Bumper

About:

BUMPER is a DeFi price protection protocol that protects the value of crypto assets.

Website: https://bumper.fi

Twitter/X: bumperfinance

Top Investors: Beachhead Venture Capital, Alphabit Fund, Autonomy Capital, Node Kapital, Chainlayer

Description:

Bumper protects crypto assets against negative price movement when they are deposited by “Takers”, who are returned a tokenised version of the asset with the down-side volatility risk removed. The price risk is transferred to the opposing side of the market where “Makers” supply an alternative cryptocurrency that has a lower volatility; typically, a “stablecoin”. Both the protected asset and the stablecoin deposited by Takers and Makers are held by the protocol in pools. Stablecoins are at risk for the benefit of Takers in the event of certain negative price events, and Taker assets incur a variable premium in the native asset for the benefit of Makers. Both the volatile cryptocurrency and stablecoin pools are partially subordinated, allowing actors to engage with the protocol according to their individual perspective on future price behaviour of the protected asset. The Bumper design demonstrates how a decentralised software marketplace for asset price risk might prove superior to more traditional methods of using centralised stop-loss (which incurs slippage), or options markets (which has parasitic profits and overheads), by re-organising the utilities of the market participants.