## What Is Meta (MTA)?

Meta (MTA) and mStable ([MUSD](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mstable-usd/)) are parts of an autonomous, non-custodial stablecoin infrastructure that is designed to provide a decentralized finance ([DeFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/defi/)) platform and a base layer collateral protocol on which DeFi applications can be built. mStable is a meta-asset platform with an aim of creating assets that are better than the sum of their parts. 

The Meta (MTA) token is mStable’s protocol token and has three functions: coordination of decentralized governance, incentivization of bootstrapping of mAsset liquidity and utility and empowerment of a decentralized community of Governors. 

As such, Meta governs mStable, and each system parameter is determined by the users. To participate in the governance, the users have to stake MTA and vote on the proposals, thereby becoming a Meta Governor.


### Who Are the Founders of Meta?

mStable was co-founded by James Simpson and Henrik Andersson. 

James Simpson is the CEO of mStable. He has also worked as an investment analyst at Apollo Capital.

Henrik Andersson is the lead advisor at mStable. He is also and an advisor at Meld Gold and the CIO of Apollo Capital.

Simpson and Andersson met at Apollo Capital, and, after participating in several stablecoin and lending platform projects, they started work on uniting lending, swapping and saving into a single standard. Their goal was to remove points of friction encountered by the users of existing stablecoins. This project eventually became mStable. 


#### What Makes Meta Unique?

mStable provides a stablecoin liquidity pool, or, in other words, a noncustodial smart contract that allows deposits of whitelisted stablecoins. 

SWAP addresses the issue of liquidity across different stablecoins and assets, and the MUSD token is redeemable for any underlying asset at a 1:1 ratio, regardless of its price. This way, zero slippage occurs, and there’s an implementation of a straight-line bonding curve which generates a large swap volume from users that are arbitraging the price difference.

SAVE solves the issue of yield by offering a high annual percentage yield (APY). Holding MUSD allows users to access the MUSD high savings rate, which is a combination of interests that are gained by the automatic lending of the underlying assets to Save and Compound.

MINT facilitates the minting of MUSD, which is necessary to address mStable’s high APY. There are 14 million stablecoins that have generated 40 million MUSD which is the collateral behind the circulating supply.

EARN motivates users to contribute to MUSD liquidity through DeFi. Its goal is to make MUSD a lot more useful and liquid. To do this efficiently, mStable distributes MTA.

mStable increases the liquidity by pooling participants from different asset markets, improves safety through spreading the risk of different pegging mechanisms and reduces the congestion by inviting liquidity into the system through incentives.


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Increase your knowledge of cryptocurrencies on the [CoinMarketCap blog](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog).


#### How Many Meta (MTA) Coins Are There in Circulation?

As of March 2021, Meta (MTA) has a circulating supply of 17,336,544 tokens and a maximum supply of 100,000,000 MTA.


### How Is the Meta Network Secured?

mStable keeps the network secure through a multi-faceted approach. There is a macro-level architecture with a robust governance decentralization plan and a micro-level architecture where code formatting, documentation, testing procedures and auditing play vital roles.

There is also an open reward pool for the discovery and reporting of vulnerabilities found within the mStable protocol.


### Where Can You Buy Meta (MTA)?

Meta (MTA) can be bought and sold on the following exchanges:



*   [Huobi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/huobi-global/) 
*   [Bitribe](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitribe/)
*   [ZT](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/zt/)
*   [WBF Exchange](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/wbf-exchange/)

You can learn everything you need to know about buying Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies [here.](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/)


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Opium is a new platform for launching and trading cryptocurrency derivatives.

Having begun operations in May 2020, Opium uses Ethereum to run a decentralized derivatives marketplace in which any cryptocurrency owner can participate.

The aim of the platform is to democratize access to financial derivatives while using the benefits that decentralization affords traders over legacy alternatives.

Opium’s in-house token, OPIUM, launched in January 2021 and will fulfil various roles mostly centered around platform governance. Active users will be able to vote on some of the most important decisions involved in the platform’s operations.

