokens, equally pegged to $1. 

The protocol uses the collateral provided by its visitors to collect yield and dynamically repay the depositors' debt, essentially giving its users an immediate claim on the future yield of their tokens. The protocols native token is ALCX, used to govern the development and directional decisions of Alchemix.

Alchemix

The Ampleforth protocol is a set of instructions on the Ethereum blockchain that produces a decentralized unit of account called AMPL. The AMPL token is the primary building block of the Ampleforth Elastic Finance Ecosystem. It is used for lending & borrowing, for the creation of derivatives, and as collateral for a decentralized stablecoin.

Ampleforth

Build your Decentralized Autonomous Organization on open-source infrastructure with governance plugins

Aragon

Boosting DeFi stakeholders' yield potential and governance power


Aura Finance

Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with a single purpose: build the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains.

Badger

Balancer is a multi-token automated market maker (AMM) that functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio protocol. Balancer is built on the Ethereum network. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools and earn trading fees. Compared to a typical constant product AMM model, Balancer uses a generalization formula that could be adjusted to any number of tokens at any amount of weightage.

Balancer

Bancor is a decentralized exchange. It is distinguished from other DEX protocols by its automated market maker, which lets people deposit liquidity in a single-sided fashion, whereas many other platforms require its visitors to provide liquidity with their tokens in an inherently two-sided way. Bancor's automated market maker mechanism achieves this through its native token, BNT, which is dynamically minted and co-invested by the protocol when visitors deposit their collateral as liquidity. Besides having BNT as the unitary counterpart asset of exchange for trading on the platform, the protocol also offers a unique solution against Impermanent Loss to its liquidity providers.

Bancor

Bankless is a movement for Web3 pioneers

We seek new ways to build wealth, solve human coordination problems, create culture, and develop cutting-edge thought leadership in the crypto space. Going Bankless means taking control of your financial health by adopting decentralized and permissionless money systems. Bankless is the movement educating the world on how to do it.

BanklessDAO

BarnBridge is a fluctuations derivatives protocol for hedging yield sensitivity and market price.

BarnBridge

BitDAO is a collective of builders and stakeholders enabling mutually beneficial Web3 ecosystems of people, products, and public goods.

BitDAO

BlackPool is the first decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) built solely for NFT gaming and trading. Their strategies will be based on their long-term passion for gaming and art, as they combine professional data analytics and machine learning to provide the best returns for their users.

Blackpool

Coliving in nature for creators & remote workers

Cabin is building a network city: A collection of remarkable coliving properties tied by a shared culture, community, economy, and governance.

Cabin

Top auditors compete to keep high severity bugs out of production.
Community-driven contests for smart contract audits.

Code4rena

Compound is a decentralized autonomous interest rate protocol. It allows people to lend and borrow their cryptocurrencies, and establishes money markets by algorithmically setting interest rates based on supply and demand of various assets. Its native token is COMP, allowing holders to propose and vote on changes made to the protocol.

Compound

Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications.

Decentraland

Developer DAO

Decentralised naming for wallets, websites, and more

Ethereum Name Service

### What

Euler is a non-custodial permissionless protocol on Ethereum that allows users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset. Euler helps users to earn interest on their crypto assets or hedge against volatile markets without the need for a trusted third-party.

### Why?

Euler introduces a number of new features in DeFi, including permissionless lending markets, protected collateral, reactive interest rates, per-second compounding interests and feeless flash loans.

#### Permisionless listing 

Euler lets its users determine which assets are listed. Any asset that has a WETH pair on Uniswap v3 can be added as a lending market on Euler.

#### Protected Collateral

On Compound and Aave, collateral deposited to the protocol is always made available for lending. On the other hand, Euler allows collateral to be deposited, but not made available for lending.  This collateral is 'protected'. It doesn't earn interest, but is free from the risks of borrowers defaulting, can always be withdrawn instantly, and helps protect against borrowers using tokens to influence governance decisions.

#### Reactive interest rates

Euler uses control theory to autonomously change the interest rates towards a level that maximises utilisation of assets in the protocol. These reactive interest rates adapt to market conditions for the asset in real-time without the need for ongoing governance intervention. 

#### Compound Interest

Compound interest is accrued on Euler each second. This is different from other lending protocols, where interest is typically accrued every block. Earning interest per-second is generally expected to perform more predictably in the long-run, even if upgrades to Ethereum lead to changes in the average time between blocks.

#### Feeless Flash Loans 

Euler only charges fees according to the time value of money, and from the blockchain's perspective flash loans are held for a duration of 0 seconds. Thus, they are entirely free on Euler (ignoring gas costs).


Euler Finance

DEFI 🤝 NFTS
DEEP LIQUIDITY AND HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FOR NFTS.

