You know about our cross-chain vaults with built-in insurance. Our DAO with all the bells and whistles is no secret to you. The Charity Mining program which bakes our mission into governance by leveraging cross-chain relayers exclusive to Sandclock has already been unveiled.
But what will this platform enable? Yield aggregation? Yes. Traditional donations, zero-loss donations, and perpetual endowments? Sure, if you so desire. What’s left? Shall we go more in-depth?
The product-market fit of the platform is iterating rapidly, and we are excited to share it with you!
Yield Optimizer
As you surely know if you have read our previous articles, Sandclock’s vaults can be used as a normal yield optimizer, with built-in insurance. Through complex but carefully curated strategies, Sandclock will gladly chase the yield for you, no matter the blockchain.
It is perhaps worth noting that unlike most yield aggregators, our strategies will be as non-adversarial as possible, though it may be inevitable in some cases. An interesting experiment that we may or may not run for a specific token, is to have two vaults that utilize the same underlying token, but with slightly different strategies — an adversarial farm-and-dump strategy, and another with a non-adversarial one.
Additionally, due to gas constrictions, for non-Ethereum vaults we will have duplicate vaults: compounding, and non-compounding. They will unlock different use cases as seen below.
For Individuals
Yield for Good: Donations to a Charity or Alma Mater
This is your opportunity to make a positive impact on causes that are close to your heart at no actual cost to you. Whatever it is, the options are limitless, so think outside the box. Whether it’s rescuing homeless animals, making clean water accessible to everyone, helping small businesses in a time of need, donating to your alma mater, or something completely different, Sandclock is here to help.
Sandclock connects yield farmers with the Not for Profits or Educational Institutions of their choice so they can stream a portion of their incredible yields generated by our vaults. Not only that, but it also enables perpetual endowments, and traditional donations.
As we grow the web 3.0 ecosystem, it is important for us to support Not for Profits so they can continue to deliver remarkable experiences for local communities, the environment, social causes, and so on.
For this use case one can use either vault type: stream your yield continuously using Superfluid the moment you get it, or allow it to compound and donate at maturation.
Yield for Startups
Tired of being used as exit liquidity by VCs who get in at $1–5mm FDV?
Sandclock introduces a new model for value creation by enabling our platform users to stream a portion of their yield to exciting new crypto projects in exchange for native Governance tokens.
Similar to existing startup launchers, startups interested in accessing liquidity can list their projects on our platform, define a rate of governance token release in exchange for user yields.
By the time we launch, Sandclock will be a fully compliant crowdfunding platform with a Funding Portal SEC license. KYC’ed Sandclock participants that hold $QUARTZ will be whitelisted and pre-approved to access tokens in our private market ahead of project listings on major exchanges.
For this use case one can use either vault type: stream your yield continuously using Superfluid the moment you get it, or allow it to compound and lend it at maturation. The downside of compounding is that in order to use it, your deposit’s maturity cannot occur after the deadline for the fundraising.
Yield Redirection to Any Wallet
“It is none of your business where my yield goes to!”
We respect that. Feel free to redirect the yield to whatever wallet your heart desires.
Use either vault you desire. With non-compounding you can stream your yield in real time. If you use compounding, though the returns will be higher, the recipient will have to wait until maturation to receive them.
For Corporations
Yield for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Sandclock helps large businesses and crypto ventures use our vaults to manage their corporate social responsibilities and commitments.
Our services, audited protocols, on-chain insurance, on-chain custody, and multi-chain vaults will ensure that your CSR obligations are managed as effectively as possible.
Yield for Institutions
We want to be the institutional portal to DeFi.
What has been heretofore restricted due to regulatory risk and insufficient transaction reporting will be corrected with Sandclock and its sister company.
As per our internal roadmap, our sister company is making strides in the regulatory landscape. So as Sandclock moves swiftly to capture the retail market and work on its institutional grade reporting tools, in parallel, the institutional version will do its own crawl, aiming to onboard institutions to DeFi sometime in the near future.
Stay tuned!
