What Is Unifi Protocol DAO (UNFI)?

Unifi Protocol is a revolutionary approach to blockchain economics. The concept is simple - the network will use a stablecoin as its gas token to remove transaction volatility and inflation. 
The project aims to create the next class of blockchain, built on the principle of economic sustainability. Building a blockchain, not another cryptocurrency.

Unifi Protocol DAO is on a mission to make blockchain a solution to modern finance by building a sustainable blockchain economy predictable enough to run a business on.

Unifi Protocol DAO has been retooling blockchain economics with their innovative solutions since 2018. These include products such as a wrapperless cross-chain bridge (uBridge), a multi-chain AMM (uTrade) complete with advanced DeFi arbitrage strategies (DARBi), and a fully collateralized token integrated throughout the ecosystem ($UP).    

UNFI is the governance token for Unifi Protocol DAO. UNFI holders have exclusive rights to propose and participate in referendums 
Who Are the Founders of Unifi Protocol DAO?
The Unifi Protocol DAO was founded and created by an online staking community called Sesameseed.

Juliun Brabon is co-founder and CEO of Unifi Protocol DAO. He graduated with an English degree from the University of Buffalo and started a career in operations management. Later he became the president of several companies, including Jarrow Industries and Dr. Vita. In May 2018, he co-founded Sesameseed and started working on Unifi Protocol DAO.

Kerk Wei Yang is another integral part of the Unifi team, responsible for developing the smart contract capabilities of Unifi Protocol DAO. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and started working in data administration. He joined Unifi Protocol DAO full-time in October 2020.

Daniel Blanco is the lead developer of Unifi Protocol DAO. He has a solid background in information technologies and has worked for companies like Transparent CDN and Seedtag. He joined Unifi Protocol DAO full-time in October 2020.
What Makes Unifi Protocol DAO Unique?

Unifi Protocol DAO believes blockchain technology has a crypto problem and is striving to flip the script on the industry and build a blockchain without creating a native gas token. Their plan is to re-think what a blockchain should be, such as ripping apart the core tenets of why gas tokens need to be inflationary commodities. Or how subsidizing validators with network inflation may not be the solution which allows true blockchain adoption and businesses to thrive.
How Many Unifi Protocol DAO (UNFI) Coins Are There in Circulation?
The total supply of UNFI tokens is 10,000,000. Currently, there are about 5,800,000 UNFI tokens in active circulation on the market.

As UNFI is a multi-chain governance token for Unifi Protocol Dao, it is critical to its core function that it be both as decentralized and multi-chain as possible. In support of these initiatives UNFI is available on many blockchains as a native asset with governance rights. In support of this token economy, the DAO currently supports the liquidity of the token on these blockchains with full details found in Dev docs on the Unifi Protocol website. 

In addition to multi-chain support, UNFI has been distributed freely to both Launchpool participants on Binance and through staking initiatives on Ethereum. 

How Is the Unifi Protocol Network Secured?
Unifi Protocol is secured by a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. PoS relies on the fact that tokens are stakable to ensure the validity of nodes and secure the mining process. This means that nodes are selected based on their stake in the given token.
Unlike the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus method used by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, PoS is extremely scalable and can offer more flexibility to project creators. Not only that, PoS does not require vast amounts of electrical and computing power to facilitate the mining process.


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Bella's smart pool feature allows users to access the best yields available in the DeFi market, while benefiting from nearly zero gas fees — since these are directly subsidized by the platform.

The project launched in September 2020 as the first project distributed via Binance’s Launchpool platform, and has secured investments from several prominent firms, including Arrington XRP Capital and Ledger Capital.

The protocol was built by the ARPA team, a blockchain-based layer 2 solution for privacy-preserving computation. The BEL token is an essential component of the Bella Protocol ecosystem and serves as both a reward token that allows holders to participate in the governance of the platform.