Floor DAO

Friends with Benefits is a worldwide group of cultural creators, thinkers, and builders who convene digitally and IRL to collaboratively shape web3's future. 

Friends With Benefits

Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol. It allows you to take leverage and then use it across other DeFi protocols and platforms in a composable way.

Gearbox Protocol

Goldfinch

Hats Finance is a Decentralized smart bug bounty marketplace. It is a Permissionless, scalable, and open bug bounty protocol that allows anyone to provide liquidity to bug bounties

Hats Finance

Bridge Ethereum, Polygon, Gnosis, Optimism, Arbitrum

Hop Exchange

JPEG'd

Fight climate change and earn rewards with KLIMA, a digital currency backed by real carbon assets.

KlimaDAO

Kyber Network is a multi-chain crypto trading and liquidity hub that connects liquidity from different sources to enable trades at the best rates.

Kyber

### What

Lido is an open source tool and family of protocols that enables users to mint liquid staking tokens (sTokens) - These liquid staking tokens receive rewards from validation activities of writing data to the blockchain, but unlike their staked counterparts, are "unlocked" which means they can be used in other on-chain activities, like DeFi. 

Lido protocols let users stake native tokens (ETH, MATIC, SOL) from Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana networks in a fully permissionless way. And as the protocols are deployed on public blockchains, users do not need the website to access the smart contracts.

### Why

Traditional staking means that users need to lock-up their ETH or other native asset to be able to secure the network and receive the respective rewards. However, this means that these tokens can't be used for anything else while they are staked. Lido aims to solve this problem. 

Lido protocols give users liquidity - users are able to receive staking rewards from validation activities, but can sell their stTokens (tokens minted on Lido) anytime they want to exit their staking position. 

In addition, it allows users to participate in DeFi while getting rewards - Because sTokens are unstaked and thus "liquid", users can use stTokens as building blocks in DeFi protocols at the same time as getting staking rewards from validating activities.

The Lido DAO also works with experienced node operators, which decreases the likelihood of technical mistakes that could lead to slashing or penalties and minimizes the technical burden for users to receive staking rewards. Users supply the stake, and the node operators supply the know-how.


Lido

Maker is a decentralized lending platform that allows people to lock in their crypto collateral in exchange for DAI, a decentralized stablecoin whose price target is pegged to $1. The protocol's native token used for governance is MKR.

Maker

The Meebits are 20,000 unique 3D voxel characters, created by a custom generative algorithm, then registered on the Ethereum blockchain.

Meebits

A supportive ecosystem of creators and builders at the forefront of web3 and DAO

MetaCartel

Metafactory offers a comprehensive portfolio of textiles, textile finishing and merchandise related to cryptocurrencies.

Metafactory

Please read [this blog post](https://mycelium.xyz/blog/the-future-of-mycelium)and close your positions




Mycelium

Buy, sell, and swap NFTs instantly. Deposit NFTs to earn yield (but you may not get the sames ones back).

NFTX

Nexus Mutual protocol and token can be used to buy insurance cover, vote on governance decisions, and participate in Risk and Claims Assessments. It is also used to encourage capital provision and represents ownership to the mutual’s capital. As the mutual’s capital pool increases, the value of NXM will increase as well. 

Nexus Mutual

Fixed rate borrowing & lending protocol with $650M+ in total lending volume. 

Notional Finance

Nouns are an experimental attempt to improve the formation of on-chain avatar communities. While projects such as Cryptopunks have attempted to bootstrap digital community and identity, Nouns attempt to bootstrap identity, community, governance, and a treasury that can be used by the community.

Nouns

Olympus is building OHM, a community-owned, decentralized and censorship-resistant reserve currency that is deeply liquid, asset-backed, and used widely across Web3.

Olympus

Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.

Optimism

Paraswap aggregates decentralized exchanges and other DeFi services in one comprehensive interface to streamline and facilitate users' interactions with Ethereum's decentralized finance.

Paraswap

Pentacle helps you explore protocols – with a focus on security, reputation, and relationships.

Made for budding investors, researchers and contributors, Pentacle delivers real-time data on yield opportunities, audits, risk management, integrations, governance, treasuries, team members, jobs, grants and bounties. 

Using Pentacle, you can zoom in on a project, zoom out to compare – or take a voyage of discovery by following relations mapped through projects, people, skill levels and topics. You can also make a list of favorites, add private notes and trace your browsing history. 

Pentacle provides verified information, safe links and helpful learning tools in your crypto quest.

Pentacle

PoolTogether is a crypto-powered savings protocol based on Premium Bonds. Save money and have a chance to win every day.

PoolTogether

Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together. For unstoppable, permissionless, decentralized open-source development. Forget platforms. Easily share your code without relying on a third party. No central servers, no censorship. Built on Git, backed by public-key crypto

Radicle

Rarible is a NFT exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell NFTs on the ethereum network.

