Maverick Protocol Raised $8 Million In Strategic Round

 Maverick, an innovative permissionless derivatives protocol, announces $8 million in funding from leading investors to bring its groundbreaking ALP (Automated Liquidity Placement) technology and open asset-listing model to market. The protocol has also secured strategic partnerships with liquidity providers to support its mission to revolutionize DeFi derivatives.

Maverick Protocol is proud to announce its $8 million strategic fundraising round, led by Pantera Capital. Other investors include Altonomy, Circle Ventures, CMT Digital, Coral DeFi, Gemini Frontier Fund, GoldenTree Asset Management, Jump Crypto, LedgerPrime, Spartan Group, Taureon, and Tron Foundation. The funding will help Maverick to launch its mainnet product in mid-2022 and scale its protocol by rapidly growing its core machine learning and business team.

“Maverick is poised to capture a significant chunk of the market.”— Joey Krug, Pantera Capital

Maverick’s mission is to expand the reach of decentralized derivatives through a more inclusive approach to crypto asset listing. Currently, it is difficult for users to trade mid-cap tokens on perpetual markets, even on nominally permissionless trading protocols: decentralized derivatives exchanges are limited to 30 trading pairs or fewer, compared to the hundreds of pairs available on centralized exchanges.

Maverick is targeting this greenfield by utilizing a protocol to open listings to any trading pair, while allowing users to use any ERC20 token as collateral. Tapping into this underutilized liquidity can bring new market opportunities to liquidity providers and traders globally.

“DeFi needs someone to answer the demand for derivatives built on the mid-cap and long-tail assets that are underserved by existing exchanges. Pantera believes Maverick is the protocol to accomplish this. Its innovative market structure is poised to capture a significant chunk of the market by offering low slippage to traders and low-maintenance, capital-efficient staking to LPs.”—  Pantera Capital co-CIO Joey Krug

Maverick also promises industry-leading pricing through its proprietary Gaussian Automated Liquidity Placement (ALP) vAMM, an innovative mechanism that automatically positions liquidity more effectively around the market price. The result is greater capital efficiency for liquidity providers and lower slippage for traders.

ABOUT Maverick
Maverick is a permissionless derivatives protocol with an innovative liquidity bootstrapping mechanism — the “Automated Liquidity Placement vAMM” — that positions liquidity more effectively around the market price. This results in benefits for both LPs and traders by improving capital efficiency as well as enabling low slippage. This unique mechanism allows Maverick to be the first protocol that can quickly expand to support many exotic pairs that are not currently available in centralized or decentralized perpetual markets.

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