Things Fuse can do

Jai Bhavnani
Rari Capital
Published in
3 min readJul 1, 2021

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I wrote up a blog post about the things that Fuse can do a while back. I completely forgot to post it, so here’s just a total random list of the things that Fuse is capable of. These aren’t just my ideas, lots of really smart people helped, special shoutout to all of them (Zeus, SpiderCrypto, Matteo Lunghi, Celia Wan, Chris Matthews, CometShock just to name a few!)

None of this is financial advice. We may or may not be working on some of these use cases. If you want to help us build it in any capacity, DM me on twitter.

  1. Unlock any value in the world (with contractual bounds, wrap physical asset and tokenize it)
  2. Debt financing for early/middle/late stage projects (ie we borrow against $RGT instead of venture) in a way that was never possible before
  3. Borrow against social tokens instead of selling a piece of your soul
  4. Borrow against vested tokens (turning all locked value into real value) (oracle multipliers)
  5. Borrow against staked / locked assets (ie staked Aave)
  6. Borrow against vault positions (yVaults, RSPT, yaxis, etc)
  7. Borrow against fixed rate opportunities (a la 88mph)
  8. Simple margin long/short positions (suddenly leverage any asset)
  9. Leverage on tranche products (junior, senior tranches provided by Saffron or Barnbridge)
  10. Further leverage your Alpha Homora tokens
  11. Leverage your Fuse tokens
  12. Leverage FTX positions even further
  13. Leverage cToken, aToken, borrow against these
  14. Leveraged insurance positions
  15. Leverage yield farm on any protocol (balancer, uniswap, sushiswap, badger, curve, etc)
  16. Borrow against real estate tokens / real estate cash flows a la RealT
  17. Miner financing for expansion
  18. Arbitrarily interact with protocols without selling base asset (generalized vault model → tanks)
  19. Protocol to protocol financing (iron bank esque, tokenized cash flows)
  20. Borrow against NFTs (tweets, art, redeemable items, in-game assets gaming, etc)
  21. Synthetic assets (Synthetix, Mirror, etc)
  22. Cross protocol borrow (collateral on one, borrow on the other, via ren bridge)
  23. Borrow against L2 tokens (or other wrapped positions)?
  24. Long or short gas (via CHI or custom oracle?)
  25. Ownership of smart contract as collateral
  26. Borrow against staked ETH (Ankr, Lido)
  27. Borrow against options (ie Hegic 721’s, etc)
  28. Long betting tokens (like Polymarket TRUMPNO shares)
  29. Borrow against LP Tokens
  30. Borrow against algo stablecoins (lower price algo stable coin = cheaper loan repayment)
  31. Create CDO pools with localized risk (bundles of like-kind debts, non-systemic)
  32. Delta neutral strategies on anything
  33. Borrow NFTs for temporary uses such as gaming NFT ecosystems
  34. Protocol DAO Treasury growth via lending APY
  35. Protocol DAO Treasury conservative yield farming in a manual manner
  36. Institutionally compliant lending/borrowing pools via whitelist
  37. Borrow against Tank LP tokens
  38. Pools that reflect custom indices for tokens and sectors (create the platform for passive etf investing and allow leverage).
  39. Community pools between multiple parties. Similar to a CDO but perhaps more diversified.
  40. Creating a binary option position (by borrowing against / releveraging “put” / “call” option tokens)
  41. Borrowing on credit/credit delegation not limited to protocols (between traditional institutions/individuals)
  42. Leverage on Invoices
  43. Borrow against Whiteheart’s WHAssets (WHETH and WHBTC in v1). These are ETH and WBTC wrapped with an ATM put option, so protected against downside price action

Tweet at me if you have any other ideas. There are a ton that we are missing, I’m sure of it. Let’s get started on the future of finance.

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