No audits, no tokens, and no ‘rugpulls.’ Yearn’s Andre Cronje launches new DeFi project

Andre Cronje, creator of wildly in style decentralized finance (DeFi) yield farming protocol Yearn.Finance (YFI), at this time announced his new challenge—a blockchain-based international alternate (foreign exchange) platform.

* No token
* Not audited
* Experimental

Introducing Mounted Foreign exchange (USD, EUR, ZAR, YPY, CNY, and many others) https://t.co/Dcoa83G4ej

— Andre Cronje 🦀 (@AndreCronjeTech) July 2, 2021

Dubbed Mounted Foreign exchange, the platform permits customers to commerce numerous fiat currencies—such because the U.S. greenback (USD), euro (EUR), the South African rand (ZAR), the Japanese yen (JPY), the Chinese language renminbi (CNY), and others—within the type of stablecoins.

Notably, in contrast to many different DeFi platforms, Mounted Foreign exchange doesn’t have its personal native token, costs zero charges, and implements no types of governance.

“Mounted Foreign exchange is designed to be an immutable, 0 payment, 0 governance, decentralized steady coin framework,” Cronje wrote.

“Zero worth extraction”

In essence, Mounted Foreign exchange is designed to be the epitome of the “hands-off” method as nobody will be capable to management it or revenue off it. By extension, this additionally signifies that the platform is extremely experimental, Cronje identified and didn’t endure any code audits. In different phrases, customers ought to solely use it at their very own danger.

Moreover, Mounted Foreign exchange has no configuration choices and goals to supply “light liquidations,” “dynamic minting caps primarily based on on-chain liquidity,” and “dynamic LTVs primarily based on on-chain protocols.”

“Mounted Foreign exchange introduces light liquidations, absolutely the minimal quantity of debt is repaid to deliver a customers place again to even, no extra worrying in regards to the full stack being liquidated throughout draw down occasions,” Cronje defined.

In the meantime, the quantity of liquidity any single person can mint is immediately proportional to the full on-chain liquidity as “the upper the on-chain liquidity, the upper the minting caps.” Lastly, loan-to-value ratios are derived from DeFi platforms akin to Compound, Aave, and Iron Financial institution.

No rugs to tug

Sarcastically, the absence of a local token signifies that Cronje received’t be capable to “rug pull” this time round, as some customers jokingly identified. It is a callback to final September when Cronje was secretly engaged on one other DeFi platform—known as Eminence Finance—which was finally hacked for $15 million.

No token? Gaddamn how are we gonna get rugged?

— damidarey.eth (@damidarey1) July 2, 2021

Whereas he didn’t formally announce it in any capability on the time, some customers have found the brand new challenge by way of Cronje’s pockets interactions. Shortly after, merchants started shopping for Eminence’s token—apparently hoping that its value will skyrocket identical to YFI’s did (buying and selling at round $31,385 at press time).

Nonetheless, loopy earnings weren’t meant to be. Since Eminence was within the early levels of improvement, its safety was sorely missing—and a few unknown hacker took benefit of it. Additional, after stealing $15 million price of tokens, the attacker returned $8 million again and retained the remaining $7 million.

Nonetheless, none of this stopped a big variety of customers—who invested in a platform that wasn’t even introduced—from blaming Cronje for his or her losses and alleging that he had carried out a “rug pull” on them. Though it’s unlikely that one thing comparable might occur to Mounted Foreign exchange—in any case, no token means no “rugpulls.”

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