Liquidity, capital efficiency, and leverage are the backbone of DeFi protocols.
Many #DeFi protocols rely on unsustainable incentives that hinder their platform's growth
However, @SenecaUSD aims to change this by serving as a CDP platform for yield-bearing assets.
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1️⃣ What is Seneca?
▪️ Seneca is an omnichain lending market, CDP platform for yield bearing assets on Arbitrum
▪️ With its omnichain lending market, Seneca aims to unlock liquidity for these assets by allowing users to deposit them as collateral & borrow its stablecoin, senUSD.
2️⃣ Why Seneca has potential
▪️ There is currently $50.37 billion ETH staked, creating significant demand for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs).
▪️ Seneca has whitelisted LSTs as one of the yield-bearing assets, allowing users to borrow $senUSD to maximize capital efficiency while earning yield.
▪️ Additionally, other yield-bearing assets such as LPs, vault tokens, and deposit receipts can also be used as collateral.
3️⃣ How does it work?
1/ Deposit your yield-bearing assets on Seneca as collateral.
2/ Borrow senUSD against your deposited assets.
3/ Use senUSD to acquire more yield-bearing assets for deposit.
4/ Keep all your yield and only pay interest on the borrowed amount.
5/ Set your loan-to-value ratio and repay the loan at your convenience.
4️⃣ Seneca's revenue model
▪️ Seneca generates revenue through various streams, including borrow fees, interest accrued by open positions, and liquidation fees.
▪️ Borrow fees and interest rates vary depending on the pool, with higher LTV pools using higher rates to compensate for higher demand.
▪️ The protocol receives 10% of the total fee as its share of the liquidation fees.
5️⃣ Tokenomics
[1] SEN token
SEN is the native token of Seneca Protocol
Total supply: 100M
▪️ 17% for Seneca foundation: 5% unlocked TGE, 2-year linear vesting
▪️ 7.5% for community incentives: 5% unlocked TGE, 1-year linear vesting
▪️ 7.5% for Dao: 1-year linear vesting
▪️ 6% for airdrop: 10% unlocked TGE, 3-month linear vesting
▪️ 4% for early contributors: 10% unlocked TGE, 3-month linear vesting
▪️ 8% private sale:
▪️ 15% Omnichain liquidity: 4M $SEN unlocked for initial liquidity
▪️ 35% Incentives: 5% unlocked TGE, 4 year linear vesting
[2] veSEN token
▪️ veSEN is Vote-escrow token of SEN that is used access revenue redistribution and vote on governance proposals.
▪️ veSEN is obtained by locking SEN/WETH liquidity on Balancer 80:20 for 16 weeks
[3] senUSD
▪️ senUSD is a CDP stablecoin that is loosely pegged to $1.
▪️ Users can borrow senUSD by depositing assets as collateral or purchase senUSD on Dexes.
[4] Token utility
▪️ Seneca Protocol redistributes half of lending market revenues to veSEN **holders in SEN as real yield.
▪️ Weekly revenue redistribution is processed each Thursday
▪️ Half of the lending market revenues will be used to buy SEN from the open market and burn it.
▪️ Join the Senate and vote on new collateral whitelisting and protocol parameter changes.
6️⃣ Upcoming on Seneca
▪️ Seneca is scheduled to launch its dApp on November 8th, following a thorough audit.