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[GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Feb. 13, 2023, 9:56 p.m.
Content: I was sent the google form to fill out through one of the chats we are in. It is the same as the previous one though.
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[GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Feb. 13, 2023, 4:56 p.m.
Content: I was sent the google form to fill out through one of the chats we are in. It is the same as the previous one though.
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Infrastructure & Dependencies nominations for RPGF2
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Jan. 31, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
Content: The project name: Resonate A description of how the project has supported development and usage of the OP Stack: Resonate is helping mature DeFi by offering a financial product which appeals to institutions. The way in which we achieve this is two-fold: First, we use Revest FNFTs (also developed by us) to tokenize locked principal and future yield. Next, we build ERC- 4626 adapters (if need be) for existing farms for Resonate to plug into. These 4626 adapters are rigorously tested and subsequently released as public goods. Follow our progress on this initiative by checking out these Medium articles: ERC- 4626 Vault Adapters Resonate Vaultening Update 1 Resonate Vaultening Update 2 Users are, then, able to trade their future yield for yield upfront by locking their principal for a term, while the counter-party is able to earn a boosted yield rate by earning the variable yield on the aforementioned locked principal. So far, we’ve found a great deal of success with Velodrome on some of our VELO-USDC pools. For example: Resonate has had over $ 100 k in volume. It offers 4 . 57 % upfront on VELO-USDC for a lock term of 30 days ( 55 . 6 % annualized). Resonate is able to offer short-term lock-ups and rolling maturities thanks to Revest FNFTs. Furthermore, Resonate offers zero-slippage trades due to our order-book-like system. So how does this appeal to institutions? Well, in industries as volatile as crypto, market-neutral hedge funds have proven to be one of the most secure ways to invest in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). These investment vehicles function by both longing and shorting an asset (market neutrality) and then earn their investors returns by placing the longed asset into a yield-bearing position (“yield farm”), where it accrues interest and grows in value. This growth, however, does not occur at a predictable rate, often deviating heavily within short time-frames. This volatility in yield rates make it very difficult for market-neutral funds to succeed, as fixed-costs to open a position can quickly overshadow these variable returns, leaving the fund net-negative. Resonate is able to the perfect solution here: short-term lock and immediate upfront fixed-rates! As a matter of fact, we’ve already seen success in our pursuit of on-boarding institutions to DeFi. This medium illustrates one such example: Resonate Onboards First Institutional Fund: Coindex Capital Management | by Revest Finance | Medium. :heavy_check_mark: Building financial tools and products on top of existing systems on Optimism :heavy_check_mark: Developing ERC- 4626 adapters for existing yield farms on Optimism :heavy_check_mark: On-boarding Institutions to Optimism Links and contact GitHub: Revest Protocol · GitHub Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance Contact info for the project or project lead: rob@revest.finance
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Infrastructure & Dependencies nominations for RPGF2
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Jan. 31, 2023, 8:15 a.m.
Content: The project name: Resonate
A description of how the project has supported development and usage of the OP Stack:
Resonate is helping mature DeFi by offering a financial product which appeals to institutions. The way in which we achieve this is two-fold: First, we use Revest FNFTs (also developed by us) to tokenize locked principal and future yield. Next, we build ERC- 4626 adapters (if need be) for existing farms for Resonate to plug into. These 4626 adapters are rigorously tested and subsequently released as public goods. Follow our progress on this initiative by checking out these Medium articles:
ERC- 4626 Vault Adapters
Resonate Vaultening Update 1
Resonate Vaultening Update 2
Users are, then, able to trade their future yield for yield upfront by locking their principal for a term, while the counter-party is able to earn a boosted yield rate by earning the variable yield on the aforementioned locked principal. So far, we’ve found a great deal of success with Velodrome on some of our VELO-USDC pools. For example: Resonate has had over $ 100 k in volume. It offers 4 . 57 % upfront on VELO-USDC for a lock term of 30 days ( 55 . 6 % annualized).
Resonate is able to offer short-term lock-ups and rolling maturities thanks to Revest FNFTs. Furthermore, Resonate offers zero-slippage trades due to our order-book-like system.
