1/ Aera vault owners saved ~$2.7M during the recent market shock.
How?
By proactively spinning up an Aera vault, treasury managers employ various strategies that continuously diversify their funds. By diversifying amid calm periods, treasuries can withstand stormy ones.
Today we're proud to announce Aera, the world’s first autonomous, data-driven treasury management protocol. Aera will provide DAOs with a one-stop solution for managing their token reserves efficiently and transparently.
gm = good morning, ga = general availability. Aera is ready for primetime, and today we're excited to share news of our $8M token sale. We're about to enable every DAO on the planet to optimize its treasury with autonomous onchain treasury management
Aera's pilot proposal for
@MoonwellDeFi
is now live for a governance vote! We are excited about this opportunity to launch risk-aware treasury management for Moonwell Apollo and invite the community to participate.
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The
@GearboxProtocol
DAO has voted to use Aera to manage a portion of its treasury. It has deposited ~$1M into a non-custodial Aera vault (split between WETH, DAI & USDC) and will use Aera to automate management and optimize yield on those funds.
This
Are you an LRT, Operator, or restaking service provider wondering how you’ll actively manage the incoming medley of restaking rewards? Will you convert native rewards to base assets? Restake them?
Our vaults offer a simple, automated solution without you giving up custody.
We're supporting
@swellnetworkio
’s launch of swBTC!
Our flexible, non-custodial architecture is uniquely equipped to back LRT platforms as the restaking ecosystem evolves. Swell's Aera vault will handle deployment of swBTC across restaking protocols like
@symbioticfi
.
Using an
Introducing swBTC! ✨
The first Bitcoin LRT to offer restaking yield from the Ethereum ecosystem, including
@Symbioticfi
(
@EigenLayer
and
@Karak_Network
coming soon).
Restake WBTC to earn 3x Black Pearls and Symbiotic Points.
To learn more join our AMA on October 19, 2022, at 11 AM EST. Questions about the whitepaper, launch, specifications, and other related topics will be answered
Drop questions below
Aera combines tools from automated market making and algorithmic game theory to provide practical treasury management solutions for DAOs. In this thread, we review how these ideas are applied to the mechanism of aggregating and scoring treasury allocation proposals.
New blog post on the use-case of Aera for liability hedging! To highlight the advantages of customizable hedging, we contrast this with simpler treasury management strategies like fixed or ad hoc diversification.
Aera's pilot proposal for
@MoonwellDeFi
is now live for a Snapshot vote! We are excited about this opportunity to deploy risk-aware treasury management for Moonwell Apollo and invite the community to participate in the poll.
Vote here ➡️
Aera has submitted a pilot proposal to the
@MoonwellDeFi
forums for Apollo! We are very excited to drive growth and optimize Apollo’s reserves, please check out our post and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
Of course we're at
#ETHDenver2024
, isn't everyone? Victor, Head of Models at
@gauntlet_xyz
will be presenting on Aera at
@Panoptic_xyz
DeFi Derivatives Summit (3/1) so find us there, or in dms and we'll set a time to chat
We are excited to announce a successful vote for an Aera pilot vault with
@MoonwellDefi
!
As proposed, the vault was funded with 250k USDC of Moonwell Apollo reserves and set to target 15% volatility. Key stats can be monitored using the dashboard below:
Aera has submitted a pilot proposal to the
@MoonwellDeFi
forums for Apollo! We are very excited to drive growth and optimize Apollo’s reserves, please check out our post and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
Trustless peer-to-peer lending contracts like
@compoundfinance
@AaveAave
@MakerDAO
collectively held over $20 billion in assets in July 2022
Compared to TradFi, these protocols are capital *inefficient* due to a lack of persistent user identities (or credit) and insurance
New blog post breaks down the value of Aera as a solution for on-chain optimization!
By helping protocols manage future needs through uncertainty, Aera will unlock efficiency gains and new possibilities for users.
To illustrate the concepts of Protocol-Owned Execution and Volatility Targeting described in the report, we present a mini case study on how
@TheTNetwork
has diversified its treasury with an Aave V2 vault. 🔍 ⬇️
This week, we published an in-depth report on DAO treasury management for
@arbitrum
.
We discuss how DAOs can maximize the value of their treasury via Protocol-Owned Execution, which optimizes the swapping of treasury assets into a diversified portfolio of tokens for spending. 👇
We recently posted a proposal to migrate the Apollo Vault of
@MoonwellDeFi
from Aera V1 to V2 maintaining the 15% volatility targeting strategy.
Our Aera V1 vault for Moonwell Apollo is now worth $290k, a 16% increase from the initial allocation of 250k.
