Bifrost users receive “vtokens,” a staking derivative token, in exchange for coins staked on the platform. These vtokens can be deployed on decentralized finance protocols in the DotSama ecosystem, enabling users to enjoy staking rewards and DeFi yield at the same time."Dotsama is a portmanteau of Polkadot and Kusama.
The project won the fifth Kusama parachain auction in July 2021. These auctions were to determine the projects that will earn slots on the Kusama parachain which is a canary network for Polkadot.from Bifrost, the loan will be used to bootstrap liquidity for the platform’s staked KSM derivative called vKSM . This liquidity is to enable Bifrost to incentivize vKSM utilization across DotSama DeFi protocols.
The requested loan has a one-year tenure at an interest rate of 19%. Bifrost will split the loan equally between Solarbeam and Taiga Protocol. Solarbeam is a decentralized exchange in the Moonriver parachain network. Moonriver was also one of the earliest winners of. Taiga is a derivatives liquidity protocol similar to Synthetix on Ethereum.
The 25,000 KSM split between both platforms will be used to provide liquidity for the KSM/vKSM trading pair. Bifrost says it is not expecting any impermanent loss when repaying the loan since vKSM can always be redeemed 1:1 for KSM. © 2022 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.Osato is a reporter at The Block who likes to cover DeFi, NFTS, and tech-related stories. He has previously worked as a reporter for Cointelegraph. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, he enjoys crosswords, poker, and attempting to beat his Scrabble high score.
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