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Summary of the Project:
Chronicle Protocol emerges as a groundbreaking solution in the Oracle landscape, directly addressing the inefficiencies plaguing existing Oracle networks. Traditionally, Oracles have struggled with scalability, transparency, decentralization, and cost-effectiveness, significantly hindering their practical application and integration across different blockchain environments.
At the heart of Chronicle's innovation is the Scribe cryptographic primitive, which dramatically reduces Oracle gas fees by over 60% on Layer 1 (L1) and 68% on Layer 2 (L2) networks. This not only enhances cost efficiency but also promotes scalability by allowing more frequent updates at a lower cost.
Verifiability is another cornerstone of Chronicle Protocol, ensuring every piece of data transmitted through its Oracles can be tracked and verified from end-to-end. This introduces a high-integrity, censorship-resistant layer for data transmission, which is crucial for maintaining transparency and security in decentralized applications.
Chronicle Protocol is designed to be blockchain-agnostic, facilitating its deployment across various public and enterprise ledgers without the technical and operational bottlenecks typically associated with Oracle integration. This universality is complemented by an intuitive on-chain accounting system, Levier, enabling users to easily subscribe or unsubscribe from Oracles as needed.
The protocol's significance is further underscored by its role within the MakerDAO ecosystem. Having started as the first Oracle on Ethereum, Chronicle has been integral in securing over $20 billion in assets, contributing to MakerDAO's position as a leader in the DeFi space and the DAI stablecoin's prominence.
Chronicle's distributed architecture combines on-chain and off-chain components, including the WatRegistry for data model management, ConfigRegistry for individual feed configurations, and FeedRegistry for maintaining a list of valid Feeds. Off-chain components like Validators, Challengers, and Relays work in tandem to process, verify, and relay data from various origins to the blockchain, ensuring the integrity and reliability of Oracle data.
In essence, Chronicle Protocol not only addresses the limitations of existing Oracle solutions but also paves the way for a new era of data verifiability, cost-efficiency, and accessibility in the blockchain ecosystem.


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Polygon Alpha Podcast - Episode 0026 - March 24, 2023
TimeSwap - Ricsson Ngo, Harshita Singh, Ameeth Devadas
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TimeSwap
* Decentralized and oracle-less fixed time preference protocol
* Timeswap is a fixed time preference protocol for users to manage their ERC20 tokens over discrete time.
* It works as a zero liquidation money market and options market in one.
* Users can lend tokens into the pool to earn fixed yields.
* They can also borrow or leverage tokens against other tokens, without the fear of liquidation.
* Liquidity providers (different from lenders) create markets for any pair of tokens, adding liquidity, and being the counterparty to all lenders and borrowers of the protocol.
* In return, they earn transaction fees from both sides of the market.
* Timeswap utilizes a unique constant sum options specification and an ingenious duration weighted constant product automated market maker (AMM) similar to Uniswap AMM.
* It is designed to not utilize oracles, is capital efficient, permissionless to deploy, game theoretically sound in any state of the market, and is easy to use.
* Timeswap works on a duration weighted constant product automated market maker (AMM)​
Key Features of Timeswap
* Permissionless - Liquidity providers can create pools for any ERC20 pair, without permission.
* Oracle-less - Timeswap works without any oracles and it discovers the interest rate and collateral factor through free market arbitrage.
* Most importantly, this makes the tokens safe and immune to oracle manipulation attacks.
* Perfect Price Range - Timeswap V2 has implemented an ingenious feature where the collateral factor is always over-collateralized i.e. it stays above one hundred percent no matter how large the lending transactions are. Under-collateralized loan by definition is a guaranteed arbitrage.
* By limiting the price range to where it is always over-collateralized, increases the price efficiency and lower slippage costs for both lenders and borrowers.
* Self Healing - Timeswap's well-designed free market AMM has the ability to self-heal its state and price based on the preference of the free market no matter what the market price may become or how fast it changes.
* It does not matter how fast the spot price, interest price, and collateral factor of the pair go down or goes up.
* It does not matter if it is a bear market or a bull market.
* Symmetric Market - Timeswap V2 has a sound AMM having a perfect symmetry for lending and borrowing.
* This leads to efficient pricing for the market.
