2021 at a Glance: Partnerships

Throughout this year, a variety of projects with use cases ranging from DEXs, NFT marketplaces, yield protocols, stablecoins, launchpads and more have put their trust into DIA’s transparent oracles. Let’s have a look at DIA’s partnerships during 2021.

DIA Core Team

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DIA Insights

11 min readDec 27, 2021

DeFi Applications

From lending networks to synthetic asset platforms, DeFi projects are reliant on accurate and reliable price points to operate and build great products. Since 2021, DIA is delivering fully transparent oraclised data feeds to a growing number of DeFi products:

Dafi: Dafi’s mission is to solve the problem of excess token supply of the decentralised economies. Instead of distributing a token directly, the Dafi Protocol enables networks to create synthetic tokens (dTokens) that increase in quantity as demand rises. DIA has integrated its trusted oracles into Dafi’s synthetics protocol. Learn more.
Standard Protocol: is the first Collateralised Rebasable Stablecoin protocol for synthetic assets that will operate within the Polkadot ecosystem. DIA’s accurate and transparent price data points will be integrated into Standard’s Polkadot based protocol for synthetic assets. Learn more.
Raze Network: is a Substrate-based cross-chain privacy protocol for the Polkadot ecosystem. It is built as a native privacy layer that can provide end-to-end anonymity for the entire DeFi stack. DIA is feeding the Raze Network with transparent data feeds. Learn more.
Shadows: is the first project that will bring synthetic assets to Polkadot’s interoperable Substrate framework. Synthetics enable any real-world asset to be represented and traded on-chain. This includes synthetic stablecoins, cryptocurrency, commodities, and stocks. DIA’s oracles are integrated into Shadows cross-chain synthetics protocol. Learn more.
Fetch.ai: is a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab, focused on building a decentralized machine learning platform based on a distributed ledger, that enables secure sharing, connection, and transactions based on any data globally. DIA’s trusted oracles will be integrated into Mettalex, running on the Fetch.ai Mainnet version 2. Learn more.
Coinversation: is a synthetic asset issuance protocol and decentralised contract trading exchange based on the Polkadot contract chain. It uses the Coinversation (CTO) and Polkadot (DOT) tokens as collateral, to synthesize any cryptocurrencies or stocks, bonds, gold and any other off-chain assets. DIA’s price feeds play a major role in Coinversation’s synthetic asset and DEX platform delivering reliable real-time price points for all assets used within the Coinversation Protocol. Learn more.
Arcana: is a storage layer for Ethereum, with a privacy stack for user login/authentication, access control, key management, and encrypted storage. With Arcana, blockchain developers can build privacy-preserving dApps with easy-to-use interfaces. DIA’s accurate and transparent oracle suite will be utilised by Arcana Network to strengthen its treasury management processes. Learn more.
Deficliq: claims to be the first company to provide both collateralized and uncollateralized loans in both P2P and traditional ways. The Deficliq platform offers to users many features such as DAO governance, staking, yield farming, interoperability and more, all in one Polkadot Substrate Project. Deficliq is utilising DIA’s trusted oracles to integrate real-time market price data to update the collateral ratios of the lending platform. Learn more.
Teneo Finance: is a three-layered incentivized protocol for holders powered by the TENEO token and market optimization. Teneo combines redistributed transaction fees with wrapped tokens. By aggregating DIA oracles, Teneo is making use of DIA’s extensive cross-chain interoperability capabilities and implementing a multi-chain solution for its wrapped tokens. Learn more.
Dfyn: is a multi-chain Automated Market Making (AMM) DEX, built to be an inter-connected AMM with nodes spread on different blockchains. DIA will feed Dfyn’s AMM platform with a volume-weighted average price index of market prices. Learn more.
Dahlia: is a leveraged yield farming protocol that offers yield farmers access to leverage when providing liquidity to a decentralized exchange on Celo. The Dahlia protocol supports DeFi on Celo. Learn more.
PiSwap DeFi: is a new generation full-stack DeFi aggregation platform that offers a wide range of services/applications, involving yield farming, governance (DAO), Dapps developing and NFT/Gaming. PiSwap is a new generation DeFi platform, fully integrated with tools to help users to access DeFi easily, quickly and securely. DIA oracles will power the aggregation of DeFi products via PiSwap’s dashboard. Learn more.
Chaingain: is a decentralized financial platform, offering a variety of products tailored to many individuals, ranging from lending and borrowing protocol to capital renting. DIA’s transparent feeds are enabling the calculation of the collateral borrowers should deposit to cover for the borrowed amount. Learn more.
Knit Finance: is a decentralized protocol for creating cross-chain wrappers for the top-200 crypto assets. It delivers bridges to ensure comfortable cross-chain fluidity of assets and allows institutions, developers, farmers, and traders to tap into trusted custody to mint Knit’s “K-Assets”. DIA will provide accurate and transparent price feeds for Knit Finance’s cross-chain wrapper platform. Learn more.
Ola Finance: is a lending platform that lets anyone create a Compound-like instance of almost any token, referred to as Lending Networks. With Ola, a Lending Network can be created with a few clicks of a button by tuning a few parameters. DIA will provide accurate price points to Ola’s lending platform to support a wide variety of assets and increase the protocol’s resilience to price manipulation. Learn more.
Seascape: aims to create an environment that will allow users, developers and stakeholders to play, earn and share experiences in an incentivised way. The network is set to provide a method for self-education on blockchain and related finance in a fun and engaging way. DIA is integrating Seascape’s Crowns token price data into the DIA oracle across multiple chains. Learn more.
Exeedme: is a blockchain-powered tournament platform that acts as a competitive layer on top of centralised and decentralised games and allows gamers at all skill levels, developers and gaming communities to monetize their skills and efforts with the power of DeFi and NFT’s. Exeedme will integrate DIA’s open-source price oracles to power the monetisation of gamer’s skills through a betting mechanism. Learn more.
Dotmoovs: is a remote peer-to-peer sports competition platform that aims to revolutionise the way users look at sports performance. The platform hosts peer-to-peer sport challenges to monetise training time through cryptocurrencies and NFTs with open market dynamics. DIA is feeding the Dotmoovs platform with oraclised data such as users’ history and activity, membership periods, number of tickets bought and more. Learn more.
Ovre: created by Zoocoin, is a decentralised marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) built on top of the Fantom network. Ovre’s platform enables artists to mint NFTs and collectors to list and purchase these artworks. DIA is officially feeding Ovre’s NFT marketplace with a unique price feed oracle for the FTM/USD pair. Learn more.

