UniLend Project Updates #4 — January 2021
When we began our journey, we had the single objective of bringing DeFi access to every coin/token in the market, but as we grew, so did our ambitions. Our new target to become an unmatched DeFi leader is already well underway, and in January we demonstrated that our thirst for success was only outpaced by our ability to deliver results.
With our successful Alpha release of UniLend Initium V1 in December, we started 2021 off with a huge bang, and we’ve only just begun to initiate this year’s exhilarating roadmap.
Our fourth project update should demonstrate our ongoing ability to complete our mission. While we hope you’ve enjoyed every moment of this expedition so far, we invite you to hold tight as we continue to defy gravity.
Major Updates
Get Ready to Experience the Power of UniLend! Initium V1 (our Alpha) is Being Opened Up to the Entire Community!
Jan 23: 👨💻 After the successful launch of UniLend Initium V1, we quickly rolled out our Early Access program for a select group of supporters to test Initium. We’re grateful for the excellent feedback!
🦾 Of course, there are many other features on the way. Before launching these features, we’d like to hear further feedback. Hence, we’re now opening Alpha to everyone!
🤝 Initium V1 is an excellent opportunity to experience UniLend first-hand, see how the platform functions, and directly assist with the development of the protocol.
ℹ️ Read more about our open access launch and find the link to register here: https://rb.gy/90oz7j
🚀 This marks the beginning of a new chapter for UniLend and we’re proud to have you along for the journey as we continue to evolve and revolutionize finance!
Pioneering Decentralized Stock Lending/Borrowing Alongside Mirror Protocol
Jan 14: 📈 UniLend is to become the world’s first platform for decentralized lending/borrowing of major stocks (including FAANG — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) alongside Mirror Protocol!
🔥 In a major move for DeFi, we’re welcoming Mirror Protocol into the UniLend ecosystem to enable decentralized lending and borrowing of synthetic stocks via UniLend — making UniLend the first decentralized platform to offer such functionality!
📈 Mirror Finance will allow for the creation of fungible synthetic assets that track the price of real-world assets, ultimately bringing the world’s assets to the blockchain. This will enable the major global stock market assets to enter into DeFi.
🦾 By combining Mirror Protocol’s interchain synthetic assets with our powerful decentralized lending and borrowing functionality, we will open up new financial strategies for the decentralized community and will change traditional finance for the better.
ℹ️ Read more about our collaboration here.
🥂 Strategic collaborations such as this with Mirror Protocol are a critical component of breaking the chains of centralized power and opening the door to a free and open internet of money for the world. Onward to the new decentralized financial paradigm!
UniLend & Injective Protocol Strike an Integral Partnership to Usher in Yield Farming for Derivatives
Jan 29: 📈 We’re unlocking new yield farming opportunities for derivatives products alongside Injective! Users will be able to utilize UniLend’s powerful borrowing & lending functionality with Injective’s derivatives products. Our collaboration will introduce brave, new, and more flexible options for the DeFi industry.
✅ Naturally, this means that Injective’s $INJ token will be listed on UniLend. Additionally, $UFT will launch on Injective’s decentralized trading platform in the near future, to further expand the reach of both tokens.
🚀 Injective has taken the industry by storm, capturing the attention of the entire space. We’re excited to be pushing the boundaries of DeFi together!
🌐 Full details: https://rb.gy/pipako
UniLend Sponsors ETH India Online: EtherPunk 2021
Jan 20: 🛠 UniLend is supporting innovation on Ethereum by sponsoring ETHIndia Online: EtherPunk 2021, Asia’s biggest Ethereum hackathon!
💥ETHIndia Online hosts hackers from around the world to collaborate together to work on decentralized applications using Ethereum. ETHIndia has become a popular hub for developers and entrepreneurs who are interested in BUIDLing on Ethereum.
