PolyCUB Bonding Protocol Explained | UI, Bonding Mechanics and The Future of PolyCUB

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Once we complete some final testing, we're going to deploy the PolyCUB Bonding Protocol. The bonding protocol allows users to trade LP assets with PolyCUB's Protocol Owned Liquidity.

There are some large mechanisms at play here and many people have asked how bonding will work on PolyCUB in our recent AMAs.

The images in this post are screenshots of the UI for PolyCUB's New Bonding Protocol.

Bonding: The Future of PolyCUB

Bonding is without a doubt a key component of the sustainable future we have envisioned for POLYCUB.

The PolyCUB ecosystem is set to grow over time. That is, xPOLYCUB is designed as a number forever go up token - where the value of xPOLYCUB in POLYCUB terms is designed to always increase. Stake 1 POLYCUB in the xPOLYCUB vault and you know that tomorrow you can pull out more POLYCUB and 10 years from now, even more.

The POLYCUB token itself in USD terms is designed to accrue value as well. It accrues value primarily from Protocol Owned Liquidity.

We've designed Protocol Owned Liquidity to grow from 3 mechanisms:

  1. Management Fees on Kingdoms
  2. Bonding
  3. Collateralized Loans on xPOLYCUB Stake

Through these 3 mechanisms the amount of Protocol Owned Liquidity will also be a number forever go up vault. The amount of assets sitting in PoL will continually rise over time from these mechanics which bring about:

  1. A Higher Risk-Free Value on POLYCUB
  2. Exponentially Compounding Value in the PoL
  3. Value Accrual Forever

In a series of posts, we'll dive deeper into these mechanics. Today's post is focused on PolyCUB's Bonding Protocol, how the UI works and how it works behind the scenese. Let's dive in!

Bonding UI

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When you land on https://polycub.com/bonding (not live yet), you will see the currently available bonds and their respective metrics.

Let's run through the data points you see here:

  1. Total Liquidity Bonded - this is the total amount of liquidity that has been deposited in bonds (user deposits into the bonding contract)
  2. Bonds - the list of available bonds. You can see 4 bonds currently available here
  3. Payout Asset - the payout asset for PolyCUB Bonds is, unsurprisingly, POLYCUB tokens
  4. ROI - this is the current Return on Investment of each bond. Bonds can be positive or negative ROI (as seen above)
  5. TBV - this is the Total Bonded Value for each bond (simply, the USD value of LP Deposits into that bond)
  6. Bond Button - the bond button opens up a pop-up dialogue where users can interact with the bonding contract

Interacting With a Bond

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Much of this data is the same from the homepage of the Bonding Protocol UI. This data shows a specific bond (in this window, you see the WBTC-WETH SLP Bond).

Note: in testing, a few users asked what SLP stands for. SLP simply stands for "sushi liquidity pool" token. It's the LP Token you get to represent you position in any liquidity pool on Sushiswap. Note how the first 3 bonds are labeled "SLP" and the 4th is labeled "LP" since the 4th is on Curve and not Sushiswap.

Some other data points you may notice are the following:

  • Vesting Term - this is the time it takes for the bond to 100% vest. Note that the bond vests continuously over time and you can partially claim the bond whenever you want, so after 24 hours, you'll be able to claim ~14.28% of the total POLYCUB you're owed from the bond
  • Max Available - this is the maximum POLYCUB that can be received via this particular bond at this particular moment. Note that this amount is continuously increasing and then decreasing when any user bonds (think of it like a dynamic pool of POLYCUB that is available to be purchased via the bond. This pool increases/decreases in a variable manner)

Bonding Example

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  • User A deposits $300 worth of WETH-BTC SLP tokens into Bond #3
  • $300 is added to PolyCUB's Protocol Owned Liquidity where it is utilized to autonomously stake, earn rewards and use those rewards to buyback POLYCUB and distribute back into the POLYCUB Rewards Pool
  • User A locks in whatever ROI is currently available (+6.3%)
  • User A is now owed $300 + 6.3% of their deposit, paid out in POLYCUB
  • Over 7 days, User A is distributed POLYCUB tokens at whatever market prices they locked in ($318.9 worth of POLYCUB @ the market price of POLYCUB when they initiated their bond: $0.678 in the above case)
  • User A can continuously claim their bond over the 7 days or wait the full 7 days and claim 100% in one click

Questions About Bonding?

Please drop a comment below, we'll be responding to your questions and may collect a few to discuss on the next Live LeoFinance Weekly AMA!

What's Next?

We're currently doing final testing on the bonding protocol and are hoping to have it released by the end of this week. Likely around the time of the next rewards "halvening" for POLYCUB, as that would be yet another bullish metric to coincide with for POLYCUB.

We built this protocol in parallel on both CUB and POLYCUB. We're releasing it on POLYCUB first - as it is more time sensitive with us being just weeks into the launch - once we deploy it on POLYCUB and have bonds rolling smoothly, we'll deploy it on CUB and begin building CUB-based Protocol Owned Liquidity as well.

