DY is a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, our mission is to democratise the world through simple-to-use financial services. We believe that people's lives improve when financial services are community-led and easy to understand, so we’re building a permissionless derivatives exchange on the Stacks blockchain.

Whitepaper

About Us

dy.finance is a trustless, on-chain marketplace enforcing and clearig peer-to-peer perpetuals, options and swaps. With Bitcoin poised to act as the web3 settlement layer, dy.finance will be a critical component of Web 3.0 infrastructure through a novel on-chain, order book serving institutional and retail investors seeking to hedge or gain leveraged exposure to digital assets and tokenized real-world assets.

To better understand our technology please see our recent medium post or our whitepaper.

DYV Token

Sale financials & token generation event

Basics
Ticker: DYV
Sale denomination currency: USD
Jurisdiction: British Virgin Islands
Eligibility: Subject to KYC and AML
Sale stages: 3
Sale start date: December 2021
Sale end date: December 2022
Accepted currencies: USDC, STX, BTC
Token Generation Event Summary
Soft cap: 3.4 MM USD
Hard cap: 10.1 MM USD
Total tokens: 21.0 MM DYV
Remaining tokens post-sale: Burnt
Important notice: Under SEC rules, this token may constitute a security contract and will not be offered to US unaccredited investors.
Vesting schedule, per token allocation
Allocation Immediate unlock Cliff period (months) Unlocked per month after
Seed round 30.00% 12 5.83%
Private round 30.00% 12 5.33%
Public round 100.00%
Community 25.00% 6 12.5%
Team 25.00% 12 6.25%
Advisors 25.00% 6 12.5%
Development 0.00% 8.33%
Reward pool 0.00% Special rules Non-linear release
Stage 1 Seed round
Token price: 1.000 USD
Bonus tokens: 0.0%
Stage number of tokens available: 3.4 MM DYV
Stage cap: 3.4 MM USD
Minimum investment: 50,000 DAI equivalent
Maximum investment: 500,000
Stage start: December 2021
Stage end: March 2021
Stage 2 Private round
Token price: 1.400 USD
Bonus tokens: 0.0%
Stage number of tokens available: 2.1 MM DYV
Stage cap: 3 MM USD
Minimum investment: TBD
Maximum investment: TBD
Stage start: TBD
Stage end: TBD
Stage 3 Public round
Token price: 1.800 USD
Bonus tokens: 0.0%
Stage number of tokens available: 2.1 MM DYV
Stage cap: 3.8 MM USD
Minimum investment: 100 USD
Maximum investment: 2,000 USD
Stage start: TBD
Stage end: TBD
*Sale tokens calculated under the assumptions of
Seed round: 3.4 MM DYV sold @1.000 USD, with bonuses: 0.0% = 3.4 MM USD raised
Private round: 2.1 MM DYV sold @1.400 USD, with bonuses: 0.0% = 3 MM USD raised
Public round: 2.1 MM DYV sold @1.800 USD, with bonuses: 0.0% = 3.8 MM USD raised
dyv-token-1 Allocation of funds raised during the token sale (in MM USD). Assumes reached hard cap. dyv-token-2 Proposed breakdown of the funds' utilisation between the soft cap and the hard cap. dyv-token-3 Proposed total tokens allocation. Assumes reached a hard cap. dyv-token-4 Discount on token price based on entry stage. Figures represent discount versus the maximum token sale price, accounting for all possible bonuses.

The Team

August Felix, CEO

August Felix, CEO

An experienced entrepreneur. Excels in the product design, effective allocation of resources, marketing, and communication, with a proven ability to ship products both quickly, and at a high standard, with a customer focus.

Ilya Bukalov, CTO

Ilya Bukalov, CTO

Software engineering and business leader since 2012. Has developed complex penetration test systems, deep tech projects with reverse engineering and assembler. Has extensive experience in game development, having titles with several AAA+ games. Switched to DeFi in 2018, and since then has audited smart contracts.

Alistair Dupont, Head of Derivatives

Alistair Dupont, Head of Derivatives

A former options market maker and investment banker focused on mid-market - $30-500 Mn - Enterprise Technology Buy and Sell-Side Advisory. Alistair is also Co-Founder and CEO at FiFlow.

Roadmap

Date Milestone
Q3 2021 MVP team formation
Q3 2021 Tokenomics creation and website launch
Q1 2022 Creation of dy.finance SIP010 token
Q1 2022 dy.finance SIP010 token smart contract audit
Q1 2022 Expansion of the team; front-end engineer, community manager, marketing lead
Q1 2022 Development of the perpetuals pricing engine
Q2 2022 dy.finance community building commencement (Discord & Twitter)
Q2 2022 v1 smart contract audit
Q2 2022 Launch of v1
  • Perpetuals
  • Hiro web interface ‘wallets’ connection
  • Market makers provide liquidity to earn yield
  • APIs
  • Risk analysis: Insurance fund
Q3 2022 Expansion of the team to include a third co-founder
Q3 2022 Series A funding
Q4 2022
  • Alts, and Stacks native perpetuals contracts
  • Chart.js market depth charts
  • Collaboration with DeFi lending platforms to use perpetuals to augment their conventional liquidations framework and hedge their risk across our liquidity pool. Allowing them to reduce loan collateral requirements and set market based collateralization rules and fee assessments.
Q4 2022 Launch of v2
  • Dy.finance on Stacks hyperchain
  • On-chain order book
Q4 2022 Public token sale
Q4 2022 Launch of 10% bug bounty program
Q3 2023 Launch of v3
  • Cross-margin
  • Circuit breakers
  • Leverage adjustments
  • Auto-deleveraging
  • UI features including trade history
  • Translation to Spanish, German, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Japanese
  • Adding futures contracts for alternative assets
    • BTC volatility
  • Large cap crypto index
Q3 2024 Launch of v4 (Bogota) OTC
  • Permissionless OTC market creation, tradebuilder for credit default swaps and exotic options with non-standardized strike prices and expiration dates
  • Referral engine
Q1 2025 Transition to a DAO