Cork Protocol

@Corkprotocol

The rails for risk Price, hedge and transfer any observable onchain risk Backed by @RoadCapMgmt and @a16zcrypto CSX

Ethereum

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Joined March 2024

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Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol
Jan 21
Cork has raised $5.5M to build the missing tokenized risk infrastructure for digital assets. Led by @RoadCapMgmt and @a16zcrypto CSX, Cork has raised from investors who recognize the market opportunity of introducing tokenized risk into the digital asset ecosystem.
Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol
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Great writeup from @goatv_bk on what makes capital actually stick in DeFi. The core argument: incentives bring capital in, but agents decide whether it stays. And that changes what protocols compete on. Not how high the APY goes, but whether an agent picks you at all. Priced
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@goatv_bk
Aug 19
Article
Why agents can make Base a better financial ecosystem
There's a question that keeps coming up in this space over and over again: how do you actually attract sticky TVL? For years, DeFi has been built around mercenary capital. Users come to farm high APY,...
Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol
23h
A liquidity buffer is capital that stands between a redemption request and a slow asset. When a protocol needs to honor redemptions, the constraint is rarely solvency. The assets exist. They are in something that takes time to exit, and the queue forms faster than the exit
Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol
Aug 20
At Arbitrum Open House, Cork, @bondoncredit and @Zyfai_ got two AI agents to price and settle a risk contract onchain, with real capital and no human approving the trade. One agent wanted coverage on a position it couldn't hold, the other priced it. It cleared on @arbitrum.
Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol
Aug 19
Every vault curator in DeFi is already underwriting risk. Most are doing it for free. When a vault goes live, curators are taking the position that the risks will not fire, and accepting the loss if they do. Effectively, that is an underwriting position. Curators carry that