The future of sustainable DeFi has arrived (🦁, 🦁)

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Once we complete some final testing, we're going to deploy the PolyCUB Bonding Protocol. The bonding protocol allows users to trade LP assets with PolyCUB's Protocol Owned Liquidity.

This is a very good one coming as an advantage to the project, can't wait to see how this bonding fixture will go and hope to see the level of improvement that this will add to the project

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I believe is definitely a way forward for users to really benefit the impact it has which is useful to achieve more progress.

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This is just another massive achievement coming to the project and honestly this will make it more easier to exchange and even trade too,can't wait to see how the bonding fixture will indeed improve the project

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Polycub bonding will be the deal maker. No doubt this is a important component that is going to make polycub a substainable future. I have added another couple polycub to stake. Every bit counts !

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The PolyCUB ecosystem is set to grow over time. That is, xPOLYCUB is designed as a number forever go up token - where the value of xPOLYCUB in POLYCUB terms is designed to always increase.

It is amazing bring more features to PolyCUB, and for PolyCUB to be a forever go up token it will bring in or entice more investors into the platform.

I look forward to when bonding is live.

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This is awesome guys. Never thought we would get to see bonding so early. Really excited to try this one out.

One question - Do you think it will be possible for you guys to launch single asset (like wETH or wbTC) Bonds in addition to LP Bonds?

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I don't think it would then be called a bond? 🌚

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Because you are bonding two tokens to form an LP? Well honestly, that's not the reason it is called a bond. 😋

The "Bond" we are talking about here is similar to the "bonds" you purchase or invest in traditional finance.

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Correct, it would still be called a bond since it's simply issued by the bonding protocol and allows a user deposit in exchange for a protocol asset.

I believe we will see something along these lines some day. For now, LP Assets are preferred as the Protocol Liquidity will be deploying these assets to generate yield.

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Definitely the bonding is just going to be another steps to make the project the very Best too and creating a level of competition with other projects in year to come

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It's great to hear we're getting close to having it play out.

My question is; as though it is indicated 7 days, I suppose that means that after this vesting period, the ROI can change, as well as the pool rewards in polycub?

If that is the case, how is the number as per rewards in polycub of each bond calculated? Is it personally decided by the team? Or is it following some set up rules?

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The amount of POLYCUB will stay the same however the value of those POLYCUBs can change.

When you lock in the ROI at the beginning of the bond, you lock in the ROI at the current value of WBTC-WETH and POLYCUB (for example).

So in this example, you get ~6% more POLYCUB at market value than you would have if you bought it directly on the market.

If WETH-WBTC drops in value against POLYCUB, then you made an even better ROI than 6%.

If POLYCUB drops in value against WETH-WBTC, then your ROI is potentially lower than 6%.

Though the bond vests continually over 7 days as well.

Bonds have a lot of variables. Kind of like converting HBD to HIVE over 3.5 days. It can be a risk depending on market volatility but it can also carry super high payoffs.

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PolyCUB is truly the future of sustainable DeFi, and I can not wait for the Bonding Protocol to be deployed and also the Collateralized Loans on xPOLYCUB Stake, which mean I don't have to sell my polycub but can be able to take a loan from the Protocol Liquidity in exchange.

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This is just another reason why holding and staking PolyCub is the best thing to do right now

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I am adding to my xPOLYCUB holding. To me, it is worth going all in.

Could end up being life changing money if one builds enough stake.

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This another great achievement in the project by setting out liquidity and bonding, which I believed will be useful and helpful in the future and when implemented is going to make trading polyCUB asset easily in the future... kudos to the team

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The entire ecosystem can feed into itself. This creates a circular economy where there is positive feedback onto other aspects of the ecosystem.

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This is another achievement in the project by bonding polycub, which I believe is a long term investment

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This would change things greatly around polycub. Can't wait to for bonding to go live

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Thanks for running through the data points, it's Important to try out different key component, that would be necessary for the sustainability of PolyCub, let's see how bonding does this. Still holding and believing.

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The Bonding will lead to a great deal of value to the protocol. This is think that will help it to step forward.

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Beautiful mechanism behind bonding and cool UI page. Nice we'll be seeing this sooner than anticipated. Looking to try it out

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Bonding came earlier than expected, gaining sustainability sooner than I expected, barely up to 4 weeks and with these features, long term is certainly the goal.

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We are not even to the 3rd reduction in emissions. Now we are going to see a 33% drop in POLYCUB in a couple days.

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Thanks so much LeoFinance for this update and clear some points we may need to know like SLP and others. I liked the UI section of it. Wish to see more bigger and better something upcoming from you! I appreciate your efforts 💗💕❤️

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So awesome. The leofinance team is the best. Always working and delivering. Thanks for explanations on bonding. Hoping to see it live this week

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More ways to earn, yippy! Nice that cub holders are getting to interact with these other protocols, all from the Leo front end. It is a great learning experience.

