Aurigami: A Decentralized, Non-Custodial, Native Money Market on Aurora

2022-07-30 08:41:25 By : Ms. Sandy Guo

Founded in late 2021, Aurigami is a decentralized, non-custodial, native money market on Aurora Network, the EVM chain of NEAR Protocol. It enables users to lend, borrow and earn interest with their digital assets in a fun, gamified ecosystem.

Aurigami’s inspiration come from the Japanese word “Origami”, the art of paper folding, which is a fun and creative activity. In Origami, the artist masterfully orchestrates the paper’s movements to create an art piece that is more than the sum of its parts.

Similarly, the team behind Aurigami also wants to do the same for customers’ crypto assets, by allowing them to maximize returns while at the same time making it a fun and interactive experience through gamification.

While depositors provide liquidity to the protocol to earn a passive income, borrowers are able to borrow in an over-collateralized fashion. In addition, Aurigami users may simply deposit assets that support the protocol to generate rates ranging from 8% to 12%.

The Aurigami protocol supports the nine largest assets in the Aurora ecosystem and has already established itself as one of the leading protocols on Aurora with over $900+ million in total value locked.

The protocol supports assets such as ETH, Wrapped BTC, and stablecoins such as USDC and USDT.

Aurigami played a crucial role in identifying and solving a critical gas limit issue that hampered the Aurora network this year. The platform has escaped unscathed from the recent Flux oracle issue that resulted in faulty liquidations, which affected many other protocols.

This was a result of the implementation of the system from the very beginning as the Aurigami team recognized the risks involved in DeFi and was constantly vigilant about staying ahead of the security curve.

The Aurigami native token is $ PLY which aims to incentivize ecosystem participants and share a vision of alignment between various stakeholders within the Aurigami ecosystem.

As such, by holding the token, PLY HODLers (#Papeurhands) also will have the ability to govern the ecosystem.

PLY on Aurora: 0x09c9d464b58d96837f8d8b6f4d9fe4ad408d3a4f

PLY on Ethereum: 0x1ab43204a195a0fd37edec621482afd3792ef90b

A total supply of 10 billion PLY is allocated as follows:

PULP is the biggest USP in the Aurigami protocol, also known as the concept of Liquid Locked Token. PULP is a representation of locked-PLY. By holding PULP, users will be entitled to redeem it for PLY at a later date.

Meanwhile, the locked-PLY or PULP, like other liquid tokens, is free to be traded or exchanged for other digital assets which makes PULP a “liquid-locked-token” (LLT).

In the past, some protocols have successfully enabled liquidity for locked, vesting assets through the use of financial NFTs.

There was a demand that the need to accommodate a slew of parameters warrants the use of NFTs, which are capable of being encoded with complex information that otherwise cannot be achieved with the usual ERC-20 tokens.

On the other hand, Aurigami’s PULP was able to be devised as an ERC-20 token to represent locked-PLY, allowing the team to approach liquid locked tokens in a simple way.

Aurigami pioneered the Liquid Locked Tokens (LLT). Distributing a combination of LLTs (i.e. PULP) and the underlying protocol tokens (i.e. PLY) in liquidity mining disincentivizes the typical “farm and dump” approach adopted by mercenary capital.

As a result, this allows protocols to align their long-term interests with their users.

The market for PULP and PLY will be governed by Game Theory, where users are empowered to employ investment strategies as they feel suitable. Buyers will be able to enter long-term positions in PLY at a discount through PULP, while PULP owners can sell off in exchange for immediate liquidity.

Moreover, the prolonged release of PLY into circulation also helps to distribute the selling pressure that plagues a lot of incentive programs, opening up speculations for savvy investors.

LLT is a new design that can solve a point that early liquidity mining programs failed to address. Being similar to veTokens, LLT is what protocols can incorporate to align long-term interests between users and protocol.

There are already many cases when OTC deals are made between protocol treasuries and investors involving a discount on the token, in exchange for a fixed lock-up period where the underlying token cannot trade.

The mechanics of LLTs mimic this exactly which is expected to allow the potential for future deals in the emerging crypto industry.

In order to interact with Aurigami, first of all, users deposit their preferred assets supported by the protocol. This not only enables users to interest-earning based on the market borrowing demand, but users also use deposited assets as collaterals to borrow other assets.

In that, interest earned from deposited assets will help offset the accumulated interest from borrowing.

Users can withdraw assets as long as those funds are not actively being used to borrow and withdrawal of those assets would not cause a liquidation of their loans.

Compared to its competitors, the Aurigami protocol offers a smooth and simple UI to make depositing and borrowing more easier for users.

Also, its yield farming is one of the highest rates of deposit and lowest rates of borrowing on Aurora. Any developer on Aurora can use Aurigami as a building block for their product by accessing its liquidity.

Nicholas Say was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has traveled extensively, lived in Uruguay for many years, and currently resides in the Far East. His writing can be found all over the web, with special emphasis placed on realistic development, and the next generation of human technology.

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