Feb 16, 2021
Vesper: A Launch Primer
[Ed. note 2021–02–16: Post has been updated to include information on the Sushiswap and Uniswap campaigns, the genuine VSP token address, and more.]
The Vesper beta ends and the VSP token launches on February 17. If you’ve been with us since the beginning, this post has everything in one place. If you’re just now joining us, here’s what you need to get up to speed. We will be updating this post up through launch.
Review of the Beta To-Date
Vesper Co-founder Jeff Garzik gave an overview of the beta to-date in the most recent community call. Here’s an excerpt:
Tokenomics
Last week, the team published a comprehensive overview of Vesper’s tokenomics. You can also hear Co-founder Matthew Roszak deliver additional context in an excerpt from the most recent community call:
Revenue Model
The Vesper team built a revenue model that centers the economic activity around the community.
You can read the overview of the revenue model as well as get further detail in the Gitbook. Again, here’s the relevant segment from the most recent community call:
Strategic Partners
The Vesper team assembled a very strong group of strategic partners and advisors.
This group included A195 Capital, CMT Digital, Kenetic Capital, Digital Strategies, HCM Capital, Capital6 Eagle, VeriBlock, and TRG Capital.
Additionally, renowned individual crypto investors and builders joined the strategic partner round: Robert Leshner (Compound), Ryan Selkis (Messari), Meltem Demirors (CoinShares), Trevor Koverko (Tokens), Ran Neuner (CNBC), and Harry Yeh (PVQM).
Finally, Qiao Wang of DeFi Alliance and Ian Lee of IDEO CoLab Ventures are Vesper advisors.
Matthew Roszak discusses this group and their contribution to the Vesper mission in this clip:
Technology
The crew at DeFi Pulse wrote up an in-depth overview of Vesper and continues to publish content on Twitter throughout the week.
The “Inside Vesper” series highlights the innovations that make Vesper truly unique. Check out the articles on Vesper’s modular and multi-pool approaches to strategy-building, as well as one of the most exciting products on the Vesper roadmap, Vesper Earn “Directed Pools.”
Community Contributions
Our community members (who have taken to calling themselves “Vespernauts”) have made incredible contributions in the last few weeks in terms of content, community management, and more.
Highlights include a Dune Analytics dashboard that surfaces details on the first three Vesper Grow pools, and a how-to video that shows how simple Vesper is to use.
VSP Token Address
Do not fall for scammers! The genuine token address for VSP is:
[Disclaimer: If there is some problem before the February 17 launch day, the team may be forced to redeploy, which would mean creating a different contract address. This is unlikely, but not impossible.]
LP Campaigns
The day before launch, we announced our Day One LP campaigns.
Sushiswap
From the original announcement:
The Vesper team has been collaborating with SushiSwap to navigate the main launch and ongoing liquidity campaign.
To signal our partnership with SushiSwap, the Vesper project is providing a majority of initial LP liquidity, and on-going liquidity mining rewards, to SushiSwap LPs.
Uniswap
After VSP-ETH trading began on Sushiswap, the Vesper team set up another VSP-ETH pair on Uniswap.
Documents
Want more detail? Head over to the Gitbook.
Online
Most of the community interaction takes place on Discord, but you can also find Vesper on Telegram, Twitter, YouTube and (because why not?) LinkedIn. Where available, be sure to read the pinned posts. You can also track us on DeFi Pulse and LoanScan.