Some V2 Facts 👇🧵 1/4
To learn more join our AMA on October 19, 2022, at 11 AM EST. Questions about the whitepaper, launch, specifications, and other related topics will be answered as best as possible. Submit your questions here:
Coming off recent peaks of ~$250B assets locked in smart contracts, it is natural to ask what primitives are needed to reach a multi-trillion dollar market size.
🔵 New Strategy Blog - Stablecoin Yield 🔵
Stablecoins provide a stable store of value that is crucial in DeFi — they can also be a source of yield.
Onchain treasuries can improve their long-term financial health by staking and lending their stables across blue-chip protocols
Reaching consensus on all DAO objectives can be challenging but one objective should be clearer than others.
If there is an insurance fund, the DAO must ensure treasury assets are worth more than the liabilities held by the protocol.
1/ Volatility targeting, or “vol targeting,” is one of many treasury management strategies available on Aera. Vol targeting strategies automatically adjust vault allocations to manage against risk, as measured by volatility.
Read on to learn more 🧵
Vault owners now have better visibility into their strategy on their dashboard all in one place:
- Total amount transacted
- Daily amount transacted
- Trade fees incurred + slippage
How it Works:
DAOs access a self-custodial Aera vault where they can deposit token reserves
Third-party Guardians suggest rebalances to the vault across a set of approved assets, seeking to optimize for protocol objectives
Funds are available for treasury spending at any time
Stakeholders:
Vault Guardians submit parameters to an Aera vault to define the allocation of assets in the vault
Client Protocol (DAO) makes allocations to plan for future expenses or commitments.
Arbitrageurs execute the rebalancing by trading assets with the vault
DAOversified Episode 2 is live, featuring
@gauntlet_xyz
! ⚙️
Shaan, their Head of Product, explores:
• The nuts and bolts of Gauntlet
• How it safeguards DeFi powerhouses like
@AaveAave
and
@compoundfinance
• Demystifying
@aerafinance
👉 Tune in:
V2 Aera vaults can now be viewed on !
Currently, the app shows a number of test vaults, as well as the first production vault for
@TheTNetwork
. Users can see key statistics around vault performance and the rebalancing between vault assets.
Bootstrapping onchain liquidity with Liquidity Mining and Protocol-Owned Liquidity
Liquidity is the lifeblood of any DeFi protocol, ensuring efficient markets, price stability, and the existence of available onramps for new holders.
Protocols have two main strategies to
Benefits:
Capital Efficiency - With better treasury mgmt., protocols may lower fees and extend more loans
Reduce Operating Costs - Aera can help avoid costly overhead in treasury planning
Minimize governance - Aera can reduce the governance workload of day-to-day operations
Our Stablecoin Yield strategy dashboard got an upgrade. The following data is now available:
- Position value
- Annual estimated yield (USD)
- Realized average Yield (7D moving average)
- Integrated protocols
- Historical rates
This week, we published an in-depth report on DAO treasury management for
@arbitrum
.
We discuss how DAOs can maximize the value of their treasury via Protocol-Owned Execution, which optimizes the swapping of treasury assets into a diversified portfolio of tokens for spending. 👇
If your treasury stakes ETH for the rewards, you may be leaving money on the table.
Here's how onchain treasuries can use Aera's non-custodial vaults to unlock better performance with a levered ETH staking strategy.
Let’s use 1 wETH to simplify the example. You could stake that
Driving Long-Term Protocol Growth Through Liquidity Mining and POL
Efficient capital management and liquidity provision are central to the sustainability and growth of DeFi protocols. Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) and Liquidity Mining have emerged as key strategies embraced by
We believe protocols will be able to outsource almost any complex optimization problem to a specialized Aera vault.
By helping automate these tasks, we hope to promote efficient and transparent decision-making to drive sustainable protocol growth.
Improving capital efficiency in decentralized markets is uniquely challenging. While the problem of planning for future expenses is present in both traditional and DeFi markets, it is difficult for DAOs to manage treasury funds efficiently with current mechanisms.
Today, Aera is in alpha. In Q1, there will be opportunities for beta customers and guardians to join. In the longer term, we see Aera as a robust optimization platform for all sorts of applications.
While some DeFi derivatives and hedging products do exist, there is no one-click solution for DAO treasury needs. Finally, DAOs managing their treasury through internal governance is also problematic because it requires a lot of active decision-making.
DeFi apps have a cold-start problem.
👉 They can bootstrap liquidity via Liquidity Mining (LM) and/or Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL)
👉 POL is cheaper & more stable, but hard to manage
👉 Aera can automate POL/LM strategies in a non-custodial way
@Gabe_PZ
's talk
@EthCC
⤵️
Aera is the world’s first noncustodial, autonomous, continuously rebalancing treasury management protocol, built specifically for DAOs and onchain funds.