So how does this appeal to institutions? Well, in industries as volatile as crypto, market-neutral hedge funds have proven to be one of the most secure ways to invest in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). These investment vehicles function by both longing and shorting an asset (market neutrality) and then earn their investors returns by placing the longed asset into a yield-bearing position (“yield farm”), where it accrues interest and grows in value. This growth, however, does not occur at a predictable rate, often deviating heavily within short time-frames. This volatility in yield rates make it very difficult for market-neutral funds to succeed, as fixed-costs to open a position can quickly overshadow these variable returns, leaving the fund net-negative. Resonate is able to the perfect solution here: short-term lock and immediate upfront fixed-rates!
As a matter of fact, we’ve already seen success in our pursuit of on-boarding institutions to DeFi. This medium illustrates one such example: Resonate Onboards First Institutional Fund: Coindex Capital Management | by Revest Finance | Medium.
:heavy_check_mark: Building financial tools and products on top of existing systems on Optimism
:heavy_check_mark: Developing ERC- 4626 adapters for existing yield farms on Optimism
:heavy_check_mark: On-boarding Institutions to Optimism
Links and contact
GitHub: Revest Protocol · GitHub
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance
Contact info for the project or project lead: rob@revest.finance
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[DRAFT] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate (Post-Launch Resubmission) [ARCHIVED ORIGINAL]
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Dec. 6, 2022, 5:48 p.m.
Content: Project name: Resonate Author name and contact info (please provide a reliable point of contact for the project): Rob Montgomery Telegram: RobAnon I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: [Yes/No] Yes L 2 recipient address: resurgens.eth Which Voting Cycle are you applying for?: Cycle 10 Grant category: (DeFi, NFT, Tooling, Other) DeFi Is this proposal applicable to a specific committee? (If so, please link to committee) This proposal falls within DeFi committees Project description (please explain how your project works): Resonate powers the sale of futures for on-chain yield rates. Through connecting institutional funds with protocol treasuries, institutional investors may access increased capital efficiency, effective impermanent loss hedging, and lock-in fixed-rates on volatile yield farms. Project links: Website: https://www.resonate.finance/ 3 Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance Discord/Discourse/Community: Discord Please include all other relevant links below: WebApp: app.resonate.finance Docs: https://docs.resonate.finance Github: Resonate Github Additional team member info (please link): Resonate Resonate 2 Resonate: The Yield Futures Protocol Please link to any previous projects the team has meaningfully contributed to: Revest Finance initially launched Revest (https://revest.finance/) towards the end of Q 3 of 2021 . Resonate is to Revest what a video game is to a video-game engine. The Revest Protocol is a modular and composable system designed to make creating FNFTs as simple as configuring a JSON file and making minor modifications to your contracts – no frontend development needed. Revest on its own can handle simple vesting FNFTs, but requires more nuanced systems to be a consumer-facing product. That’s where Resonate comes in – Resonate is a consumer-facing product designed to bring Revest Protocol to the masses; passing a portion of its revenue back down-the-chain to Revest. Relevant usage metrics (TVL, transactions, volume, unique addresses, etc. Optimism metrics preferred; please link to public sources such as Dune Analytics, etc.): Revest has had up to 100 MM TVL previously locked in it (DeFi Llama). Over 3000 FNFTs have been minted, with over 1700 unique holders. Resonate on optimism currently has Velodrome’s Velo Grand Prix pool funded by Velodrome with ~$ 22 . 5 k in VELO tokens; offering 10 % upfront to those who lock VELO-USDC LPs for 60 days. If the current tranche is exhausted, that will lead to a TVL of ~$ 225 k, and also further deployments from Velodrome. Funding will help this scale aggressively to more protocols and target more prospective Issuers. Competitors, peers, or similar projects (please link): Our closest competitors are Element Finance (https://www.element.fi), Pendle Finance (https://www.pendle.finance 1 ), Swivel (https://swivel.finance 1 ). While Resonate isn’t the first to offer separation of principal and interest, we do so in a way that is both unique and that lends itself extremely well to a niche-focused business model. While others have previously attempted implementations of technology similar to Resonate, they have failed to design it in a way that makes the niche of treasury management accessible. This is because they utilized ERC- 20 based systems, which have fixed-maturities, rather than ERC- 1155 based systems, which have fixed-terms. The values of assets held in fixed-maturity products fluctuate on a daily basis as a function of time; if a DAO wanted to utilize these systems for treasury management, the math involved would be overly complicated by this temporal variable and would render the sort of system that Resonate allows impossible. This problem is sidestepped by