## What Is Frontier (FRONT)?

Frontier is a chain-agnostic decentralized finance ([DeFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-decentralized-finance)) aggregator. The project aims to add DeFi support to several [blockchains](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain), including BandChain ([BAND](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/band-protocol/)), Ethereum ([ETH](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/)), Binance Smart Chain ([BSC](https://coinmarketcap.com/view/binance-smart-chain/)) and Harmony ([ONE](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harmony/)).

Frontier’s applications allow users to manage [staking](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/staking), DeFi positions, best-rate asset swapping, [liquidity](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity) mining, and collateralized debt position ([CDP](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/collateralized-debt-position-cdp)) creation and monitoring.

In a nutshell, Frontier is bringing the core functions of DeFi to users, regardless of the platforms they use. 

Frontier began development in April 2019, and the beta platform launched in November 2019. 



### Who Are The Founders of Frontier?

Frontier has a team of at least 15 members spread across the world. The co-founders of the project are Ravindra Kumar, Palash Jain and Vetrichelvan Jeyapalpandy.

Kumar is the CEO of Frontier and a tech advisor at THORChain. He is a [smart contract](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/smart-contract) and Android developer with over nine years of experience. He has worked on over 50 mobile applications, including Care.com, Cleartrip.com and Fueled.com. Kumar has also worked as a chief technology officer (CTO) for Woodstock Fund and InstaDapp, a decentralized banking infrastructure that offers support for DeFi [protocols](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/protocol).

Palash Jain is the CMO of Frontier with more than three years of experience in the blockchain space. He has worked with BitMax, Matic, IOST and Lambda, where he served as communications manager. He holds a bachelor of technology in computer engineering from the Global Academy of Technology.

Vetrichelvan Jeyapalpandy, the CTO of Frontier, has a track record in mobile and web development. He was a consultant at Care.com for over seven years and worked as a front-end engineer for Cleartrip.com. He holds a bachelor of technology in chemical engineering from Kongu Engineering College.


#### What Makes Frontier Unique?

Frontier aims to solve the problem of fragmentation within the DeFi sector. Significant isolation exists when it comes to swapping, borrowing, lending, staking and providing liquidity. Frontier aims to solve this challenge by aggregating several DeFi applications in one location.

Frontier claims that non-[custodial](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/custodial) wallets are mostly suitable for storing [cryptoassets](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/cryptoasset) but are unusable when it comes to DeFi. This forces users to download multiple wallets in an attempt to participate in a single ecosystem. Frontier integrates several wallets such as Metamask, FortMatic, Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet, and imToken. Its users don’t have to transfer their cryptoassets between different wallets to participate in DeFi.


#### How Many Frontier (FRONT) Coins Are There in Circulation?

The FRONT token is a utility token within the Frontier ecosystem. It was made for use by small players in DeFi who are disadvantaged by high costs.

The total supply of FRONT is capped at 100 million tokens and is distributed as follows:



*   Token sale: 32.5%
*   Ecosystem: 20%
*   Staking rewards: 13.5%
*   Reserves: 10%
*   Team: 10%
*   Community: 8%
*   Marketing: 6%

The FRONT token can also be used for:



*   Voting on the Frontier Chain. FRONT token holders make decisions within the framework of decentralized governance.
*   Providing liquidity to pools. This allows users to earn a passive income. FRONT tokens will bootstrap liquidity for several DeFi protocols.
*   Staking as a way of securing the Frontier Chain network. Users will do so by either running a validator node or delegating their FRONT tokens to validators.


### How is Frontier Network Secured?

The FRONT token is an [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) token. Frontier has deployed smart contracts that allow token holders to bridge their FRONT ERC-20 tokens to Binance Smart Chain’s [BEP-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/bep-20) standard. Frontier released its Frontier Chain Incentivized Testnet, powered by Cosmos SDK, in April 2021.


### Where Can You Buy Frontier (FRONT)?

FRONT tokens can be traded on multiple centralized ([CEX](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/centralized-exchange-cex#:~:text=Centralized%20exchanges%20(CEXs)%20are%20a,it%20in%20a%20centralized%20manner.)) and decentralized exchanges ([DEX](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-exchange-dex)), including:



*   [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/binance/)
*   [Houbi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/huobi-global/)
*   [KuCoin](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kucoin/)
*   [Gate.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/gate-io/)
*   [Uniswap (V2)](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/uniswap-v2/)

Read more [here](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/) on how to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.


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Ethernity is a blockchain-based platform that allows users to take advantage of the increasing popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The developers position it as a decentralized finance (DeFi) crossover project with authenticated NFTs. In the Ethernity ecosystem, all NFTs can be bought and sold on-chain.

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

Ethernity was funded on the Polkastarter platform, where its crowd sale took place on March 8, 2021. The project tries to create favorable conditions for all active members of the community to boost the value of its ERN token.

Prior to launching ERN, Ethernity underwent a round of strategic investments backed by Black Edge Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Woodstock and Genesis Block Ventures.