Today, we explore two powerful features integrated into every Aera vault:
1️⃣ Non-custodial ownership
2️⃣ No withdrawal
1/ Seamless allocated 2 million SEAM to an Aera vault to diversify its treasury and bootstrap onchain liquidity with a Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) strategy.
As the largest native lend/borrow protocol on Base, we are delighted that Seamless is using a noncustodial, autonomous
"...portfolio management is an optimization problem, and it's an optimization problem that may not have a fixed goal. If it was a fixed diversification you could put it in a fixed Balancer pool, eat the arb loss, but you'll keep yourself at the target forever" -
@tarunchitra
Traditional institutions can allocate funds to more nimble managers who make day-to-day decisions or use derivatives for hedging, but DAOs don't have suitable analogues. Strong incentive alignment with external managers is hard to achieve with the current DeFi infrastructure.
Many DAOs wrestle with the question of how to distribute grants efficiently. Using a native token is convenient, but likely inefficient due to recipients selling their tokens at suboptimal prices.
Read on to see how Aera can help DAOs get the most out of their grants budget 🧵👇
If you're wondering how to bootstrap your protocol, check out our recent blog on how POL and Liquidity Mining strategies can be run through an Aera vault.
The blog covers:
🔹 How Aera works
🔹 POL through Aera
🔹 Liquidity mining through Aera
🔹 Joint optimization
Link👇
EigenDA is rolling out mainnet rewards, and our customers' vaults are primed for action.
@puffer_finance
's Aera vault claimed 0.004564 WETH without their team needing to lift a finger, and it's capable of much more.
Aera's programmable, non-custodial vaults can seamlessly
1/ Among the various strategies available on Aera, "low-liquidity asset diversification" is notable for its ability to diversify a treasury’s assets with minimal slippage and price impact.
Read our blog to learn more about how Aera can support your treasury management goals. 👇
Our newly expanded one-sided trade execution strategy dashboard shows details on:
- Position price (upper/lower)
- Cumulative tokens sold over time
- Token amount transacted
- Total fees generated for the protocol
We’re proud to have been selected by the Arbitrum Foundation last month for a treasury management research grant. We’re working with
@arbitrum
on research covering key DAO treasury management areas: 👇
1/ Earlier this month, we published a blog outlining Aera’s low-liquidity asset diversification strategy and how onchain treasuries can use it to rebalance their treasury with minimal slippage and price impact.
Here’s how the strategy works on Aera 👇🧵
What are the parallels between Aera and futarchy?
Both systems use automated market makers to allow participants to make informed bets on the future, with the goal of optimizing eventual outcomes.
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand why futarchy didn't work (I'd recommend this
@VitalikButerin
's post from 2014 for an intro) and tried to figure out if we've learned enough from DeFi over the last 3 years to overcome those failures
1/ Last week, Questbook deposited 3.3 million $ARB tokens into an Aera vault to diversify its treasury into $USDC.
Questbook plays an essential role within the crypto ecosystem, facilitating onchain grants.
Read on for how Aera is supporting this mission👇🧵
aka why DAO and other crypto treasuries need well-designed strategies to meet long-term and short-term goals.
The first goal is always: Manage Risk Of Ruin
And it's built into every strategy running on Aera
1/ Earlier this month, we published a blog outlining Aera’s low-liquidity asset diversification strategy and how onchain treasuries can use it to rebalance their treasury with minimal slippage and price impact.
Here’s how the strategy works on Aera 👇🧵
To learn more join our AMA on October 19, 2022, at 11 AM EST. Questions about the whitepaper, launch, specifications, and other related topics will be answered
Drop questions below
In Oct 2023, the
@compoundfinance
community deposited a portion of the DAO's accumulated reserves in a pilot Aera vault, with the goal of swapping less-liquid assets into a highly liquid and yield-generating asset mix. Read on for an update on how the vault has done so far 👇
We are studying ways to mitigate treasury token price impact, best practices for diversification and yield generation, and DAO-specific use cases. Stay tuned: we’ll be publishing the results of our work in the coming weeks.
Many protocols use stake-based reserve funds to cover shortfalls. Ideally, the reserve fund provides the needed stability to deploy competitive features and attract more users and capital.
@LewellenMichael
@gauntletnetwork
@aerafinance
@numerai
There’s a lot they share in common but:
1. As Aera does everything on-chain, it’s a closed loop system (Numerai separates prediction/strategy from execution, which is done by a centralized entity)
2. Our grading scheme is very different (and we support many objectives)
🌉 Using Bitcoin in DeFi just got an upgrade!