starting the lockup period at the point of activation (something not possible without NFTs) through Resonate’s system that locks capital upon Purchasers and Issuers being matched. By targeting an underserved niche within the market, Resonate approaches the technology of separating principal and interest as a tool to serve a market, rather than as a technology to create without a target demographic. Is/will this project be open sourced? Yes/No/In Future Yes Optimism native?: Yes/No No Date of deployment/expected deployment on Optimism: Deployed in October of 2022 Problems and Solutions: Treasury management is one of the most underserved niches in crypto. Resonate creates the opportunity for token holders to sell the rights to their future returns for immediate returns. Utilizing a CD-like arrangement and Financial NFTs (FNFTs), Resonate boosts returns for those purchasing these interest-bearing FNFT rights, offering significant multipliers on the earning-potential of their tokens. As DAO treasuries do not experience opportunity cost in the same way that retail traders do they are ideal users for Resonate in the purchaser role. Through working with them and their communities, Resonate is able to assist DAOs in growing and managing their reserves. Resonate, effectively, also offers Impermanent Loss Protection for Issuers who lock LPs. Issuers are protected, with respect to Impermanent Loss, by the amount they are given upfront. A 10 % upfront payout will offer IL protection of 10 % (or 60 . 72 % decrease/ 154 . 5 % increase in the price of one token relative to the other) on the initial lock, with greater coverage for subsequent locks on the same token. Ecosystem Value Proposition: Resonate allows for locking mercenary liquidity within the Optimism ecosystem; liquidity that might otherwise bridge to another chain on a whim will instead be locked for a period of time (typically, around one year) in return for receiving upfront payment on expected yield. Particularly for stablecoins, this will allow Optimism to accrue large amounts of sticky liquidity within its ecosystem, enhancing the user experience for anyone participating within Optimism. Resonate can work with any project that has a yield source and has already partnered ahead of launch with several well-known Optimism projects. Has your project previously applied for an OP grant? If successful, please link to your previous grant proposal and provide a brief update on milestones achieved with the grant. If unsuccessful, and this is a resubmission, please specify how you have incorporated significant changes in accordance with feedback. Posted for feedback initially, but didn’t go to the voting stage. Resubmitting now after launching Resonate Number of OP tokens requested: 75 , 000 OP Did the project apply for or receive OP tokens through the Foundation Partner Fund?: Yes/No/In Process No If OP tokens were requested from the Foundation Partner Fund, what was the amount?: N/A How much will your project match in co-incentives? (not required but recommended, when applicable): Resonate doesn’t currently have a token, but we will likely include a form of liquidity mining through our service at the point we launch one. Optimism would be considered an ideal candidate for this service. Proposal for token distribution: We will primarily focus on utilizing OP incentives to scale our team from a core of full-time players with many outlying part-time players to an exclusively full-time team. Being able to better scale our team will allow us to bring on more sales staff, scaling our ability to connect with and provide treasury-management solutions for the many projects building on Optimism. Now that Resonate has launched and we are live on Optimism our plan is to aggressively continue to grow and expand to other protocols on Optimism. Every project onboarded to Resonate gives Optimism more sticky liquidity, in a benevolent cycle that encourages projects to continue using Resonate, and users to continue using those projects. This cycle means that much of Optimism’s liquidity could become locked, giving the chain a true long-term TVL pool that locks users and liquidity into it. We are asking for installments of OP tokens based on key milestones for Optimism TVL on Resonate. Here is a summary of that distribution structure We ask for the first 75 , 000 OP to be dispersed upon approval of this proposal to help hire on a full time dev to allow us to expand to supporting more protocols on the Optimism network at a faster pace. Once $ 1 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 50 , 000 OP dispersal would take place. Once $ 10 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 100 , 000 OP dispersal would take place Once $ 25 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 100 , 000 OP dispersal would take place We believe that this schedule will allow us to demonstrate the growth and success of our system to the wider Optimism community and align incentives for us and Optimism. Please provide any additional information that will facilitate accountability:(smart contracts addresses relevant to the proposal, relevant organizational wallet addresses, etc.) dev.resonate.finance Optimism 1 Address List for Deployed Resonate Contracts
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[DRAFT] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate (Post-Launch Resubmission) [ARCHIVED ORIGINAL]
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Dec. 6, 2022, 12:48 p.m.
