## Что такое DODO?

DODO — это китайский протокол [децентрализованного финансирования $DeFi$](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-decentralized-finance) и поставщик ликвидности сети, чей уникальный алгоритм проактивного маркетмейкера направлен на обеспечение большей ликвидности и стабильности цен по сравнению с [автоматическими маркетмейкерами $AMM$](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/automated-market-maker-amm).

Механизм ценообразования PMM, который имитирует свойственный человеку подход к трейдингу, использует [оракулы](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/oracles-in-defi-101-a-deep-dive-by-tellor) для сбора высокоточных рыночных цен на активы. Затем он обеспечивает достаточную ликвидность, близкую к этим ценам, чтобы стабилизировать портфели [поставщиков ликвидности](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/liquidity-provider) $LP$, снизить отклонения цен и устранить [непостоянные потери](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/impermanent-loss) путем разрешения арбитражной торговли в качестве вознаграждения.

DODO также предоставляет новым криптопроектам бесплатный [листинг ICO](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico) через свое первичное предложение DODO $Initial DODO Offering, IDO$, которое требует, чтобы эмитенты депонировали только свои собственные токены.

Смарт\-контракт DODO работает как токен стандарта [ERC20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) в сети [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/currencies/ethereum/).

### Кто создал DODO?

Dodo был официально [запущен в августе 2020 года](https://medium.com/dodoex/dodo-a-revolution-in-on-chain-liquidity-7bc339b9d391), его основали [Дайан Дай](https://twitter.com/diane_0320?lang=en) $Diane Dai$, [Radar Bear](https://twitter.com/bear_radar) и анонимная команда разработчиков. Первоначально он привлек 600 000 долларов в ходе посевного раунда, который провела компания Framework Ventures.

В сентябре 2020 года команда объявила, что успешно завершила дополнительный раунд финансирования через частные продажи с привлечением 5 миллионов долларов, который возглавили Pantera Capital, [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/binance/) Labs и Three Arrows Capital.

Раунд частных продаж также привлек инвестиции от нескольких других известных компаний в сфере венчурного капитала, криптовалютных бирж и торговых фирм, среди которых Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, CMS Holdings и Alameda Research.

### Что особенного в DODO?

DODO позиционирует себя как один из наиболее конкурентоспособных поставщиков ликвидности, который предлагает очень низкие комиссии за транзакции и низкое отклонение цен за счет своего алгоритм PMM, впервые предложенного в апреле 2020 года.

Команда утверждает, что их алгоритм PMM обеспечивает более точные цены, чем их AMM конкурент [Uniswap](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/uniswap-v2/) за счет уплощения кривой цен.

PMM привлекает средства с ценами близкими к рыночным, чтобы обеспечить достаточную ликвидность, которая быстро падает по мере того, как цена отклоняется от рыночной цены. DODO автоматически корректирует рыночные цены, чтобы привлечь арбитраж, который помогает сохранить стабильность портфелей поставщиков ликвидности.

Таким образом обеспечивается более выгодное ценообразование, более эффективное использование средств, снижение отклонения цен и единовременной подверженности риску, а также устраняются непостоянные убытки [$подробнее здесь$](https://dodoex.github.io/docs/docs/advantages).

Для трейдеров DODO предлагает достаточную ликвидность, сравнимую с ликвидностью централизованных бирж $CEX$, которая может быть изначально использована смарт\-контрактами для транзакций внутри сети, таких как ликвидация и аукционы. Арбитражеры также могут сделать прибыль на разнице цен между DODO и другими биржами.

Провайдеры ликвидности не обязаны вносить минимальный депозит и не ограничены типом предоставляемых активов. Провайдеры ликвидности $LP$ могут создавать свои собственные торговые пары, депонировать собственные токены, чтобы устранить ценовой риск, а также получать часть комиссий за транзакции DODO в качестве вознаграждения.

