Introducing Euler
The latest innovation in decentralised finance: a permissionless lending protocol with reactive interest rates to address the long-tail of the crypto market.
Our journey
Euler XYZ started out by winning Encode Club’s ‘Spark’ University Hackathon. In doing so, we beat over 100+ teams from universities across the world to take the prize. You can read more about the hackathon here.
Today, we are delighted to announce that we have closed an $800k seed round led by Lemniscap. The round includes other leading funds LAUNCHub Ventures, CMT Digital, Divergence Ventures, Block0 and Cluster, as well as influential angels Luke Youngblood of Coinbase, Richard Burton and Josh Buckley, CEO of Product Hunt.
Who are we?
Euler XYZ was founded by Dr Michael Bentley (previously post-doc in Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford), Jack Leon Prior (experienced full stack developer) and Doug Hoyte (experienced solidity developer).
We are also very proud to have onboard Mick de Graaf from PieDAO in an advisory capacity.
What is Euler?
Euler protocol builds upon the foundations of other popular money market protocols like Compound and Aave, but allows users to create their own markets for any Ethereum ERC20 token and features innovative reactive interest rate models backed by control theory that reduce the need for governance intervention in rapidly moving markets.
Motivation
Money markets now contribute billions of dollars of total value locked to the burgeoning decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem, allowing users to earn interest on their assets.
However, access remains limited to a handful of money markets for a few of the most liquid assets. Increasing access to money markets for more tokens poses a number of challenges that existing protocols were not designed to address.
Euler is a non-custodial protocol custom-built for the long-tail of the market. Several features set Euler apart from other popular money market protocols.
List any asset: powered by Uniswap’s decentralised time-weighted average price oracles, Euler is allowing users to create their own lending/borrowing markets for almost any Ethereum ERC20 token.
Risk-minimised: Euler secures the protocol by tailoring the borrowing capacity of users to the risk profiles associated with the assets they want to borrow and use as collateral.
Reactive interest rates: interest rate models backed by control theory ensure that money markets on Euler adapt to volatile market conditions in real-time without the need for governance intervention.
The Theory
Aave/Compound interest rates:
Euler interest rates:
EulerDAO powered by EUL
Euler will be governed in the long-term by a decentralised autonomous organisation: EulerDAO. Voting rights will be determined by ownership of a community governance token (EUL). Fees generated by Euler protocol will accrue to EUL token holders. Details of the token supply and distribution will be announced in due course.
Roadmap
We will soon be recruiting engaged community members to help us test an alpha version of the protocol. Details to be released in the coming weeks. Early ambassadors will be rewarded for their participation and feedback with EUL tokens, so keep an eye out!
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Euler V1 will be launched in Q1 2021, once we have collated feedback from the community and secured the necessary code audits.
Come and join the discussion
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Our repos are currently private, but you can also follow us on GitHub.
Get involved
Euler XYZ are always on the lookout for talented individuals to help us grow. Solidity developer? DeFi virtuoso? Governance specialist? Reach out to careers@euler.xyz, we’d love to hear from you.
All the best,
Dr Michael Bentley, CEO
About Euler
Euler is a capital-efficient permissionless lending protocol that helps users to earn interest on their crypto assets or hedge against volatile markets without the need for a trusted third-party. Euler features a number of innovations not seen before in DeFi, including permissionless lending markets, reactive interest rates, protected collateral, MEV-resistant liquidations, multi-collateral stability pools, sub-accounts, risk-adjusted loans, and much more. For more information, visit euler.finance.
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