Content: Project name:
Resonate
Author name and contact info (please provide a reliable point of contact for the project):
Rob Montgomery
Telegram: RobAnon
I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: [Yes/No]
Yes
L 2 recipient address:
resurgens.eth
Which Voting Cycle are you applying for?:
Cycle 10
Grant category: (DeFi, NFT, Tooling, Other)
DeFi
Is this proposal applicable to a specific committee? (If so, please link to committee)
This proposal falls within DeFi committees
Project description (please explain how your project works):
Resonate powers the sale of futures for on-chain yield rates. Through connecting institutional funds with protocol treasuries, institutional investors may access increased capital efficiency, effective impermanent loss hedging, and lock-in fixed-rates on volatile yield farms.
Project links:
Website: https://www.resonate.finance/ 3
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance
Discord/Discourse/Community: Discord
Please include all other relevant links below:
WebApp: app.resonate.finance
Docs: https://docs.resonate.finance
Github: Resonate Github
Additional team member info (please link):
Resonate
Resonate
Resonate: The Yield Futures Protocol
Please link to any previous projects the team has meaningfully contributed to:
Revest Finance initially launched Revest (https://revest.finance/) towards the end of Q 3 of 2021 . Resonate is to Revest what a video game is to a video-game engine. The Revest Protocol is a modular and composable system designed to make creating FNFTs as simple as configuring a JSON file and making minor modifications to your contracts – no frontend development needed. Revest on its own can handle simple vesting FNFTs, but requires more nuanced systems to be a consumer-facing product. That’s where Resonate comes in – Resonate is a consumer-facing product designed to bring Revest Protocol to the masses; passing a portion of its revenue back down-the-chain to Revest.
Relevant usage metrics (TVL, transactions, volume, unique addresses, etc. Optimism metrics preferred; please link to public sources such as Dune Analytics, etc.):
Revest has had up to 100 MM TVL previously locked in it (DeFi Llama). Over 3000 FNFTs have been minted, with over 1700 unique holders. Resonate on optimism currently has Velodrome’s Velo Grand Prix pool funded by Velodrome with ~$ 22 . 5 k in VELO tokens; offering 10 % upfront to those who lock VELO-USDC LPs for 60 days. If the current tranche is exhausted, that will lead to a TVL of ~$ 225 k, and also further deployments from Velodrome. Funding will help this scale aggressively to more protocols and target more prospective Issuers.
Competitors, peers, or similar projects (please link):
Our closest competitors are Element Finance (https://www.element.fi), Pendle Finance (https://www.pendle.finance 1 ), Swivel (https://swivel.finance 1 ). While Resonate isn’t the first to offer separation of principal and interest, we do so in a way that is both unique and that lends itself extremely well to a niche-focused business model. While others have previously attempted implementations of technology similar to Resonate, they have failed to design it in a way that makes the niche of treasury management accessible. This is because they utilized ERC- 20 based systems, which have fixed-maturities, rather than ERC- 1155 based systems, which have fixed-terms. The values of assets held in fixed-maturity products fluctuate on a daily basis as a function of time; if a DAO wanted to utilize these systems for treasury management, the math involved would be overly complicated by this temporal variable and would render the sort of system that Resonate allows impossible. This problem is sidestepped by starting the lockup period at the point of activation (something not possible without NFTs) through Resonate’s system that locks capital upon Purchasers and Issuers being matched. By targeting an underserved niche within the market, Resonate approaches the technology of separating principal and interest as a tool to serve a market, rather than as a technology to create without a target demographic.