* Lenders can withdraw their funds before maturity given a small penalty, while borrowers can pay their debt with a discount before maturity.
* Liquidity providers can also withdraw their liquidity before maturity.
* Bidirectional Pool - In Timeswap V2, the pairs are now bidirectional, giving it greater capital efficiency and flexibility.
* Lenders can lend either token A and/or token B into the same pool, while borrowers can leverage on token A and/or token B in the same pool, using token A and/or token B as collateral.
* Gas Efficient - Timeswap does not use the Black-Scholes formula to determine the price of the option.
* Instead, the protocol provides the price based on a simple constant product formula very similar to Uniswap.
* This makes the protocol more gas efficient.
* This also makes it very easy for anyone to intuitively create money markets for their tokens, without the need of learning complicated financial formulas.
* Past Independent AMM - Timeswap is designed to be past-independent and not historically biased on the pricing.
* It does not have any historical data stored in the AMM that determines the price, which gives it zero past data bias, and pricing that perfectly follows the present decisions of the free market.
* Capital Efficient Liquidity -Timeswap V2's new design improves the liquidity capital effic

Polygon Alpha Podcast - Episode 0025 - March 10, 2023
Miguel Morel - CEO of Arkham IntelligenceLinkTree - https://linktr.ee/polygonalphapodcast
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Arkham Intelligence
Arkham is an intelligence platform that provides information on the real-world entities and individuals behind crypto market activity.Capabilities - Some things you can do with Arkham:
* See the entities & individuals behind pseudonymous crypto wallet addresses
* See what top traders/investors are doing in real time & using historical data
* Predict future market movements by using on-chain data to track the flow of funds
* Track your portfolio and historical performance
* Conduct due diligence
* Conduct research on & observe illicit fund flows - on-chain sleuthing
* Inform your research & reporting using real-time on-chain data & analytics
Features - The platform is currently in Beta & is constantly evolving with new features added regularly
* Entity Page: See a complete view of the activities of any entity or address. You can view their portfolio, historical balances, exchange usage, P&L, and top counterparties, as well as a list of transactions which can be sorted and filtered
* Visualizer: Translate raw, blockchain transactions into clear network maps.
* Dashboards: Build & share unique dashboards of these entities and addresses.
* Filtering: You can filter and sort transactions across the platform to only see what you want to see. You can filter and sort by: time, counterparty, token, token amount, & USD Value.
* Alerts: Set custom alerts for on & off-chain activity & view their history against pricing & other important signals
* Explorer: Full block explorer. View specific details on any transaction.
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Polygon Alpha Podcast - Episode 0023 - November 15th, 2022
Tarun Chitra - Gauntlet Network & Aera FinanceLinkTree - https://linktr.ee/polygonalphapodcast
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Aera Finance
- The notion of “finance for the people” can be traced back to the days of ancient Rome.
- Aera is derived from the word Aerarium, a public treasury in Rome, housed in the Temple of Saturn and associated with wealth in Roman mythology.
- As a central clearinghouse, it managed and balanced all public accounts.
- Aera is the world’s first autonomous, data-driven treasury management protocol.
- Automatic. By rebalancing the portfolio automatically, the treasury may be managed in a timely manner across bear and bull markets.
- Data-Driven. Funds may be rebalanced based on actual DAO protocol liabilities and market conditions. By using this data, DAOs are better able to maintain assets to cover liabilities at any given time, while also benefiting from growth in the market.
- Transparent. Third party Guardians submit work publicly, on-chain to ensure your goals are met. In addition, historical performance and amount staked will all be visible.
- Decentralized. Every day, experienced Guardians compete to propose the best combination of assets in your portfolio. This is weighted algorithmically and executed on chain.
- Lower the cost of borrowing. Because there is increased confidence the treasury can cover the loan book, interest rates may be lowered as less capital is required to be kept in reserves or insurance funds.
- Increase Capital Efficiency. With increased confidence that DAO treasuries can cover the liabilities, protocols may decide to lower collateral requirements.
- Spend less on liquidity. Make sure your treasury has the liquidity it needs in the most adverse of times.
- Minimize governance. With Aera, DAOs can effectively manage their treasuries with the assistance of a decentralized network of Vault Guardians.
- Aera works with Gauntlet and Auditless to set the standard for DeFi intelligence with cutting-edge research, pushing the limits of decentralized treasury management.