DODO также привлекает новые криптопроекты бесплатным листингом в качестве первичного предложения DODO $IDO$. В отличие от протоколов AMM, DODO не запрашивает токены котировок, а проектам IDO необходимо только депонировать свои собственные токены в пул ликвидности, после чего PMM создает свою собственную глубину спроса. Чтобы запустить IDO, проекту нужно всего лишь установить постоянную цену оракула. Ликвидность повышается за счет внесения большего количества токенов котировок.

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Узнайте больше о [Curve $CRV$](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/curve-finance/).

В [блоге CoinMarketCap](https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/) всегда актуальные тренды и инсайты рынка криптовалют.

Ознакомьтесь с [калькулятором непостоянных потерь](https://coinmarketcap.com/yield-farming/) CMC.

#### Сколько монет DODO $DODO$ находится в обращении?

Общий объем выпуска токенов DODO составляет 1 миллиард $1 000 000 000$. В настоящее время в обращении находится 12 миллионов монет.

Общее количество токенов DODO будет распределено следующим образом:

* 15 % основной команде, будущим сотрудникам и советникам;
* 16 % инвесторам;
* 1 % на первичное обеспечение ликвидности $IDO$;
* 8 % на операционную деятельность, маркетинг и партнерства;
* 60 % на стимулирование сообщества.

#### Как обеспечивается безопасность сети DODO?

DODO — это децентрализованный протокол, устойчивый к централизованным сетевым атакам, полагающийся на единую точку отказа $single point of failure$. Смарт\-контракты DODO были проверены 10 июля 2020 года компанией [PeckShield](https://peckshield.cn/en), специализирующейся на блокчейн\-безопасности. С ее аудиторским отчетом по DODO можно ознакомиться [здесь](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DODOEX/dodo-smart-contract/master/audit/dodo_audit_report_2020_16_en_1.0.pdf).

Помните, что протоколы DeFi являются инновационными проектами с высоким риском и поэтому подвержены ошибкам кодирования и проблемам безопасности, которые могут быть использованы хакерами и привести к потере средств.

### Где купить DODO $DODO$?

DODO теперь можно торговать на централизованных биржах [MXC.com](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/mxc/), [L Bank](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/lbank/) и [BiKi](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/biki/), а также на [децентрализованных биржах $DEX$](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-exchange-dex), таких как [Uniswap V2](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/uniswap/), [Mooniswap](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/mooniswap/) и [Dodo](https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/exchanges/dodo/). Вы можете найти другие биржи на нашей [странице криптобирж](https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/).

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DODO

HyperPay

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

Binance Chain Wallet

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

UNUS SED LEO

Uniswap

Stargate Finance

Node AI

Kyber Network Crystal v2

Orbs

Nexera

Heroes of Mavia

Dogelon Mars

Bounce Token

Ankr Staked ETH

Smart Reward Token

X2Y2

Spectra Chain

Olympus v2

Osaka Protocol

The 1inch Network unites decentralized protocols whose synergy enables the most lucrative, fastest, and protected operations in the DeFi space.

The 1inch Network's first protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator solution that searches deals across multiple liquidity sources, offering users better rates than any individual exchange. The 1inch Aggregation Protocol incorporates the Pathfinder algorithm for finding the best paths across over 400+ liquidity sources on 12 chains: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum, Fantom, Gnosis Chain, Klaytn, Aurora, zkSync and Base.

In just over two years the 1inch DEX aggregator has reached 1M users and surpassed $150B in overall volume on the Ethereum network alone.

The 1inch Limit Order Protocol facilitates the most innovative and flexible limit order swap opportunities in DeFi. The protocol’s features, such as dynamic pricing, conditional orders, and extra RFQ support, power various implementations, including stop-loss and trailing stop orders, as well as auctions.

The 1inch Wallet is a multichain mobile platform that provides an easy-to-navigate interface with secure storing, transaction, and staking capabilities. This versatile wallet was built from the ground up to streamline interacting with 1inch’s features.