Opium

Carbon Protocol

Ampleforth is an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency with an algorithmically adjusted circulating supply. It is designed to be the base money of the new decentralized economy, by providing an asset that cannot be diluted by supply inflation and remains decoupled to the price action of other cryptocurrencies—and Bitcoin (BTC) in particular.

With Ampleforth, token holders own a fixed fraction of the total AMPL circulating supply, rather than a fixed number of tokens. When the protocol detects that the price of AMPL is too high, it increases the circulating supply, whereas the supply is decreased if the price is too low.

This change is propagated to all Ampleforth wallets, which have their wallet balance adjusted proportionally. Irrespective of this change, AMPL holders will still retain the same percentage of the token supply.

This automatic supply adjustment process is known as a “rebase” and occurs once each day, with a positive rebase if the price goes above $1.06, and a negative rebase if it is below $0.96. The overall goal of the system is to create incentives that drive the market price of AMPL back to ~$1.

Ampleforth

saffron.finance

Hifi (formerly Mainframe) is a Lending Protocol that allows anyone to borrow against their crypto. Hifi uses a bond-like instrument, representing an on-chain obligation that settles on a specific future date. Buying and selling the tokenized debt enables fixed-rate, fixed term lending and borrowing — something much needed in decentralized finance today. It is anticipated that a ticker symbol change will occur alongside future iterations on the Hifi Lending Protocol.

Mainframe Token (MFT) is the native utility token that is used for:

Governance votes

Staking to ensure the safety of the protocol

Rewarding contributors to the ecosystem

What can you do with the Hifi Lending Protocol:

Borrow:  Lock collateral in a vault to mint fixed-rate, fixed-term debt tokens.  These debt tokens can be swapped for instant liquidity allowing users to leverage long, yield farm, or pursue other strategic trades without selling their collateral tokens.

Lend:  Buy fixed-rate, fixed-term debt tokens for a discount.  When the term expires they can be redeemed for face value, earning lenders a predictable return on their investment.

Provide Liquidity:  Earn trading fees by providing liquidity between debt tokens and stablecoins on an Automated Market Maker (AMM).

Mainframe

xDai is a cryptocurrency that is pegged to the US dollar. The xDai chain is a stable payment blockchain that is designed for fast and inexpensive transactions. STAKE is secured by proof-of-stake consensus. xDai was founded on Oct. 1, 2018.

STAKE is a multi-chain staking token that is designed to secure the payment layer. Staking allows validators and delegators to provide transaction consensus and receive staking incentives for block production. It is only required for consensus providers, not everyday on-chain transactions.

xDai was created by the POA Network, an open-source public side-chain of Ethereum founded in April 2017. It offers a framework for smart contracts which provides developers with an easy and effective way to code on Ethereum, while also leveraging the POA Network capabilities.

STAKE

NEST Protocol

Handshake is a decentralized permissionless system that is intended to incentivize a distributed network of computers to operate a system for domain name ownership.

Under Handshake, every peer is tasked with validating and managing the root DNS naming zone, with the objective of providing an alternative to current certificate authorities and naming systems.

Different participants across the internet such as social networking handles and domains rely on a centralized approach. This means the systems depend on a system of honesty — and are still prone to cyber attacks and fraud.

Handshake aims to eradicate this problem by creating a decentralized internet that relies on a peer-to-peer system.

Handshake

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

Augur

dForce

MIR is the governance token of Mirror Protocol, a synthetic assets protocol built by Terraform Labs (TFL) on the Terra blockchain.

Mirror Protocol is decentralized from day 1, with the on-chain treasury and code changes governed by holders of the MIR token. TFL has no intention of keeping or selling MIR tokens, and there are no admin keys or special access privileges granted. The intent for this is to be a completely decentralized, community-driven project.

Mirrored assets are blockchain tokens that behave like "mirror" versions of real-world assets by reflecting the exchange prices on-chain. They give traders the price exposure to real assets while enabling fractional ownership, open access and censorship resistance as any other cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional tokens which serve to represent a real, underlying asset, mAssets are purely synthetic and only capture the price movement of the corresponding asset.