Utility/Infrastructure

From cloud-based node infrastructure to decentralised storage, blockchain builders are setting up the backbone for the next-generation applications. DIA is interacting with these builders to form a robust ecosystem with accurate and reliable on-chain data points.

Coingecko: is one of the earliest and largest cryptocurrency data aggregators in the market, providing fundamental analysis of the crypto market. In addition to tracking price, volume and market capitalisation, CoinGecko also tracks community growth, open-source code development, major events and on-chain metrics. CoinGecko asset data is now available via DIA’s decentralised Oracle platform. Learn more.
CoinMarketCap: is the world’s most-referenced price-tracking website for crypto assets in the rapidly growing cryptocurrency space. Its mission is to make crypto discoverable and efficient globally by empowering retail users with unbiased, high quality and accurate information for drawing their own informed conclusions. CoinMarketCap asset data is now available via DIA’s decentralised Oracle platform. Learn more.
Coinbase Custody: is an independent, NYDFS-regulated entity built on Coinbase’s crypto-first DNA, offering the most sophis ticated and reliable custody solution in the world. Launched in 2018, Coinbase Custody offers clients access to the secure, institutional-grade offline storage solution that has been used by Coinbase’s exchange business since 2012. Coinbase Custody is supporting DIA tokens, enabling compliant and secure storage of DIA tokens. Learn more.
Morningstar Indexes: together with global benchmark provider Morningstar Indexes (part of Morningstar, Inc.), the release of ‘DIAx’ — regulatory compliant reference prices and indexes that will enable investors to benchmark and access digital assets via traditional markets. Learn more.
Mettalex: is the Fetch.ai-powered decentralized derivatives exchange that is bringing the $20T traditional commodities market to decentralized finance. Mettalex’s mission is to provide cost and capital-efficient access to risk management tools to a large audience of market participants while avoiding the high spreads and limited liquidity of financial market intermediaries. Mettalex will integrate DIA’s trusted oracles into its decentralized exchange. Learn more.
0Chain: is a high-performance decentralized storage network designed to eliminate business threats such as censorship, privacy liability and data breach. 0Chain helps entities achieve GDPR compliance, localization, tokenization and monetizes private data sharing. 0Chain will integrate DIA’s crowdsourced oracles into its decentralized storage network. Learn more.
Dash Next: is a digital currency that enables anyone, anywhere in the world to make quick, easy and cheap payments at any time without going through a central authority. During the last quarter of 2020, Dash had an average of +22,300 transactions per day and a payment volume of $0.92billion. DIA oracles are integrated into the Dash platform as well as making Dash data feeds available to Ethereum and other L1 and L2s. Learn more.
Tixl: is building an ecosystem for Decentralized Finance. Tixl’s vision is to have all tokens on a single, high-performance network. At the core of Tixl’s ecosystem is the interoperable layer 1 Autobahn Network, which enables instant and minimal fee transactions for any transfer of data, not just digital assets or tokens. Tixl is benefiting in multiple ways from DIA’s trusted oracles to enable both layer 1 and layer 2 capabilities. Learn more.
Horizen: is a secure blockchain ecosystem supported by a decentralized node infrastructure. With its unique sidechain technology Zendoo, Horizen provides all necessary components for easy and speedy deployment of fully customizable blockchains focused on scalable data privacy. DIA’s data feeds will be integrated into Horizen’s ecosystem through a dedicated sidechain. Learn more.
Paid Network: seeks to redefine the current business contract, litigation, and settlement process by providing a simple, attorney-free, and cost-friendly DApp for users and businesses to ensure they #GetPAID. Paid has integrated DIA’s trusted, transparent price oracles into Paid Network’s ad-free content monetisation platform. Learn more.
Polkalokr: is the first all-in-one, multi-chain token locking and escrow platform with built-in privacy functionality. Polkalokr helps build trust within the DeFi space by removing the human element and focusing on governance through code. DIA’s transparent oracles will be integrated into Polkalokr’s locking platform to enable event-based token distributions. Learn more.
AllianceBlock: is a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 that bridges traditional and decentralized finance and automates the process of converting any digital or crypto asset into a bankable product. AllianceBlock will integrate DIA data on their on-chain and off-chain investment data API product. Learn more.
Sperax: provides a hybrid stablecoin “USDs”. A combination of crypto-collateralized stablecoins and dual token algorithmic stablecoins, USDs is a scalable, trustless and decentralized stablecoin that operates fully on-chain. DIA is feeding the Sperax dApp with open-source oracles as well as a new reference rate index. Learn more.
UPFI Network: with $1.5M TVL locked in the protocol, is an algorithmic stablecoin natively operating on the Solana blockchain. UPFI is partially backed by collateral and partially stabilized algorithmically. DIA is delivering accurate and transparent oracles to facilitate the $UPFI stablecoin to be pegged to the value of the US dollar and enable next-generation payments on the Solana network. Learn more.
Argo: is a server-less app platform that enables the automated deployment of web projects on blockchain-based storage networks. Argo offers a decentralized, uncensored, and permanent platform for businesses and ideas on the internet which is permanently hosted with a one-time deployment fee. As a first step of the partnership, ArGo’s token price will be integrated into DIA’s broad set of data feeds. Secondly, ArGo will utilise DIA oracles in its hosting and storage platform. Learn more.

