Reef Finance Project Insight: De-Fi Made Easy

“The gateway to DeFi through Liquidity and Protocol Aggregation, Proprietary Analytics, and Multi-Chain Accessibility” – Reef Team

‍Introduction

In late 2019 the idea for Reef was born, as Denko Mancheski, CEO and co-founder of Reef Finance envisioned a “simpler” De-Fi. The goal was to make De-Fi a lot easier for the masses, the current ways are complicated, and he wanted to bring a product that anyone can use. They finally launched on Polkadot in September of 2020.

A lot of development has been done since, setting up the protocol on Polkadot, integrating it into Ethereum De-Fi, and partnering with several projects. One of the most recent developments was REEFs launch on the Binance Launchpool last December, making their token also available on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

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So What Is Polkadot Network?

Polkadot is a blockchain protocol that allows arbitrary data and tokens to be transferred across different blockchains. 

Reef Finance has built on this network, which works as a connector between different blockchains. The network utilizes a heterogeneous multi-chain interchange and translation architecture enabling customized side-chains to connect with public blockchains. Polkadot’s interoperability layer allows communication between different blockchains, and the Polkadot security model gives De-Fi more resilience. Polkadot is currently fully compatible with certain De-Fi ecosystems, specifically the Ethereum Network.

Multi-chain capabilities are essential for the future of De-Fi; through Polkadot’s ecosystem, this can all be achieved. Another reason why Reef chose Polkadot is that they can use native Ethereum addresses, the support for Web-3, parity, and the ability to run solidity code on para-chains XCMP  (plasma and moonbeam). These features allow for seamless integration into De-Fi apps using the Polkdaot chain.

How Does Reef Generate Liquidity

Reef Finance takes its liquidity from everywhere, from both Centralized Exchanges and Decentralized Exchanges. Thanks to the Polkadot “atomic bridge,” this is made easy, allowing users to experience low slippage and gas fees. This system also helps protect users against “front running” and other market manipulations. 

In the Reef Trading Terminal, users will easily trade assets. Simultaneously, the protocol makes the best possible trade for you, utilizing Polkadot’s Atomic Swap functionalities to access any exchange on any network.

Reef Yield Engine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the magic behind the protocols yield optimization strategies maximizing profits. The AI is called the “Reef Intelligence Engine,” an off-chain oracle that is sourcing intelligence on-chain De-Fi through proxy smart contracts. 

As a user, you simply put your tokens into so-called “baskets” (pools), and the Reef Yield Engine goes to work for you; yes, the AI can be set to individual user needs, making it easier to achieve your goals.

So when you have set up your goals for the AI (risk/reward tolerance) and dropped your tokens in the various baskets, the AI will dynamically adjust and move assets into more productive baskets when needed, all to bring you closer to your goals.

Life should become more comfortable with the AI taking care of business for you.

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Reef Token

The $REEF token exists on both the Ethereum and the BSC networks as ERC-20 and BEP-20 tokens. The current circulating supply is 4.243.258.566 tokens for both chains, 1,824,532,486 on the BSC and 2,418726,080 on the Ethereum Network. The maximum supply will be 20 Billion tokens, all to be released evenly and distributed quarterly over one year. Currently, the circulating supply is only 15% (3,026,721,973) of the total supply, which leaves a lot of room for inflation to occur.

After a private sale held back in September 2020, the project raised 3.9 Million USD, which is impressive. Many big investment agencies have invested already. Although the product is not finished yet, they seem to have immense faith in the Reef Finance project. On top of this, the team has already promised on a plethora of its devolpments, inching forward to its completed product.

The $REEF token will be used for: 

Governance:

Vote on proposals, vote on releasing new features and re-adjustments to the system parameters

Protocol fees:

Pay fees for operations such as entering/exiting a basket, reallocation, re-balancing and other activities

Staking:

Stake into various pools to earn interests 

Yield Distribution:

Payout ratio of the profit generated by your basket

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Partnerships

Reef has partnered with many projects and firms, strengthening its position and get exposure and more potential users. A selection of partnerships so far:

Polkadot

The native network to Reef, able to interact with any other chain, where there is no congestion and has plenty of room to scale

ChainLink

One of the top oracles of this time, Chainlink provides high-quality price feeds that the Reef protocol will use

Binance

The world’s biggest exchange provides a fiat on ramp inside Reef through the Binance brokerage integration. It also featured the initial Launchpool staking for $REEF

Matic

The layer two solution helps negate the Ethereum Network and its massive gas prices, Matic’s layer two can also be bridged to Polkadot, making a highly scalable inter-operable bridge.

Kava

Kava will also be inter-operable as it is a project on the Cosmos ecosystem and will grant users of Reef the Yield opportunities present within Kava.

Unifi Protocol

Unifi creates and connects multi-chain DeFi marketplaces by enabling cross-chain trading. Reef users can utilize the yield generating opportunities and earn interest. 

Equilibrium

A cross-chain money market that combines pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. It will furthermore act as a liquidity provider for Reef Finance.

Roadmap

The Reef team continues to apply pressure with visions of mass devolpment and innovation this year. A few of the things planned for the first half-year of 2021 are as follows:

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–A new audit before the official launch is planned to ensure high security.

–Reef LP & Farms are coming Q1 2021

–Yield Engine (v1)

–Started work on the Rust implementation of the basket engine.

–Add support for Value vaults in the stablecoin farming basket.

–Improvement on Indexers, work on real-time basket monitoring.

–Prototyping pooling mechanism (reduce fees for invest/disinvest). Planned to launch in v2

–Make a multi-ecosystem support wallet

–Binance Access Integration for interaction with CEX

–Fiat Gateway integration to purchase tokens within the Reef using Credit Card of Fiat

Source : bsc.news