{"id":1038,"date":"2023-02-08T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2023-03-27T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:15:18","slug":"defi-protocol-maverick-unveils-uniswap-rival-decentralized-exchange-on-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"DeFi Protocol Maverick Unveils UniSwap Rival Decentralized Exchange on Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Decentralized finance<\/a>\u00a0(DeFi) platform Maverick Protocol has unveiled its decentralized exchange (DEX<\/a>) on\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protocol is powered by a native smart-contract-based, automated market making (AMM) engine the Maverick team had been building for over a year and lets investors earn more revenue than on UniSwap, one of the top DEXs, according to Bob Baxley, Maverick\u2019s chief technology officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maverick\u2019s latest addition comes in an increasingly competitive space as investors seek decentralized trading venues after the FTX exchange\u2019s spectacular demise and concerns about the stability of centralized exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEXs are built around liquidity pools, where traders can exchange assets while investors \u2013 also called liquidity providers \u2013 earn rewards from transaction fees for providing liquidity to make a market. Liquidity distribution is the price range where investors deploy their capital for the pair of assets in the liquidity pool. Naturally, investors are attracted to deploy their capital on protocols with higher, steadier rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maverick started with six\u00a0liquidity pools<\/a>, fundamental building blocks of DEXs similar to trading pairs on\u00a0centralized exchanges<\/a>, with more than $10 million of combined size to trade tokens of the largest\u00a0liquid staking<\/a>\u00a0protocol\u00a0Lido Finance<\/a>, decentralized\u00a0stablecoin<\/a>\u00a0issuer Liquity and web3 identity data network Galxe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher capital efficiency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maverick\u2019s novelty is its dynamic automated market maker behind the protocol, which lets investors capture more fees and maximize revenues from providing liquidity with a customizable liquidity distribution tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEXs are built around liquidity pools, where traders can exchange assets while investors \u2013 also called liquidity providers \u2013 earn rewards from transaction fees for providing liquidity to make a market. Liquidity distribution is the price range where investors deploy their capital for the pair of assets in the liquidity pool. Naturally, investors are attracted to deploy their capital on protocols with higher,steadier rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of standard liquidity distribution, liquidity providers on Maverick can automate their own distribution range and bet on the future price of the liquidity pool\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that, investors\u2019 capital can work more efficiently covering wider price movements, with less inactive periods when their capital is sitting idle because the asset price is out of range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf liquidity providers in existing AMMs want to keep their capital as active as possible, they are forced to adjust their liquidity positions hourly, costing them time and gas,\u201d Baxley said. \u201cBy giving LPs the option to choose if and how their liquidity moves with price in a given pool \u2013 something that no other AMM does natively \u2013 Maverick enables markets to run more efficiently, resulting in more consistent fee generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a backtest for last month, Maverick claimed the strategy reached 1,195% of average capital efficiency without any inactive periods, which translates to about ten times more potential income for liquidity providers compared to UniSwap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liquidity pools for stablecoins, liquid staking derivatives<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning, crypto traders can access six liquidity pools on Maverick with an initial liquidity \u2013 total value locked (TVL<\/a>) \u2013 of more than $10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maverick integrated the popular liquid staking protocol Lido Finance, making its wrapped ether derivative<\/a> a key asset in the pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of the wstETH\/ETH<\/a> pool, Maverick also partnered with decentralized stablecoin issuer Liquity to offer trading pools for its LUSD stablecoin against ETH and wstETH, and with Galxe for a wstETH\/GAL pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those investors who deposit wstETH into the pools may also earn the derivative\u2019s staking reward as well as the usual revenue by providing liquidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the protocol hosts a\u00a0USDC<\/a>\/USDT<\/a>\u00a0stablecoin pool and ETH\/USDC pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEX competition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During a torrid last year for centralized crypto trading platforms, highlighted by the spectacular collapse of FTX, the resiliency of decentralized alternatives spurred interest in DEXs. However, less-than-user-friendly interfaces and occasionally subpar efficiency has stifled their emergence, executing only 5% of the daily trading volume of centralized exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, decentralized exchanges compensate for the largest sector within DeFi, with a combined $18.8 billion of total value locked on the protocols, according to data from DefiLlama. The leading platforms are UniSwap and the stablecoin-focused swap protocol Curve Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal is to be among the top five decentralized exchanges by volume within the next six months,\u201d Baxley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protocol\u2019s developer firm raised $9 million of venture capital from backers including Circle Ventures, LedgerPrime and Jump Crypto, according to Crunchbase, with Pantera Capital being the latest investor last year, Maverick added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decentralized finance\u00a0(DeFi) platform Maverick Protocol has unveiled its decentralized exchange (DEX) on\u00a0Ethereum. The protocol is powered by a native smart-contract-based, automated market making (AMM) engine the Maverick team had been building for over a year and lets investors earn more revenue than on UniSwap, one of the top DEXs, according to Bob Baxley, Maverick\u2019s chief…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldiumportfolio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}