BEL can be used to farm fee rewards from the network, get exclusive discounts on Bella protocol products (such as its robo-advisor tool), and for earning staking rewards.

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Tellor is a decentralized oracle protocol.

Oracles are a key part of blockchain infrastructure that update valuable off-chain data, making it available for on-chain smart contracts.

Tellor’s oracle supplies data that can be requested, validated and put on-chain permissionlessly with data reporters competing for incentives of TRB. Data reporters bring valuable information on-chain for a wide range of DeFi applications.

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Bluzelle is a decentralized storage network for the creator economy.

Bluzelle delivers high security, un-matched availability, and is censorship resistant. Whether you are an artist, musician, scientist, publisher, or developer, Bluzelle protects the intellectual property of all creators. Bluzelle is data storage, file storage, oracles, and more. Its is specific for NFTs and DeFi.

Bluzelle’s core products are all related to data and powered by its Tendermint Blockchain:

Bluzelle DB - a decentralized database for software developers to store information

Bluzelle Oracles - a truly decentralized pricing oracle that provides high speed and high security for Defi applications

Bluzelle Staking - where BLZ holders can currently stake their tokens and earn rewards for providing storage and pricing data.

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Quant.

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BarnBridge

Venus is an algorithmic money market and synthetic stablecoin protocol launched exclusively on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

The protocol introduces a simple-to-use crypto asset lending and borrowing solution to the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, enabling users to directly borrow against collateral at high speed while losing less to transaction fees. In addition, Venus allows users to mint VAI stablecoins on-demand within seconds by posting at least 200% collateral to the Venus smart contract.

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The governance of the protocol is entirely controlled by XVS community members, since the Venus founders, team members and other advisors do have any XVS token allocations.

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Dego Finance.

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A builder can be a single developer, a group of developers, or even a company. There are no fixed obligations to participation requirements, and anyone can create. The pillars of Badger DAO include the Badger Builders, the community-created products, the Dedicated Badger Operations team, the fairly initial distribution of the BADGER tokens for governance and the fact that all of the code is open-sourced.

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Different components of the Flamingo network are planned to be launched in several phases:

Token wrapper for Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, Neo, Ontology and others: September 23, 2020

Swap and LP token staking: September 30, 2020

Phase 3 vault launch and stablecoin issuance: October 28, 2020

Perp launch: November 25, 2020

DAO launch: December 23, 2020

Flamingo

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In this world, users could carry out daily events such as social, gaming, etc. Meanwhile, they could experience DeFi and NFT functions with their own avatars such as trading, staking, NFT exhibitions or Gamefi, etc.

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Stella strives to become the go-to destination for DeFi users to access maximum yield potential. Whatever on-chain strategies that users want to use on leverage (and safe enough to be supported), then Stella will support at 0% cost to borrow.

The protocol is made up of two parts: Stella Strategy and Stella Lend.

Stella Strategy: Users can access multiple selections of leveraged strategies with 0% borrowing interest for the first time and get yields on leverage.

Stella Lend: Lenders can lend assets to the lending pools on Stella and get real yields. Yields generated from Stella Strategy are shared to lenders.

Stella

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Balancer(https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-balancer.

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Private pools give the owner governance over the pool, and make the person the sole contributor of liquidity to the pool. Also, all the parameters are mutable by the owner.

Shared pools are for those who want to become liquidity providers (LPs). The LPs are rewarded with the Balancer Pool Tokens (BPTs).

Smart pools are similar to private pools but are controlled by a smart contract. They also reward using BPTs and allow anyone to contribute liquidity to the pool.

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Adventure Gold was launched on Sept. 2, 2021, and allowed each owner of a Loot NFT to claim 10,000 tokens for free. With the price of AGLD skyrocketing in the initial days of trading, this airdrop was worth as much as $70,000 per NFT. AGLD founder Will Papper claimed he wanted to set a standard for projects building on Loot by providing a currency for the decentralized gaming universe.

Adventure Gold

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