Ethernity

Origin Protocol develops web3 technologies with the intention of bringing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) to the masses. The protocol’s unique tooling and diverse partnerships help in realizing these goals. Origin Protocol has two flagship products: Origin Story (governed by OGN), and Origin Dollar (governed by OGV).

Origin Story is a white label NFT marketplace solution that works with disrupters in various sectors by leveraging non-fungible tokens. The platform hosts NFT marketplaces and tooling in various industries, including the real estate, profile picture, music, art and entertainment industries.

Some of Origin Story’s partners include Roofstock onChain, Pudgy Penguins, Sappy Seals, Paris Hilton, 3LAU, BT, Inspiration4, and The Doge Pound. Origin Story Marketplaces seek to cast a wide net in various industries being impacted by NFTs, rather than focusing on any one area in particular. Investors may see OGN as the ‘picks and shovels’ approach to investing in NFTs.

Origin Protocol

Linear is a decentralized delta-one asset protocol capable of instantly creating synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity. The project opens traditional assets like commodities, forex, market indices and other thematic sectors to cryptocurrency users by supporting the creation of “Liquids” — Linear’s synthetic asset tokens.

The protocol consists of various products like Linear.Buildr, a DApp used to manage Liquids using Linear (LINA) and other tokens as collateral. The exchange is specifically created to enable trading of a variety of Liquids with rapid confirmation times and robust security.

LINA is an ERC-20 token built on the Ethereum network whose main purpose is as collateral for Liquids (using Buildr) and for community governance of the protocol. All token holders have access to the Linear DAO, enabling them to vote on different initiatives and proposals, helping to shape the development of the Linear ecosystem.

The main goal of Linear is to provide a superior user experience with better scalability and greater speed thanks to the cross-chain capabilities of the protocol. Linear Finance intends to provide a simple solution for users that want exposure to traditional assets while still benefiting from the features enabled only by blockchain technology.

Linear Finance

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.

VAI tokens are synthetic BEP-20 token assets that are pegged to the value of one U.S. dollar (USD), whereas XVS tokens are also BEP-20-based, but are instead used for governance of the Venus protocol, and can be used to vote on adjustments—including adding new collateral types, changing parameters and organizing product improvements.

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.

Venus

Cartesi is an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.

Cartesi Rollups offer a modular scaling solution, deployable as L2, L3, or sovereign rollups, while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.

Cartesi

DODO is a DeFi protocoldecentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and on-chain liquidity provider whose unique proactive market maker (PMM) algorithm aims to offer better liquidity and price stability than automated market makers (AMM).

The PMM pricing mechanism, which mimics human trading, utilizes oracles to gather highly accurate market prices for assets. It then provides enough liquidity close to these prices in order to stabilize the portfolios of liquidity providers (LP), lower price slippage and negate impermanent loss by allowing arbitrage trading as reward.

DODO also caters for new crypto projects with a free ICO listing through its Initial DODO Offering (IDO) which requires issuers to only deposit their own tokens.

DODO’s smart contract operates as an ERC20 token on the Ethereum network.

DODO

Stella is the leveraged strategies protocol with 0% cost to borrow. Stella’s mission is to redefine how leveraged DeFi works. DeFi needs a good leverage system in order to drive more usages on DEXes and money markets, the fundamental building blocks of DeFi. With growing usages on these fundamentals, more protocols and new innovations can arise and tap into the deep liquidity and robust foundation.

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

Launched in 2020, Dego Finance is a decentralized ecosystem that offers a diverse combination of non-fungible token (NFT) and decentralized finance (DeFi) tools. It is an independent, open NFT ecosystem.

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

Any user is allowed to launch an NFT and initiate mining, auctions and trading, covering the entire lifecycle of the product. Dego’s NFT protocol is a cross-chain, second-layer infrastructure for Blockchain projects that can be leveraged for user acquisition and token distribution.

Dego uses a modular combination design concept that combines various elements of a product to form subsystems with specific functions.

Dego Finance

Akropolis is a company that operates an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol that seeks to provide an autonomous financial ecosystem for saving and growing wealth, including through borrowing and lending. To do so, it offers a series of products including AkropolisOS, a framework for developing for-profit decentralized autonomous organizations, Sparta, a platform for uncollateralized lending, and Delphi, a yield farming aggregator and tool for dollar-cost averaging.

The project uses an ERC-20 token, AKRO, for protocol governance across its suite of products.

Akropoli was first announced in March 2018, launching on the Ethereum mainnet in June 2020.

Akropolis

Ren (REN) is an open protocol built to provide interoperability and liquidity between different blockchain platforms.

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

Formerly known as Republic Protocol, Ren launched RenVM, its virtual machine mainnet, in May 2020, having completed a $34 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018.

The protocol’s native token, REN, functions as a bond for those running nodes which power RenVM, known as Darknodes.

Ren aims to expand the interoperability, and hence accessibility, of decentralized finance (DeFi) by removing hurdles involved in liquidity between blockchains.

