What are you building?: Vesper Finance is a multi-chain yield aggregator offering users secure opportunities to generate yield on their crypto assets in a non-custodial manner. Vesper emphasizes safety and simplicity with 50+ smart contract audits and a sleek, intuitive UI.
Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?:
We believe DeFi as a whole is still in its infancy, but that in the years ahead it will play a pivotal role in global finance. Everything we build is based upon this premise, and we are constantly trying to create both for what DeFi represents today, and what we envision it will look like ten years from now.
We have focused our energy on three main components: Security, user experience, and competitive yield opportunities.
Security: To our knowledge, Vesper is the most externally audited DeFi protocol in existence. We have had 50+ external audits on our code base, and in our two years since launch have never had a security incident where user funds were in jeopardy. If a user feels secure in the protocol they are using, they are likely to continue using it for the long term.
User experience: We intentionally designed the user experience to be elegant, functional, and approachable. Vesper is positioned to attract both the DeFi native as well as the newcomer.
Competitive yield: With dozens of strategies across multiple chains, combined with a low fee structure, Vesper yields often match or exceed competing protocol’s similar products.
Vesper additionally differentiates itself as “DeFi Middleware” which consists of straightforward integrations for third party projects to pass off yield to their users as well as supporting already-productive assets (ie. LSD) with premium yield opportunities.
Our core pillars above separate Vesper as the premier destination for users and integrations alike. We’ve recently seen growing activity and TVL on mainnet as a result; this is energy we are confident we can carry and grow into the Optimism ecosystem.