Launchpads

Crypto launchpads are open platforms that provide early access to new projects selling their native tokens. DIA is supporting the development of this ecosystem by feeding with open-source price feeds the projects of the following launchpads:

Ferrum Network: is a deflationary cross-chain Blockchain as a Service DeFi company that specializes in adding token utility and advisory services to projects across the crypto space. The current and upcoming projects developing under Ferrum Network’s incubation arm will be able to integrate DIA’s open-source, transparent and verified data feeds to build new early-stage dApps. Learn more.
DuckDAO: is a decentralized incubator that helps promising projects achieve their full potential by leveraging the investment power and buzz making potential of their community. DuckDAO aims to democratize access to investment opportunities that were previously available only to well-heeled investors and venture funds. DIA is providing DuckDAO incubated projects access to funding and DIA’s trusted oracles. Learn more.
Open DeFi: is a DeFi Ecosystem DAO, formed to generate long-term value by building and launching early-stage financial protocols, applications, tools, and infrastructure. The Open DeFi DAO supports and launches projects across all layer one ecosystems and explores DeFi markets surrounding new digital asset classes, including NFTs, data tokens and more. DIA Labs and Open DeFi will collaborate on a variety of axes ranging from regulatory interaction to engagement with institutional partners. Learn more.
Genesis Shards: is a Polkadot-native, decentralized ecosystem that redefines NFTs as DeFi options. Genesis Shards leverages a permissionless environment of interchain liquidity for pre-IDO tokens. By wrapping time-locked fungible tokens into NFTs, a new marketplace for previously illiquid tokens is created. DIA is providing data oracles for the Polkadot-native, NFT-powered marketplace for pre-IDO tokens. Learn more.
Poolz Finance: is a fully decentralized, swapping protocol that enables startups and project owners to auction their tokens for bootstrapping liquidity. As the blockchain-cryptocurrency community moves closer to absolute decentralization, Poolz empowers innovators in their pre-listing phase, bringing them closer to early-stage investors. DIA Labs will identify the most optimal projects and leverage the Poolz platform. Learn more.
Gains Associates is a crypto platform focused on discovering and investing in new innovative projects, as well as sharing insights about market development and investments opportunities with its +10.000 active members community. DIA Labs is working with one of the best-connected incubation projects in the space to support new relevant projects and founders. Learn more.

About DIA

DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is a cross-chain, open-source data and oracle platform for the DeFi ecosystem. DIA leverages crypto-economic incentives to drive supply, share and use transparent, crowd-verified price data and oracles on financial and digital assets. DIA’s data sources and methodologies are transparent and publicly accessible for everyone.