About

BarnBridge is a risk tokenization protocol. Its applications allow users to hedge factors such as yield sensitivity or asset price volatility by tokenizing various levels of risk exposure to a given underlying liquidity pool. These tokenized positions, referred to as either senior or junior tranches, are then as liquid as any other ERC-721 or ERC-20 token, respectively.

History

Although first designed in Q2 of 2019, BarnBridge was officially introduced in September 2020 upon the close of its seed funding round. BarnBridge aims to facilitate the transition of traditional financial institutions to decentralized finance with smart contract solutions for risk management.

BarnBridge does not exist as a legally incorporated entity - it is solely organized around an Ethereum-based cooperative (i.e. “DAO”) that is coordinated via the BOND governance token. BOND holders have the ability to participate in protocol governance, determining outcomes for future smart contract deployments, the further distribution of BOND tokens, and the use for fee revenue earned by associated applications.

BarnBridge launched its first application, SMART Yield, on March 15th. SMART Yield allows users to enter debt pools on existing lending markets like Compound Finance or AAVE and receive either a fixed return or a levered variable rate return. Its next two applications, SMART Exposure and SMART Alpha, provide similar functionality but for portfolio concentration risk and asset price volatility.