Is/will this project be open sourced? Yes/No/In Future
Yes
Optimism native?: Yes/No
No
Date of deployment/expected deployment on Optimism:
Deployed in October of 2022
Problems and Solutions:
Treasury management is one of the most underserved niches in crypto. Resonate creates the opportunity for token holders to sell the rights to their future returns for immediate returns. Utilizing a CD-like arrangement and Financial NFTs (FNFTs), Resonate boosts returns for those purchasing these interest-bearing FNFT rights, offering significant multipliers on the earning-potential of their tokens. As DAO treasuries do not experience opportunity cost in the same way that retail traders do they are ideal users for Resonate in the purchaser role. Through working with them and their communities, Resonate is able to assist DAOs in growing and managing their reserves.
Resonate, effectively, also offers Impermanent Loss Protection for Issuers who lock LPs. Issuers are protected, with respect to Impermanent Loss, by the amount they are given upfront. A 10 % upfront payout will offer IL protection of 10 % (or 60 . 72 % decrease/ 154 . 5 % increase in the price of one token relative to the other) on the initial lock, with greater coverage for subsequent locks on the same token.
Ecosystem Value Proposition:
Resonate allows for locking mercenary liquidity within the Optimism ecosystem; liquidity that might otherwise bridge to another chain on a whim will instead be locked for a period of time (typically, around one year) in return for receiving upfront payment on expected yield. Particularly for stablecoins, this will allow Optimism to accrue large amounts of sticky liquidity within its ecosystem, enhancing the user experience for anyone participating within Optimism. Resonate can work with any project that has a yield source and has already partnered ahead of launch with several well-known Optimism projects.
Has your project previously applied for an OP grant? If successful, please link to your previous grant proposal and provide a brief update on milestones achieved with the grant. If unsuccessful, and this is a resubmission, please specify how you have incorporated significant changes in accordance with feedback.
Posted for feedback initially, but didn’t go to the voting stage. Resubmitting now after launching Resonate
Number of OP tokens requested:
75 , 000 OP
Did the project apply for or receive OP tokens through the Foundation Partner Fund?: Yes/No/In Process
No
If OP tokens were requested from the Foundation Partner Fund, what was the amount?:
N/A
How much will your project match in co-incentives? (not required but recommended, when applicable):
Resonate doesn’t currently have a token, but we will likely include a form of liquidity mining through our service at the point we launch one. Optimism would be considered an ideal candidate for this service.
Proposal for token distribution:
We will primarily focus on utilizing OP incentives to scale our team from a core of full-time players with many outlying part-time players to an exclusively full-time team. Being able to better scale our team will allow us to bring on more sales staff, scaling our ability to connect with and provide treasury-management solutions for the many projects building on Optimism. Now that Resonate has launched and we are live on Optimism our plan is to aggressively continue to grow and expand to other protocols on Optimism. Every project onboarded to Resonate gives Optimism more sticky liquidity, in a benevolent cycle that encourages projects to continue using Resonate, and users to continue using those projects. This cycle means that much of Optimism’s liquidity could become locked, giving the chain a true long-term TVL pool that locks users and liquidity into it.
We are asking for installments of OP tokens based on key milestones for Optimism TVL on Resonate. Here is a summary of that distribution structure
We ask for the first 75 , 000 OP to be dispersed upon approval of this proposal to help hire on a full time dev to allow us to expand to supporting more protocols on the Optimism network at a faster pace.
Once $ 1 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 50 , 000 OP dispersal would take place.
Once $ 10 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 100 , 000 OP dispersal would take place
Once $ 25 MM Optimism TVL is reached on Resonate then an additional 100 , 000 OP dispersal would take place
We believe that this schedule will allow us to demonstrate the growth and success of our system to the wider Optimism community and align incentives for us and Optimism.
Please provide any additional information that will facilitate accountability:(smart contracts addresses relevant to the proposal, relevant organizational wallet addresses, etc.)
dev.resonate.finance
Optimism | Resonate Developer Docs
Address List for Deployed Resonate Contracts
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[Ready] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Sept. 13, 2022, 5:44 p.m.
Content: This has been corrected to list the DeFi committee now. Thank you!
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[Ready] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Sept. 13, 2022, 1:44 p.m.
Content: This has been corrected to list the DeFi committee now. Thank you!
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[Ready] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Sept. 12, 2022, 7:45 p.m.
