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Dive into Bifrost 2.0 & Bifrost SLP x Use cases For Builders
🚀 Today, let’s check out @Bifrost - ecosystem partner with a DeFi track at the Polkadot Vietnam Hackathon 2024—and see how it can help Hackathon participants level up in DeFi!
📌 What is Bifrost?
Bifrost is a Liquid Staking app-chain built for various blockchains using the Polkadot SDK. It’s the largest liquid staking protocol on Polkadot, Kusama, Astar, Moonbeam, and Manta, with a TVL of $63M and annual revenue of $1.5M. Bifrost's token, BNC, has a fixed supply of 80M with no inflation.
In the second half of 2024, the Bifrost Team's core mission is to launch Bifrost 2.0, focusing on:
🪙 New tokenomics
🔗 Merging Bifrost Kusama and Bifrost Polkadot parachains
🛠️ Decentralizing the Bifrost Polkadot Collator set
🌐 Ensuring EVM compatibility and cross-chain connectivity with Ethereum and its L2
🚀 BNC 2.0 launch campaign
🔗 Bifrost SLPx
Currently, Bifrost features three main products: Liquid Staking, SLPx, and Analytics.
📌Especially since SLP, the module for minting and redeeming vTokens on Bifrost, requires asset transfers to Bifrost, which can be inconvenient. SLPx, a new extension pallet, allows users to:
🔄 Mint vTokens on a remote chain
💸 Redeem vTokens on a remote chain
🌉 Swap vTokens or tokens on a remote chain using Bifrost’s liquidity
👉 For developers, integrating SLPx involves only a few lines of code. Once integrated, developers can use remote calls to access minting, redemption, and swap services for vTokens on the Bifrost-Polkadot chain.
🚀 Use Cases of SLPx
These use cases are inspired by the ETHshenzhen Hackathon:
1️⃣Project Launch Pad: 🚀
Create a platform to raise funds by locking vTokens, offering Staking Rewards, and returning vTokens after lock-up.
2️⃣Lossless Prediction Market: 🔮
Develop a market where users pool vToken rewards and earn from predictions on prices or events.
3️⃣vToken Router: 🔄
Design a router for managing vToken transfers and staking, such as batching DOT to Bifrost and using vDOT in LoopStake.
4️⃣vToken NFT Gaming: 🎮
Build a game where users earn NFTs based on milestones like “First 10 vToken Mint” in an SLPx-supported environment.
5️⃣ vToken Social Media Tool: 💬
Create tools to enable tipping or subscribing to posts using vTokens on social media platforms like Twitter(X).
🔥 We hope these use cases inspire innovative ideas for the upcoming Hackathon and drive impactful solutions in the DeFi space.
Reference:
📌 ETHshenzhen Hackathon Documentation
📌 Bifrost Tokenomics 2.0 (bbBNC) Proposal
💬 To discuss more, join our Discord!
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