The 1INCH token is the governance and utility token of the 1inch Network. 1INCH holders can stake their tokens to participate in the 1inch Network's DAO governance, including the 1inch DAO Treasury management. Also, holders can choose resolvers and earn a part of their fees.

With the 1inch Fusion, users can stake 1INCH tokens to receive Unicorn Power (UP), then subsequently delegate their UP to any 1inch Fusion Resolver to start receiving rewards from them. When staking, there is the option to set a custom or preset lock period. User’s st1INCH tokens cannot be unstaked/withdrawn without penalty until the designated lock period expires.

In December 2020, 1inch raised $12 million in Series A funding, led by Pantera Capital, with others including ParaFi Capital, Blockchain Capital, Nima Capital, and Spartan Group. The funding round was conducted through a SAFT (simple agreement for future tokens) sale.

In December 2021, 1inch has closed a $175 million Series B round, led by Amber Group. Among about 50 investors that participated in the funding event are Jane Street, VanEck, Fenbushi Capital, Alameda Research, Celsius, Nexo, Tribe Capital and Gemini Frontier Fund.

1inch Network

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

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

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

Alien Worlds (TLM) is a decentralized, non-fungible token (NFT) metaverse, where players compete for scarce resources, Trilium (TLM), in a stimulated economy centered around planetary worlds. Due to this, Alien Worlds also has a decentralized finance (DeFi) element to the game, as players advance by staking TLM and using TLM to vote in Planet Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

Play-to-earn (P2E) NFT games have seen an exponential rise in popularity and value this year. Alien Worlds allow the players, called “explorers” to earn monetary rewards through gameplay or participation in Planet DAOs. By mining in Alien Worlds, a user is rewarded with the native, in-game currency — Trilium (TLM) or NFT packs. Players can stake TLM to boost their rewards or battle with other users for NFTs.

To date, Alien Worlds has established a fair amount of its roadmap, having TLM on Binance launchpad and farming period of TLM on Binance Launchpool. A large portion of game developments have been forged as well. Moving forward, Alien Worlds aims to automate the claiming process of daily allocation to landowners in the game. Artifacts NFTs are soon to be released, and future plans include NFT interoperability.

Alien Worlds

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

Litentry

Ontology is a project designed to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. It is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.

The Ontology blockchain is a high speed, low cost public blockchain. It is designed to bring decentralized identity and data solutions to Web3, with the goal of increasing privacy, transparency, and trust. To achieve this, users and enterprises are provided with the flexibility to build blockchain-based solutions that suit their needs, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Through Ontology’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Ontology ensures frictionless compatibility with Ethereum, the first step in the creation of the Ontology Multi-Virtual Machine and further interoperability for the chain.

At its launch, Ontology chose to forego the popular initial coin offering (ICO) model in favor of a series of community distributions and airdrops of its ONT cryptocurrency.

This helped to quickly establish both organic price discovery and a passionate community and helped the project to avoid subsequent regulatory scrutiny.

For example, for a brief period any person who signed up for the Ontology newsletter received an airdrop of free 1,000 ONT, which reached a value of $10 per token soon after the token became listed on major exchanges like Binance.

Ontology launched its own MainNet on June 30, 2018 and has been up and running smoothly since.

Ontology

Ethereum-based DYDX ($ethDYDX) is a governance token that allows the dYdX community to truly govern the dYdX Layer 2 Protocol built on Ethereum ("dYdX v3"). ethDYDX is currently undergoing a migration from Ethereum to the dYdX Chain. More information is available here. If you want to migrate ethDYDX to dYdX Chain DYDX, to enable staking, security and governance of the dYdX Chain you can follow the how-to-bridge guide here.

If you want to read about the new token utility for dYdX Chain DYDX you can read the blog here

ethDYDX (dYdX) is the governance token for the layer 2 protocol built on Ethereum. By enabling shared control of dYdX v3, ethDYDX allows traders, liquidity providers, and partners of dYdX to work collectively towards an enhanced dYdX v3.