Content: Project name: Resonate Author name and contact info (please provide a reliable point of contact for the project): Rob Montgomery Telegram: RobAnon I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: Yes L 2 recipient address: resurgens.eth Number of OP tokens requested: Initially 111 , 000 OP tokens with the possibility of increasing to a total of 333 , 000 OP tokens if certain milestones are met. Initial: 50 , 000 OP tokens upon approval of this proposal 1 st Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 1 MM then another 61 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 111 , 000 OP tokens) 2 nd Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 10 MM then another 111 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 222 , 000 OP tokens) 3 rd Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 25 MM then another 111 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 333 , 000 OP tokens) Grant category: Governance fund Phase 1 Is this proposal applicable to a specific committee? This proposal falls within DeFi committees Project Overview Project description (please explain how your project works): Treasury management is one of the most underserved niches in crypto. Resonate creates the opportunity for token holders to sell the rights to their future returns for immediate returns. Utilizing a CD-like arrangement and Financial NFTs (FNFTs), Resonate boosts returns for those purchasing these interest-bearing FNFT rights, offering significant multipliers on the earning-potential of their tokens. As DAO treasuries do not experience opportunity cost in the same way that retail traders do they are ideal users for Resonate in the purchaser role. Through working with them and their communities, Resonate is able to assist DAOs in growing and managing their reserves. Project links: Website: https://www.resonate.finance/ 3 Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance 3 Discord/Discourse/Community: Discord Please include all other relevant links below: Docs: https://docs.resonate.finance Github: Resonate Github Additional team member info (please link): Resonate Resonate Resonate: The Yield Futures Protocol Please link to any previous projects the team has meaningfully contributed to: Revest Finance initially launched Revest (https://revest.finance/ 1 ) towards the end of last year. Resonate is to Revest what a video game is to a video-game engine. The Revest Protocol is a modular and composable system designed to make creating FNFTs as simple as configuring a JSON file and making minor modifications to your contracts – no frontend development needed. Revest on its own can handle simple vesting FNFTs, but requires more nuanced systems to be a consumer-facing product. That’s where Resonate comes in – Resonate is a consumer-facing product designed to bring Revest Protocol to the masses, passing a portion of its revenue back down-the-chain to Revest. Relevant usage metrics (TVL, transactions, volume, unique addresses, etc. Optimism metrics preferred; please link to public sources such as Dune Analytics, etc.): We have yet to launch on Optimism, as Resonate has not yet launched. Revest has had up to 100 MM TVL previously locked in it (DeFi Llama 3 ). Over 3000 FNFTs have been minted, with over 1700 unique holders. Projections on Optimism indicate that Resonate will bring it at least $ 5 MM TVL at launch to Optimism, locked on the chain for a period of one year. Additional funding will help this scale aggressively. Competitors, peers, or similar projects (please link): Our closest competitors are Element Finance (https://www.element.fi), Pendle Finance (https://www.pendle.finance 1 ), Swivel (https://swivel.finance 1 ). While Resonate isn’t the first to offer separation of principal and interest, we do so in a way that is both unique and that lends itself extremely well to a niche-focused business model. While others have previously attempted implementations of technology similar to Resonate, they have failed to design it in a way that makes the niche of treasury management accessible. This is because they utilized ERC- 20 based systems, which have fixed-maturities, rather than ERC- 1155 based systems, which have fixed-terms. The values of assets held in fixed-maturity products fluctuate on a daily basis as a function of time; if a DAO wanted to utilize these systems for treasury management, the math involved would be overly complicated by this temporal variable and would render the sort of system that Resonate allows impossible. This problem is sidestepped by starting the lockup period at the point of activation (something not possible without NFTs) through Resonate’s system that locks capital upon Purchasers and Issuers being matched. By targeting an underserved niche within the market, Resonate approaches the technology of separating principal and interest as a tool to serve a market, rather than as a technology to create without a target demographic. Is/will this project be open sourced? Yes Optimism native?: No Date of deployment/expected deployment on Optimism: Expected deployment in October of 2022 Has your project previously applied for an OP grant? No Did the project apply for or receive OP tokens through the Foundation Partner Fund?: No If OP tokens were requested from the Foundation Partner Fund, what was the amount?: N/A Value Add Ecosystem Value Proposition: Resonate allows for locking mercenary liquidity within the Optimism ecosystem; liquidity that might otherwise bridge to another chain on a whim will instead be locked for a period of time (typically, around