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Polygon Alpha Podcast - Episode 0023 - November 10th, 2022
Mario Zavala - Revert Finance
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Revert Finance
- Time-vested incentives programs for Uniswap v3
- While Uniswap v2 was prime farming land in the summer of 2020, incentivizing liquidity on Uniswap v3 has not yet taken off.
- Revert develops analytics and management tools for liquidity providers in AMM protocols.
- Incentivizing liquidity in Uniswap v3 has not really worked out as well as a lot of us expected.
- The v3staker is a brilliant mechanism, and security-wise it also leaps ahead of what we had in the Uni v2 days.
- Instead of a thousand different forks, one for each farm, we have a canonical contract where any project can create an incentive program and any LP can stake.
- This contract can (and has been) audited, and there is no need to verify each new reward contract individually.
- The problem is that by deploying liquidity in a very narrow price range, a proportionally small amount of capital can capture most of the rewards
- The dominating strategy, as seen in the Ribbon liquidity mining program, is to automate the creation of very narrow positions to maximize rewards capture.
- This leads to mercenary liquidity instead of rewarding long term holders and LPs.
- We think there’s a simple solution to this problem: having a reward vest over a certain period.
- This prevents the ultra-concentrated strategy from being successful as it would quickly go out-of-range and without having vested their rewards
- Revert is going to test this out by incentivizing 8 Uniswap V3 pools on Polygon with 150k MATIC over 28 days, ending on December 21.
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Audio from the October 26, 2022 installment of “Polygon Alpha” with John Paller, Executive Steward at OpolisLinkTree - https://linktr.ee/polygonalphapodcast
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Opollis
- The Employment Commons is a Limited Cooperative Association registered in the State of Colorado.
- Its purpose is to provide Benefits, Payroll and Shared Services for independent workers like solopreneurs, sole-practitioners, independent contractors, gig workers, digital nomads, freelancers and the like.
- Opolis, Inc. is the elected “Trustee” which provides services (administrative, marketing, technology) to the Commons and its Members.
- Together we are the Opolis Employment Commons - The legal name of the cooperative is The Employment Commons, LCA.
- “The Commons” is a term we use to refer to this entity and is one in the same. - Anyone who self-identifies as a freelancer, solopreneur, sole-practitioner, gig worker, independent contractor, digital nomad and the like.
- We have Members who are real estate agents, therapists, software developers, designers, clergy, teachers, consultants & more.
- Opolis is neutral to the work you do and provides a toolset that almost everyone needs (and probably already pays too much for!)
- Employee Members are individuals who are co-employed by an entity that they control and the Employment Commons.
- These Members are consistently paid semi-monthly through the platform.
- Employee Members are also the only voting Members of the Employment Commons.
- They may earn a louder voice through WORK Rewards as they consume services and as the community grows.
- This class of Member is currently only available to those qualified to work in the United States.
- A Contributing Member is someone who contributes value to the Opolis Employment Commons in ways other than being an Employee Member, such as: a referral source, a channel partner, a technology contributor and/or a WORK Rewards staker.
- They do not hold employment or consume Shared Services from the Commons.
- They are, however, included as Members in the WORK Rewards program and patronage calculation for potential distribution of profits/dividends should they come available.
- It is important to note that Employee Members can also contribute to the Commons in the above ways.
- Non-Member Contributors are those who participate in referrals or staking activities without going through the formal process of becoming a Member.
- These parties will be qualified to receive WORK Rewards, but will not be qualified for patronage-based dividends or profit sharing should they become available. - Currently, Employee Membership is limited to individuals who are qualified to work in the United States.
- Opolis are expanding to Ontario and British Columbia provinces in Canada on January 1, 2023.
- Those residing outside of the United States, and those not able to be or interested in being Employee Members, may become Contributing Members.
- There is a 1% Community Fee which Members pay that is calculated by the total consumption of your services (payroll + benefits).
- This number will also match the number provided to you on your periodic billing statement from Opolis.
- There are no subscription fees or other hidden fees to worry about.
- No catch.
- The next generation of platforms will be owned by its users. We call them “Members”.
- Opolis is on the forefront of this movement and believe it is the path to a whole new generation of value creation for people.~~~~
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