Dear Seeders, great news!
We’re thrilled to announce that Seed Venture and Mintlayer are official partners!
As you are well aware by now, we are building a bridge between decentralized finance (”DeFi”) and real economy to provide liquidity matching between investors and startups. Liquidity is one of the most important aspects of every market, because it greatly affects asset prices.
From the beginning the main blockchain for the DeFi ecosystem was Ethereum, but since the inception we have long trusted that we could open up the possibility of raising capital in bitcoin as well.
Here we go!
About Mintlayer
Mintlayer is a blockchain for financial markets, built on Bitcoin, who offers future-proof sustainability and long-term plans for scalability.
While DeFi is mostly built on other blockchains, such as Ethereum and later Polkadot or Avalanche, Mintlayer stands out by being the better sustainable architectures for DeFi integration on Bitcoin. The platform offers a variety of features to ensure security, privacy, scalability and interoperability, all while serving decentralized financial markets.
Seed Venture is proud to be partners of Mintlayer, a real promising ‘Bitcoin DeFi’ protocol.
Let’s try to summarize the main features below.
ENHANCING DECENTRALIZATION
Anyone can run nodes with minimal hardware requirements. The validation time has Bitcoin-like speed, and each node communicates with peers to perform atomic swap transactions. This enables a fully decentralized exchange.
DELIVER SCALABILITY
Smaller transaction size & minimized transfer fees. The Lightning Network technology guarantees scalability of tokenized assets.
REDUCING FRICTIONS
Long-term scalability for low fees and fast transactions.
INCREASING INTEROPERABILITY
Aggregated payments and multi-token transfers support, easy token porting, peg-in/out for wrapped tokens & cross-chain swaps.
PROVIDING SECURITY
DSA (Dynamic Slot Allotment) is Mintlayer’s refined model based on Proof-of-Stake. It provides economic incentives for users maintaining the network. Also, the architecture of a Bitcoin sidechain allows any network participant to enforce checkpoints on the Bitcoin blockchain. Smart contracts on Mintlayer reduce contract failure risk.
Fundraising Campaigns
By strongly relying on the security of the BTC network and thanks to the explained features of Mintlayer such as well-designed sidechain, Seed Venture will offer the opportunity to run a fundraising campaign for Start-ups (not necessary blockchain-based!) thanks to the 4 strengths of the platform:
SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Create a fluid secondary market, as an alternative to Start-ups’ shares traditionally illiquid, where anonymity and privacy will be preserved for traders.
BE PERCEIVED SECURE AND COMPLIANT
Traditional Start-ups and related crowd investors are still afraid by approaching decentralized platforms. Seedefi interfaces work as crowdfunding-like journey, for both parties.
BRIDGING REGULATION AND PRIVACY
Depending on the single approach, everyone can invest in Start-ups in the way it feels better. The Seed’s wrapping model create two separate worlds, with different advantages.
EASY ACCESS.
Financial inclusion can be realized by an user-friendly access through web based interfaces, with simple and intuitive actions. On the other side, Start-ups can create fundraising campaigns in the blockchain or layers they feel fits better.
Conclusion
This new partnership is pure energy and pushes us to raise the bar of our goals even higher.
Seed Venture is not standing still.
And you, guys, how do you see a future for Bitcoin in decentralized finance as well?