one year) in return for receiving upfront payment on expected yield. Particularly for stablecoins, this will allow Optimism to accrue large amounts of sticky liquidity within its ecosystem, enhancing the user experience for anyone participating within Optimism. Resonate can work with any project that has a yield source and has already partnered ahead of launch with several well-known Optimism projects. How much will your project match in co-incentives? (not required but recommended, when applicable): Resonate doesn’t currently have a token, but we will likely include a form of liquidity mining through our service at the point we launch one. Optimism would be considered an ideal candidate for this service. Proposal for token distribution: We will primarily focus on utilizing OP incentives to scale our team from a core of full-time players with many outlying part-time players to a fully full-time team. Being able to better scale our team will allow us to bring on more sales staff, scaling our ability to connect with and manage treasury-management solutions for the many projects building on Optimism. Every project onboarded to Resonate gives Optimism more sticky liquidity in a benevolent cycle that encourages projects to continue using Resonate and users to continue using those projects. This cycle means that much of Optimism’s liquidity could become locked, giving the chain a long-term TVL pool that locks users and liquidity into it. We would ask for the first 50 , 000 OP to be dispersed upon approval of this proposal to assist us with a Code 4 rena challenge prior to the launch of our project to ensure maximal security. We would then seek an additional 61 , 000 OP disbursal upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 1 MM We would then seek an additional 111 , 000 OP disbursal upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 10 MM Finally, we would seek the third disbursal of 111 , 000 OP tokens upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 25 MM We believe that this schedule will allow us to demonstrate the growth and success of our system to the wider Optimism community and align incentives for us and Optimism. Please provide any additional information that will facilitate accountability:(smart contracts addresses relevant to the proposal, relevant organizational wallet addresses, etc.) Nothing is deployed yet, beyond Revest docs.revest.finance Revest Finance 1 docs.resonate.finance Security and Audits
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[Ready] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Resonate
by MattyIce - No Role
Posted on: Sept. 12, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Content: Project name:
Resonate
Author name and contact info (please provide a reliable point of contact for the project):
Rob Montgomery
Telegram: RobAnon
I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant:
Yes
L 2 recipient address:
resurgens.eth
Number of OP tokens requested:
Initially 111 , 000 OP tokens with the possibility of increasing to a total of 333 , 000 OP tokens if certain milestones are met.
Initial: 50 , 000 OP tokens upon approval of this proposal
1 st Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 1 MM then another 61 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 111 , 000 OP tokens)
2 nd Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 10 MM then another 111 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 222 , 000 OP tokens)
3 rd Milestone: Optimism TVL exceeding $ 25 MM then another 111 , 000 OP tokens dispersed (for a total of 333 , 000 OP tokens)
Grant category:
Governance fund Phase 1
Is this proposal applicable to a specific committee?
This proposal falls within DeFi committees
Project Overview
Project description (please explain how your project works):
Treasury management is one of the most underserved niches in crypto. Resonate creates the opportunity for token holders to sell the rights to their future returns for immediate returns. Utilizing a CD-like arrangement and Financial NFTs (FNFTs), Resonate boosts returns for those purchasing these interest-bearing FNFT rights, offering significant multipliers on the earning-potential of their tokens. As DAO treasuries do not experience opportunity cost in the same way that retail traders do they are ideal users for Resonate in the purchaser role. Through working with them and their communities, Resonate is able to assist DAOs in growing and managing their reserves.
Project links:
Website: https://www.resonate.finance/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevestFinance
Discord/Discourse/Community: Discord
Please include all other relevant links below:
Docs: https://docs.resonate.finance
Github: Resonate Github
Additional team member info (please link):
Resonate
Resonate
Resonate: The Yield Futures Protocol
Please link to any previous projects the team has meaningfully contributed to:
Revest Finance initially launched Revest (https://revest.finance/) towards the end of last year. Resonate is to Revest what a video game is to a video-game engine. The Revest Protocol is a modular and composable system designed to make creating FNFTs as simple as configuring a JSON file and making minor modifications to your contracts – no frontend development needed. Revest on its own can handle simple vesting FNFTs, but requires more nuanced systems to be a consumer-facing product. That’s where Resonate comes in – Resonate is a consumer-facing product designed to bring Revest Protocol to the masses, passing a portion of its revenue back down-the-chain to Revest.
