The Basics

The goal of Tetrad Protocol is to create investor-friendly financial products aimed at incentivizing long-standing investments and defending investors from bad actors and unnecessary market risk

What is Tetrad Protocol?

The world of crypto and decentralized finance is enormous and growing exponentially. New projects and opportunities pop up every day on an ever-growing number of networks. For those that know where to look, and what to look for, the growth potential for an investment can be 100x greater. However, the risk to lose it all is also present as well if not careful and informed. With this in mind, we offer Tetrad Protocol.

Others will tell you that smart contracts are trustless and eliminate counterparty risk: that is simply not the case. Smart contracts are, themselves, the counterparty in DeFi. It can be incredibly hard to know if the action you are taking in DeFi is a safe and profitable one even if you can read the code in a smart contract. Since most investors cannot, what chance do they have in the long-run?

Tetrad Protocol puts the expertise and skills of a team of traders, risk managers, and developers to work protecting your investments. By aggregating the power of our token holders we are able to use the profits the protocol is generating to have developers on-hand to review the smart contract code of potential investments and trade opportunities whereas the lone investor on their own will neither have the time nor the expertise to reliably profit without errors eating into and eliminating any profitability.

The Problem

Simply put, cryptocurrency has a steep learning curve and being a successful investor requires substantial time viewing charts and imposes significant stress. The problem we solve in decentralized finance is aggregating the investment power of the average DeFi investor and protecting them from counterparty risk.

Our protocol empowers the average DeFi investor to sidestep counterparty risk.

The Vaults

The Vaults, Tetrad Protocol's MVP (minimally viable product), are smart contracts that keep track of deposits, withdrawals and the profit to which investors are entitled. The Vaults reflect an essential piece in our desire to create a safe and effective business-viable product. Bots buy and sell based on the algorithmic trading strategies devised by our team experts Justin Wise and Alexander Pearson.

The Vaults make the investor's life simpler and will ensure that investors continually understand and can keep tabs on the value within the Protocol. Our team designed the Vaults this way because it is simply too risky to have money sitting around in contract on chain. So rather than leaving the money on the blockchain, we bring the funds through a well funded, verified proof of reserves centralized exchange (CEX) temporarily while the algorithmic strategies are executed. This achieves a reduction in both the costs and risks associated with on chain trading.

Through the evolution of DeFi, many have learned the hard way that it is easy to have money stolen if it is left on chain as opposed to briefly through a solvent centralized exchange.

The money invested in The Vaults remain the investor's money. With the click of a button, investors will be able to request their money back using our simple, user-friendly interface.

Products in Development

Protocol-Owned Liquidity- POLs are assets that are maintained in the protocol's treasury. POLs will be used to generate more yield and more profit for investors in the platform itself. This will include a treasury where funds will be placed in various yield farms and applied for a variety of trade activities.

TRADE token- Simply put, the investors buy the TRADE token and our DeFi analysts work 24/7 to trade, stake, farm & yield on the investor's behalf. In technical terms, we will be issuing a pre-mined, non-inflationary token through the instant bonding process, originated by Olympus DAO and Multi-Chain Capital. What does that mean? Given that the tokens are pre-mined, all of the supply will come into existence upon the release of the token (TGE-token generation event). This allows investors have a constant sense of the system's value within the system as well as an understanding of the scarcity of their investment. For more on this, check out our Tokenomics.

Investor Dashboard - An investor dashboard will provide an avenue to for investors to understand what the total value locked is within the protocol and follow their rewards live.

Perpetual Swap Exchange - This financial instrument is a particular type of futures exchange that provides for an easier method of trading. Grants access to leverage, another road to profitability for investors.

Delta Neutral Strategies - A market-agnostic trading strategy that will be added to the algorithmic Vaults. Our delta neutral strategy will be utilizing strategies from basis.markets, which provide funding rate information.

DeFi lending- OPEN

Algorithmic marketplace- Vetted, Tested, Reviewed & Audited Algorithms