Stellar Community Fund

By Slender

Slender

Liquidity Award - '24 Q1

$50.0K

Liquidity Award

Awarded

Slender is a universal money market built for the Soroban blockchain. Slender allows lenders to earn passively, while borrowers enjoy the on-chain risk management, and dynamic interest rates, can use collateral portfolios and RWAs to secure loans

Products & Services

Soroban, like every other emerging ecosystem, needs basic DeFi primitives like AMMs and Lending Protocols. Slender secures the niche of lending protocols, providing flexible and robust open-source technology for other teams and protocols to build on. Regarding banking the unbanked, Slender is positioned to offer DeFi analogs of TradFi’s savings accounts for mobile users without access to the traditional banking system.

Soroban

Yes

Requested Budget

$50.0K

Go-To-Market Plan

Deploy to Soroban mainnet.
Announce the protocol launch.
1. Joint comms with Stellar (announcement, AMA, campaign on socials)
2. Joint announcement regarding the audit completion with Certora
3. Push PR articles in tier-1/tier-2 media
Launch a points campaign for users to perform simple tasks: subscribe, join social, and provide liquidity.
Work on foundational partnerships and integrations within the Stellar eco. Preliminary list:
1. Lobster wallet
2. Cables (Fx swap)
3. A few DeFi wallets (beans etc)
4. HiYield (t-bills / RWA)
5. Stablecoins (via Axelar and others)
6. Raum Network
7. Midas network
Do BD work around integrating RWA protocols launching on Soroban mainnet to enable their as collateral assets.
Cater professional grade loans to RWA collateral holders. Develop UI/UX accordingly.
Cater retail-grade loans to the general public via a mobile APP. Develop UI/UX accordingly.
Announce token launch and the TGE.
Develop/deploy governance and protocol management infrastructure.
Make Slender protocol self-sustainable and decentralized. Token holders should be ultimate decision makers and beneficiaries of the protocol.