Relevant usage metrics (TVL, transactions, volume, unique addresses, etc. Optimism metrics preferred; please link to public sources such as Dune Analytics, etc.):
We have yet to launch on Optimism, as Resonate has not yet launched. Revest has had up to 100 MM TVL previously locked in it (DeFi Llama). Over 3000 FNFTs have been minted, with over 1700 unique holders. Projections on Optimism indicate that Resonate will bring it at least $ 5 MM TVL at launch to Optimism, locked on the chain for a period of one year. Additional funding will help this scale aggressively.
Competitors, peers, or similar projects (please link):
Our closest competitors are Element Finance (https://www.element.fi), Pendle Finance (https://www.pendle.finance), Swivel (https://swivel.finance). While Resonate isn’t the first to offer separation of principal and interest, we do so in a way that is both unique and that lends itself extremely well to a niche-focused business model. While others have previously attempted implementations of technology similar to Resonate, they have failed to design it in a way that makes the niche of treasury management accessible. This is because they utilized ERC- 20 based systems, which have fixed-maturities, rather than ERC- 1155 based systems, which have fixed-terms. The values of assets held in fixed-maturity products fluctuate on a daily basis as a function of time; if a DAO wanted to utilize these systems for treasury management, the math involved would be overly complicated by this temporal variable and would render the sort of system that Resonate allows impossible. This problem is sidestepped by starting the lockup period at the point of activation (something not possible without NFTs) through Resonate’s system that locks capital upon Purchasers and Issuers being matched. By targeting an underserved niche within the market, Resonate approaches the technology of separating principal and interest as a tool to serve a market, rather than as a technology to create without a target demographic.
Is/will this project be open sourced?
Yes
Optimism native?:
No
Date of deployment/expected deployment on Optimism:
Expected deployment in October of 2022
Has your project previously applied for an OP grant?
No
Did the project apply for or receive OP tokens through the Foundation Partner Fund?:
No
If OP tokens were requested from the Foundation Partner Fund, what was the amount?:
N/A
Value Add
Ecosystem Value Proposition:
Resonate allows for locking mercenary liquidity within the Optimism ecosystem; liquidity that might otherwise bridge to another chain on a whim will instead be locked for a period of time (typically, around one year) in return for receiving upfront payment on expected yield. Particularly for stablecoins, this will allow Optimism to accrue large amounts of sticky liquidity within its ecosystem, enhancing the user experience for anyone participating within Optimism. Resonate can work with any project that has a yield source and has already partnered ahead of launch with several well-known Optimism projects.
How much will your project match in co-incentives? (not required but recommended, when applicable):
Resonate doesn’t currently have a token, but we will likely include a form of liquidity mining through our service at the point we launch one. Optimism would be considered an ideal candidate for this service.
Proposal for token distribution:
We will primarily focus on utilizing OP incentives to scale our team from a core of full-time players with many outlying part-time players to a fully full-time team. Being able to better scale our team will allow us to bring on more sales staff, scaling our ability to connect with and manage treasury-management solutions for the many projects building on Optimism. Every project onboarded to Resonate gives Optimism more sticky liquidity in a benevolent cycle that encourages projects to continue using Resonate and users to continue using those projects. This cycle means that much of Optimism’s liquidity could become locked, giving the chain a long-term TVL pool that locks users and liquidity into it.
We would ask for the first 50 , 000 OP to be dispersed upon approval of this proposal to assist us with a Code 4 rena challenge prior to the launch of our project to ensure maximal security.
We would then seek an additional 61 , 000 OP disbursal upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 1 MM
We would then seek an additional 111 , 000 OP disbursal upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 10 MM
Finally, we would seek the third disbursal of 111 , 000 OP tokens upon our Optimism TVL exceeding $ 25 MM
We believe that this schedule will allow us to demonstrate the growth and success of our system to the wider Optimism community and align incentives for us and Optimism.
Please provide any additional information that will facilitate accountability:(smart contracts addresses relevant to the proposal, relevant organizational wallet addresses, etc.)
Nothing is deployed yet, beyond Revest
docs.revest.finance
Revest Finance
docs.resonate.finance
Security and Audits
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