Reef is a Reliable Extensible Efficient Fast Layer-1 Blockchain for DeFi, NFT & Gaming. Built using Substrate Framework, it provides high scalability, enabling almost instant low-cost transactions, and supports Solidity and EVM, allowing developers to seamlessly migrate their DApps from Ethereum without any change in the codebase.

Reef Chain is the most advanced EVM-compatible blockchain. It's self-upgradable and has on-chain governance. Its infrastructure also allows for EVM extensions which allows for native token bridge, scheduled calls (ie. recurring payments), and smart contract in-place code upgrades. In the near future, it will support additional VMs which will allow developers to write code in multiple programming languages. The network runs on a Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) consensus mechanism, which offers scalability and low fees.

REEF is the native token that is used for:

Fees for processing transactions and storing data.

Running validator nodes by staking REEF tokens.

Nominating which validator nodes should be part of the network.

Reef is backed by multiple leading funds and venture capitalists including NGC, QCP, Bitcoin.com, Kenetic Capital, LD Capital, TRG Capital, Krypital Group, Genesis Block, Woodstock Fund and others.

Reef Chain development tools include:

Remix and EVM integrated development environments for uploading and deploying smart contracts.

Reefscan blockchain explorer to assist with deploying validators, bonding and nominating validators, debugging contracts, and understanding network performance.

Reef command line tools that allow developers deploy applications from local environments.

Reef wallet for accessing and interacting with the blockchain

Reef

Bella Protocol is a platform that provides a suite of DeFi products designed to make crypto banking simpler and more accessible. The protocol aims to create a better user experience by eliminating the high fee and slow transaction issues that can affect some blockchain platforms — while simultaneously improving the user experience through its simplified DeFi smart portal.

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.

Bella Protocol

DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is an open-source oracle platform that enables market actors to source, supply and share trustable data. DIA aims to be an ecosystem for open financial data in a financial smart contract ecosystem, to bring together data analysts, data providers and data users. In general, DIA provides a reliable and verifiable bridge between off-chain data from various sources and on-chain smart contracts that can be used to build a variety of financial DApps.

DIA is the governance token of the platform. It is currently based on ERC-20Ethereum protocol.

The project was founded in 2018, while the token supply was made available to the public during the bonding curve sale from Aug. 3 through Aug. 17, 2020, where 10.2 million tokens were sold.

Orion is a suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) trading products with instant access to aggregated centralized and decentralized exchange liquidity to provide users with real-time best asset prices in a seamless trading experience. Orion offers the non-custodial equivalent of a DEX with access to the best priced liquidity in the world, empowering people with financial responsibility on a global scale.

Orion

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that is able to take real-world data and supply it to on-chain applications, while also connecting APIs to smart-contracts to facilitate the exchange of information between on-chain and off-chain data sources.

By supplying reputable, verifiable real-world data to blockchains, Band Protocol unlocks a range of new use cases for developers to explore — since they can now use any type of real-world data as part of their decentralized application (DApp) logic, including sports, weather, random numbers, price feed data and more.

Band Protocol initially launched as an ERC-20 project on the Ethereum blockchain in September 2019, but transitioned to the Cosmos network in June 2020 with the release of Band Protocol 2.0. The new protocol is built on BandChain using the Cosmos SDK. Oracle nodes on BandChain not only relay data but are also involved in block production/validation, giving them a dual role.

BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol ecosystem and is used as collateral by validators involved in fulfilling data requests, as well as the main medium of exchange on BandChain — being used to paying for private data.

Band Protocol

Vanar Chain

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.

Bluzelle

Chromia is a modular, relational blockchain platform that aims to make it easy for people to build decentralized applications (DApps). It was founded by ChromaWay, a company that has been working on blockchain solutions since 2014 for various sectors such as finance, real estate, gaming and public services. ChromaWay is also known for creating colored coins, which are user-defined assets on a blockchain that can represent anything from currencies to stocks to collectibles.

Chromia’s vision is to enable a new generation of DApps that can scale beyond what is currently possible and address real-world problems in various domains such as gaming, social media, finance, healthcare, education, governance, and more.

Some examples of DApps on Chromia include: My Neighbor Alice (ALICE), a multiplayer blockchain game; LAC PropertyChain, a land registry system; Green Assets Wallet, a platform for green bond verification; Hedget (HGET),  a decentralized options protocol; Corite (CO), a music streaming service; Chain of Alliance (COA), a strategy game; Vault12, a digital asset custody solution; Domenation, a blockchain gaming project.

Chromia

Audius is a decentralized music streaming protocol initially built on POA network, but now living on Solana. Audius was launched to remedy the inefficiencies of the music industry, which is plagued by intransparent music rights ownership and intermediaries standing between artists and their audience.

Audius aims to align the interests of artists, fans, and node operators through its platform powered by its native AUDIO token. Artists can upload music, stored and distributed by content and discovery nodes, that fans can listen to for free. Currently, Audius rewards content creators through rewards like featuring in the weekly trending lists. In the future, it plans to integrate stablecoins for artists to offer paid content, as well as artist tokens that give fans the ability to access exclusive content, potentially cooperating with platforms like Rally.