Mirrored assets provide the following advantages:

Global Accessibility: In most markets outside of Europe & North America, access to foreign equities and forex markets is highly limited. Crypto allows global accessibility without entry barriers.

Fractional Orders: In traditional finance, to execute a fractional order, multiple fractional orders are bundled together to execute a unitary transaction. The process of gathering all the orders into one requires additional waiting time. By utilizing the blockchain, orders volume is simply represented as a number on the blockchain, so there is no need for the intermediary bundling process.

Nearly-Instantaneous Order Execution: Oftentimes due to the lack of liquidity (price-time-priority order book algorithm), orders can take up to a day to fully execute. Given the fact that Mirror relies on liquidity provided by each individual asset pool, orders can be executed as fast as the blocktime of the network (~ 6 seconds).

Mirror Protocol

StaFi

WOM Protocol

AirSwap

Oxen (formerly known as LOKI) is a privacy tech project with a mission. It’s a private cryptocurrency with instant transactions. An enormous and powerful PoS network. A secure messaging platform. A network anonymity layer. Tools to build a more private future for the Internet — all on blockchain.

Our vision is to provide a range of tools and services powered by the OXEN coin, enabling users and developers all over the world to leverage the power of our decentralised blockchain network to achieve unparalleled privacy and security as they work, play, and live their day-to-day lives on the internet. And this isn’t just an empty vision — we've put in the hard yards and spent years building these technologies to make our vision a reality.

The Oxen privacy stack includes:

Session, a fully anonymous, totally decentralised encrypted messaging platform

Lokinet, a powerful low-latency onion router

Oxen Name System (ONS), a registration system that allows users to provably burn OXEN to purchase temporary or permanent usernames for Session (and Oxen wallets), and domain names for Lokinet services

The Oxen coin is used for:

Staking to run Oxen Service Nodes

Purchasing name registrations for Lokinet (our onion router) and Session (our private messenger)

Transferring value through instant, private transactions with our revolutionary Blink transaction tech

Oxen

Kava Lend is a decentralized money market built on the Kava Platform that enables the lending and borrowing of cross-chain assets. Kava Lend supports supply-side deposits for BTC, XRP, BNB, BUSD, and USDX. The platform will allow overcollateralized borrowing for supported assets.

Kava Lend

C.R.E.A.M Finance is a decentralized  DeFi lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. Part of the yearn.finance ecosystem, C.R.E.A.M. Finance is a permissionless, open source and blockchain agnostic protocol serving users on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain Polygon and Fantom.

Users who are passively holding Ether or wBTC can deposit their assets on C.R.E.A.M. to earn yield, similar to a traditional savings account. For more information visit https://app.cream.finance/.

The C.R.E.A.M. Finance protocol was created as a Compound Finance fork.

C.R.E.A.M Finance is open-source, permissionless, blockchain-agnostic and offers yield farming rewards to its users in order to inclusively develop its network.

The project (which stands for Crypto Runs Everything Around Me) was launched unexpectedly on the Ethereum network on Aug. 3, 2020 through the YOLO liquidity pool. In September 2020 it went live on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

The CREAM token allows users to lend, borrow, stake assets and help govern the network, allowing them to vote on assets to support or delist.

Cream Finance

BarnBridge, founded in 2019, is a protocol for tokenizing risks. It was launched in September 2020. BarnBridge is a sort of decentralized finance (DeFi) lego for creating tradeable tokens that expose a consumer to market volatility. As of March 2021, the platform is still in an early stage of launch.

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

BarnBridge is a project that expands the functionality of DeFi to make it more flexible and efficient. By tokenizing market fluctuations and exposure to risks, it can reduce volatility for conservative investors or increase it for daytraders. BarnBridge enables traditional risk management tools and fixed income instruments on the DeFi market. The main focus is dividing cryptocurrency risks into tranches so market participants, depending on their risk profile, can invest in different products or assets.