Built on StarkWare’s StarkEx scalability engine, layer 2 is used for trading of cross-margined perpetuals on the platform. The scaling solution allows dYdX to increase transaction speed, eliminate gas costs, reduce trading fees and lower​​ minimum trade sizes on the protocol.

A total of 1,000,000,000 ethDYDX have been minted, and started to become accessible over five (5) years, on August 3rd, 2021, at 15:00:00 UTC.

dYdX (ethDYDX)

My Neighbor Alice is a farming-themed play-to-earn builder game built on Chromia. The game bills itself as a place where “players can buy and own virtual islands, collect and build exciting items while also making new friends.” Each player has their own avatar representing them in the game, which they can modify as they please. Players can buy virtual real estate from Alice, the game’s eponymous central figure, or the internal marketplace. All purchased land is represented as an NFT.

My Neighbor Alice aims to introduce blockchain to millions of players and targets a diverse gaming community within the traditional gaming market. Although the game is blockchain-based and integrates DeFi features, it does not require prior knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain. My Neighbor Alice takes inspiration from several popular sources. For instance, daily in-game tasks and social aspects are inspired by Animal Crossing, whereas Minecraft serves as a role model for building mechanics. The artwork was inspired by the Swedish children’s book Pettson and Findus.

MyNeighborAlice

Flow

SushiSwap (SUSHI) is an example of an automated market maker (AMM). An increasingly popular tool among cryptocurrency users, AMMs are decentralized exchanges which use smart contracts to create markets for any given pair of tokens.

SushiSwap launched in September 2020 as a fork of Uniswap, the AMM which has become synonymous with the decentralized finance (DeFi) movement and associated trading boom in DeFi tokens.

SushiSwap aims to diversify the AMM market and also add additional features not previously present on Uniswap, such as increased rewards for network participants via its in-house token, SUSHI.

SushiSwap

Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contributing to customizable liquidity pools.

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

The protocol operates a few types of pools:

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.

Balancer

SafePal is a cryptocurrency wallet launched in 2018 that helps users to protect and grow their digital assets. SafePal provides hardware and software wallets, all paired and managed through the SafePal App and was the first hardware wallet invested in and backed by Binance.

SafePal wallet supports numerous popular crypto-assets, in addition to popular tokens on the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC)and TRON blockchains. Users can store, manage, swap, trade and grow their portfolio without compromising asset security, according to SafePal.

Since its launch in 2018, SafePal has grown exponentially and has over 3,000,000 users in 196 countries globally. More information can be found in the SafePal Official Website.

SafePal

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

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

Celer is a blockchain interoperability
protocol enabling a one-click user experience accessing tokens, DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, governance, and more across multiple chains. Developers can build inter-chain-native Dapps using the Celer Inter-chain Messaging Framework to gain access to efficient liquidity utilization, coherent application logic, and shared states. Users of Celer-enabled dApps will enjoy the benefits of a diverse multi-blockchain ecosystem with the simplicity of a single-transaction UX, all from a single chain.

Celer Network

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.

Launched in September 2020, BakeryToken (BAKE) is a part of the BakerySwap ecosystem. Liquidity providers are rewarded with BAKE tokens which can be used to earn a share of BakerySwap’s trading fees and to participate in voting as part of BakerySwap’s governance process.

BakerySwap is a decentralized automated market-making (AMM) protocol that is based on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). The BAKE token is a native BEP-20 governance token on the platform.

Users have the ability to earn BAKE tokens by providing liquidity on BakerySwap, and BAKE holders can use their tokens for governance voting and to receive transaction fee dividends. The BAKE rewards are offered in several liquidity pools, initially including BTC, ETH, DOT, LINK, BUSD and BAKE versus BNB.

BakeryToken

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

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

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.