Rarible

The Redacted ecosystem is a product suite of smart contracts empowering on-chain liquidity, governance, and cash flow for DeFi protocols. We've built two products inline with this mission: Hidden Hand and Pirex — with more in research and development. 

The Redacted protocol is the dApp centered around BTRFLY, which allows users to stake, earn incentives, and interact with governance proposals.

The Redacted Cartel is the DAO building out the Redacted ecosystem. The DAO consists of developers, writers, researchers, and more who are all focused on building out Redacted and extending its reach in DeFi. 

Redacted

The most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum. Enter the Multisig. Safe is a smart contract wallet running on Ethereum that requires a minimum number of people to approve a transaction before it can occur 

Safe

Seed Club is a DAO that builds and invests in communities. We’re building a future where the value created by communities on the internet is captured by people, not platforms.

Seed Club

Stargate is a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi

Stargate

Sturdy is a DeFi protocol for interest-free borrowing and high yield lending. Instead of charging borrowers interest, Sturdy stakes their collateral and passes the yield to lenders 

Sturdy Finance

Superrare is a NFT exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell NFTs on the ethereum network.

Superrare

Sushi is a decentralized exchange protocol. While originally launching as a Uniswap fork, the project's community has since developed a wide range of features that make use of decentralized liquidity pools. The Kasi suite of the protocol allows people to lend and borrow tokens as well as to trade with leverage in a decentralized way, for example. The protocols native token, SUSHI, can be staked in order to claim a part of the protocol's fees.

Sushi

Synthetix is a new financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering unique derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain.

Synthetix

A for-profit, venture DAO supporting the blockchain ecosystem


The LAO

### What

Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol (DEX). It allows people to set up or contribute to liquidity pools consisting of various ERC-20 token pairs, or to use the available liquidity to swap their tokens against another using its Automated Market Maker (AMM) mechanism. 


### Why

AMMS are one of the building blocks in the crypto space as they always provide users with a price between two assets. Uniswap uses a simple  X * Y = K, formula to price assets where x is the amount of one token in the liquidity pool, and y is the amount of the other. k is a fixed constant, meaning the pool’s total liquidity is always the same. 


### Risk

There are various risks involved with using AMMS. These include but are not limited to:
Protocol Risk - risk due to mechanics in the design of a protocol. Even when the protocol functions as intended there might be risks e.g. high slippage incurred in trades due to the liquidity curve set-up
Smart contract risk - This is risk from an error in the code causing the contract to operate in ways unexpected by the developers. It might leave the code vulnerable to exploits or other attacks
Cybersecurity risk - Hackers, Exploiters or other malicious actors trying to attack Uniswap 


### Reward

Uniswap is arguably one of the largest AMMs in crypto and is usually the protocol where tokens find the most liquidity. Its UI/UX is extremely simple and users can trade most tokens with little problems.   


Uniswap

Vesper is a platform for easy-to-use DeFi products. More than 50 audits, 20 strategies, 40 pools, and more.

Vesper's DeFi products deliver ease-of-use in achieving your crypto-finance objectives. The Vesper token (VSP) is the core economic engine that facilitates the building and expansion of Vesper’s capabilities and its community. 

Vesper Finance

Yam launched on August 12th, 2020 as An Experiment in Fair Farming, Governance, and Elasticity. Yam Protocol mashes up some of the most exciting innovations in programmable money and governance. Built by a team of DeFi natives, but now controlled by the community. On December 29th, 2020 the Yam community has voted to disable the rebasing / elastic supply function of Yam and the scaling factor of Yam has been fixed at 2.50.

Yam finance

The Yield Protocol. 

Yearn is a decentralized suite of products helping individuals, DAOs, and other protocols earn yield on their digital assets.


Yearn

Socialized Asset Management. Find the best investment managers and automated strategies in DeFi.

dhedge

Millions in open source project funding. We've helped thousands of projects and teams grow their open source ecosystems.

gitcoin

We’re a community of finance professionals, engineers, DeFi experts, meme-makers, content marketers and crypto enthusiasts focused on making crypto investing simple. 

Together we launch, grow, and maintain the most trustworthy crypto indices on the market.

index Coop

Decentralised Stablecoin Ecosystem.

Trade and earn yield on your stablecoins on mStable, a decentralised and non-custodial protocol powered by $MTA

mStable

PleasrDAO is a collective of DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists who have built a formiddable yet benevelont reputation for acquiring culturally significant pieces with a charitable twist.

pleasrDAO

Ribbon Finance is a suite of DeFi protocols that help users access crypto structured products. It combines derivatives and fixed income to improve a portfolio's risk-return profile.

ribbon

Silo is a non-custodial lending protocol to borrow any crypto asset with another.

Treasuries