Vesper Finance

Parallel's mission is to innovate and bring DeFi to the next level. We are creating the most secure and easy-to-use decentralized platform to empower everyone access to financial services. Simply supply the assets, we optimize the best yield for you and you don't have to do all the complicated DeFi stuff, in a secure and decentralized way. Our platform introduces a new financial primitive for staked DOT, which allows users to accrue interest from staking while still having a liquid asset not subject to lockups or lengthy unlock periods. This staked DOT financial primitive will be referred to as xDOT. Lenders will be able to earn interest income on their xDOT, and borrowers will be able to get loans against their DOT denominated in stable coins without selling their DOT. The Parallel lending protocol uses a pool-based strategy that aggregates each user's supplied assets. This lending protocol will have a DOT, sDOT, and USDT pool where users can deposit their assets and earn interest.

Apricot Lend provides standard lending and borrowing services: users deposit assets to earn interests, and use their deposited assets as collateral to borrow other assets. Apricot X-Farm provides cross-margin leveraged yield farming service for users to maximize yield from their existing holdings. Let's take USDT-USDC LP farming for example. In other leveraged yield farming protocols, users would need to own some amount of USDT and USDC before they can start farming the stablecoin pair. If they do not have USDT and USDC sitting in their wallet, they would have to swap other tokens into these stablecoins first. On Apricot X-Farm, users do not need to own any amount of USDT or USDC to start farming. Instead, they can collateralize their non-stablecoin assets to borrow the stablecoins with up to 3x leverage, and start farming USDT-USDC LP right away. These stablecoins will then be auto-pooled and staked for LP tokens, resulting in 3x farming yield.