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Tracer DAO raises $4.5M to launch derivatives for anything ‘with an oracle feed’

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Decentralized derivatives platform, Tracer DAO, has introduced a profitable $4.5 million fundraising spherical to increase its group and product suite.

They hope to launch progressive derivatives for “any market with an oracle price feed,” with plans to at some point permit unusual shoppers to hedge the price of commuting and different family payments utilizing tokenized derivatives.

This week’s elevate noticed participation from crypto enterprise heavyweights, together with Framework Ventures, Maven 11, DACM, and Apollo Capital. The traders will share 10% of the challenge’s governance token provide, which can be vested linearly over two years.

Talking to Cointelegraph, Pat McNab, Tracer DAO founder and co-founder of Mycelium — the Australian improvement group working to construct Tracer DAO — emphasised that the group is at the moment working to launch v1 of its open-source perpetual swap contracts to Arbitrum mainnet within the coming months.

McNab described the swaps as standing out from the competitors by its “highly capital efficient” design and distinctive insurance coverage pool that permits anybody to “become an insurer for the protocol and earn interest.”

“For each perpetual swap market there will be an underlying insurance pool […] that insurance pool collects funding payments in the form of an interest rate paid by traders,” he stated, including:

“If a trader goes under margin and there is counterparty risk, this is when the insurers funds will have to be used.”

Tracer can also be at the moment working to launch leveraged tokens, predicting they may go stay earlier than the top of the yr. Tracer DAO additionally plans to maintain a public elevate through Gnosis Public sale within the coming months.

Wanting ahead, Tracer articulates a daring mission of enabling derivatives for “any market that has an oracle feed,” with McNab emphasizing the chance to use cryptocurrency to unlock new markets tied to real-world belongings.

“We’re working with Chainlink currently on trying to aggregate fuel pricing data or gas pricing data around different jurisdictions such that, say, in a neo-banking app, consumers can effectively budget for their fuel consumption by buying into a derivatives position using a perpetual swap contract,” he stated.

“Our vision for price feeds, especially in the real world […] will certainly tend down the path of having consumers able to hedge their consumption to local goods markets.”

McNab added that Tracer is at the moment working with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Expertise to “unpack how the water markets work within Australia, especially to determine if we can create more ways for people to effectively manage their risk when it comes to consuming water on a day-to-day basis.”

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