@dlcBTC
🤝
@aerafinance
= Smart liquidity optimization across chains
What's in it for BTC holders? Let's break it down 🧵
What should DAOs do?
*Incentivize* allocations outside of governance
*Require buy-in* from participants changing asset compositions to have skin-in-the-game
*Reward* participants who improve a DAO’s welfare (i.e. institutional objectives)
@SeamlessFi
@base
3/ Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL)
Employing a POL strategy will enable Seamless to build onchain SEAM liquidity. The approach initially uses a single-sided position to drive buy-side liquidity. As the position is diversified, it will develop a 50/50 position to build liquidity
6/ We are thrilled to be a part of Questbook's mission to support grant programs and foster sustainable growth in DeFi.
To learn more about Aera, check out .
2/ DAOs that didn't diversify their treasuries were left in a tough spot over the last week. While crypto markets crashed, their runways and operating budgets followed suit.
By diversifying into non-native tokens, treasuries remained healthy and avoided the worst of the market
Once guardians submit their allocations, an aggregation rule constructs a single portfolio that Aera then executes trades to enter. This can be thought of as a generalization of rules used in price oracles, such as
@chainlink
medianizer or
@PythNetwork
confidence weighted rule
1/ Continuous autonomous rebalancing is among the powerful treasury management features available in all Aera strategies.
Why is this important and how does it work?
1️⃣ Set-and-forget governance
2️⃣ Continuous treasury management
3️⃣ Integrated in all Aera strategies
Let’s
Joining us is
@the_diamondrock
to provide colour into how, why, and where they see Aera supporting the treasury and risk management goals of
@BenqiFinance
!
As a DeFi treasury management protocol, Aera provides self-custodial vaults that optimize treasury assets for client DAOs.
Self-custody is essential to the nature of Aera - a vault can only act in very specific ways that are approved by the vault owner.
@SeamlessFi
@base
4/ Why is Seamless using Aera?
Leveraging Aera’s non-custodial and autonomous treasury management protocol, Seamless is positioning its treasury for long-term stability while driving ecosystem growth.
To learn more about Aera, we invite you to explore ,
We'll be there! Aera is designed with the flexibility to autonomously and noncustodially deliver on virtually any strategy for a DAO treasury or onchain fund. This includes POL, and Aera can enable this without a tradeoff between centralization and getting rekt
Join us on X Spaces next week where we'll chat with our friends from
@Bancor
and
@tokengineering
about protocol-owned liquidity, concentrated liquidity, and algorithmic mech design.
@Gabe_PZ
will share about what we've been cooking on the POL front
@SeamlessFi
@base
2/ Low-liquidity asset diversification
A derivative of TWAP, the Seamless vault uses low-liquidity asset diversification to swap $SEAM for $USDC with minimal slippage and price impact to diversify its assets and stabilize its treasury.
Read more about how this strategy works
Protocols continually seek innovative solutions to enhance liquidity and optimize treasury management. Aera can help you implement strategies to do just that.
Aera constructs a competition amongst guardians who submit DAO treasury allocations.
To participate, vault guardians stake assets that can be slashed if their allocation causes the DAO to suffer a loss.
The snapshot has concluded with ~57% of votes in favor of an Aera pilot with Aggressive Risk tolerance. This was the most voted-on snapshot in Moonwell Apollo history and we thank everyone for the engagement! We will next be kicking off a governance vote targeting May 16th.
Aera has submitted a pilot proposal to the
@MoonwellDeFi
forums for Apollo! We are very excited to drive growth and optimize Apollo’s reserves, please check out our post and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
Time Scale Separation: Futarchy has been critiqued for having a ‘whale problem’ where a single buyer can buy most of one side of the market. Aera avoids this by splitting vault operations into many short-term rebalancing decisions, which are very costly to manipulate at scale.
5/ Vault rebalancing
The Aera Guardian submits rebalance transactions against the vault to swap ARB for USDC. Execution is done in batches to prevent an outsized price impact.
Improving capital efficiency within the decentralized realm is significantly more challenging than in TradFi markets due, in part, to a lack of identity
One common way to improve capital efficiency is to have protocol insurance funds that cover deemed shortfall events
Protocol-Owned Execution is a perfect use case for Aera’s onchain treasury management vaults. DAOs can open a vault and rebalance into a specific mix of assets that can be used to fund grant operations. The DAO could then distribute grants directly from the non-custodial vault.
@AaveAave
and
@synthetix_io
both rely on these stake-based insurance funds to ensure that trading or borrowing risky assets is safe for suppliers
However, under duress, these funds may run into failure conditions when covering their liabilities in a depreciating native token