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Great work, can't wait for bonding to be live to start bond looping, creating more value for the POL. I just hope Polycub holds its value over the 7 days so I can keep this going for a while.
I was expecting a five days bonding period but seven isn't that big of an extension.

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I don't think the price drop is too bad. APY for xPOLYCUB will likely be better than bond looping discouraging heavy dumping of POLYCUB, and you still get more in POLYCUB tokens by compounding bond payouts. Not financial advice though.

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I think xPOLYCUB APR will no longer high after week 5 because xPOLYCUB APR strongly related to POLYCUB emission rate.
Then after W5, Bonding may be a better option than xPOLYCUB

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If true I wonder how the price will hold in short term. The yield from the liquidity can't immediately buy back the amount of tokens it's paid with but if those tokens come from buybacks then the system seems stable. I guess the dumps from bonding will have lessening short term effect on the price when the inflation goes towards zero and the yields should return the value in long term.

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Wasn't really expecting bond to be this quick.well this actually tells how focus and determine leofinance is to get things quicky done.its no doubt that the bonding will make a very huge impact cos polycub is already a success

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Will there be the 50% claim penalty on the 6.3% in this example? Or is all the POLYCUB paid out immediately liquid.

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Good question - nope, there is no 50% claim penalty on this.

That penalty applies to harvests only. Harvests don't happen on the xPOLYCUB vault and similarly don't happen on the Bonding vault.

Harvests do happen on Farms and Kingdoms. That's all

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New features are rushing in the PolyCUB platform and bonding is yet another way to invest in this Polygon solution. I must say that I am not too friendly with this concept and if possible please let us know the risk associated with it. Can one lose the bonded assets, suffer any Impermanent Loss or something alike?

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Can one lose the bonded assets,suffer any Impermanent Loss

I think the answer is NO. At the time you bond your SLP, this SLP be added to PolyCUB's Protocol Owned Liquidity where it is utilized to autonomously stake, earn rewards and use those rewards.
At the same time, an amount of POLYCUB is locked and vest in 7 days for you.
It's similar like you use SLP to buy POLYCUB. So you don't own any SLP anymore then there is no Impermanent Loss as well.

The risk here is the POLYCUB price goes down in 7 days. So the received POLYCUB value is lower than SLP initial value

With the above example, SLP value is $300, you bond it and will get $300 (1+ ROI 6.3%) = $318.9 in POLYCUB ~ 470 POLYCUB because POLYCUB price at the bonding time is $0.678
You can withdraw 14.7% of 470 ~ 69 POLYCUB everyday or 470 POLYCUB after 7 days.
After 7 days, if the POLYCUB price goes down to $0.5, then you only receive 470 * $0.4 = $235 which is lower than you initial investment $300

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So in an instance where a user deposits and the price of PolyCub decreases, they will get paid out the $ value of their initial investment plus the ROI? If this is the case, then theoretically can it be seen in a similar light to buying options where you are locking in a specific value? Just trying to grasp this as it feels like a new concept for me.

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In this scenario they'd get more PolyCub back than they deposited?

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Questions About Bonding?

One point I didn't quite catch...

Where is the $318 in POLYCUB (470 POLYCUB) paid from? Is it from the 5,4,3,2,1 token emissions per block? Or from current PoL holdings of POLYCUB? Or perhaps from PoL liquidity POLYCUB earnings over the week?

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I would love to see this feature, I am a fan of bonding assets.

Would you also provide single currency asset for bonding, such as USDC only?

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Will you eventually have bonding on all the farms? For example, will bonding be available on the pLEO/Matic farm (and eventually the bLEO/BNB farm)?

Also, will there ever be an option to automatically re-up the bond? Or will you have to do it manually each time?

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Bonding is definitely going to change a lot but I have questions. At what situation can somebody have a negative ROL and is it profitable

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LeoFinance will never seize to amaze us with these developments and improvements. Indeed, LeoFinance is the true hub for everything crypto and finance, now leading in DeFI development. Truly, better days for $HIVE, $LEO, $CUB and $PolyCUB just started.

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This is the beauty of traders/investors building a project for the long term. You know how the markets and traders behave. You know about the best projects in cryptosphere. What is left is to combine the best parts of the best projects and build an even greater DAPP.

The best part is that with projects launched by @leofinance I get to join right at the beginning (or few hours later as I had some issues with POLYCUB Airdrop claim).

Markets don't know what they are doing when they price POLYCUB at 60 cents. Best of Luck to all those who manage to find enough crypto to buy POLYCUB at these prices!
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Polycub bonding is no doubt going to be of great importance to the financial protocol of LP. I will be waiting for the testing to be completed.

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This is a great improvement and I can't wait to see it kick off. I wanted to ask if the vesting in the bonding is similar to providing liquidity?

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