🦾UniLend Finance is a strong proponent of the Ethereum ecosystem and the DeFi revolution. We’re always looking to empower and support entrepreneurs, developers and enthusiasts throughout the industry.
🚀Sponsoring ETHIndia Online is a great way to accelerate the growth of DeFi and to further drive adoption of decentralized finance industry across Asia and beyond. We hope to see you there!
🌐 Are you a fellow BUIDLer? Learn more about ETHIndia Online: https://etherpunk.devfolio.co/
Collaborations & Integrations
Find the Best Going Rate for UFT with Our New Listing on ParaSwap!
Jan 5: 🛒 There’s no need to shop all the DEXs on the market for the best going rate for UFT any longer. Now that we’re listed on ParaSwap’s price aggregating DEX platform, you can easily shop many DEXs at once.
🔼 ParaSwap gathers orders from across multiple exchanges into one optimized and secure transaction. They also use GasToken.io (GST2), when possible, so that network fees are cheaper.
🔎 The DEXs ParaSwap aggregates going rates from, to swap UFT are: Uniswap, SushiSwap and Balancer. We are excited to be listed on such a technically robust swap platform.
🌐 Utilize ParaSwap Today: https://paraswap.io/
Welcoming Fire Protocol into the UniLend Ecosystem to Advance Cross-Chain DeFi
Jan 9: 🚀 Next-gen DeFi protocol Fire Protocol will integrate with UniLend to bring more assets to Huobi Eco Chain (HECO). In addition, our teams are currently working together to explore wrapped UFT to bring UFT to Fire Protocol, and thus HECO.
🔥Our collaboration will bridge the DeFi ecosystems on Ethereum and Huobi Eco Chain, enabling them to frictionlessly grow alongside one another, whilst providing new opportunities for UFT holders.
“UniLend is committed to assisting innovators in emerging DeFi ecosystems to flourish and thrive, to accelerate the overall DeFi industry on its path to mass adoption. We look forward to collaborating with Fire Protocol to help bring this to fruition.”
- Chandresh Aharwar, UniLend Co-founder & CEO
🌐 Learn more about our collaboration: https://rb.gy/zoaca6
🦾 We’re committed to constantly innovating, BUIDLing and collaborating so that we can all enjoy a bright decentralized future together sooner. 2021 is going to be a monumental year for UniLend and for the DeFi space as a whole!
Nord Finance Joins the UniLend Ecosystem to Enable Simplified DeFi Investing Strategies
Jan 11: 🎯 Nord Finance is on the bleeding edge of DeFi tech solutions. They’re also delving into the realms of yield farming aggregation, fund management, loans against crypto-assets and robo-advisory.
🦾 Nord Finance will integrate UniLend Finance into the Nord Advisory portion of their tech stack, enabling new DeFi investing strategies for the DeFi community. Nord Finance’s community will be introduced to the innovative features of our protocol, thus helping to further enhance our future growth.
💡UniLend Finance will continue to pursue further collaborations with Nord Finance while the market shapes up. The conversation has just begun, though future concepts are underway.
🌐 Read more about our collaboration here.
UniLend’s Market Exposure Increased with our Listing on LiveCoinWatch
Jan 3: ⏲ How long until UniLend reaches the top 100 by market cap? Keep track with LiveCoinWatch’s live crypto analytics platform.
📈 LiveCoinWatch covers the cryptocurrency market with live coin prices, charts, and market cap data via their streamlined interface. They also offer a personal portfolio tracker and other interesting charts for the crypto savvy.
📲 Track UniLend on LiveCoinWatch here.
Get a Competitive Edge Over the Market with Our New Listing on CryptoCompare
Jan 14: 🤔 There’s no need to wonder how UFT is performing when you have access to CryptoCompare. Acquire market data for over 5,300 coins and 240,000+ currency pairs.
📈 At a granular level, CryptoCompare produces real-time price data feeds, order book details, historical info, social repositories and much more. Establish full dominion over your portfolio today with the full suite of CryptoCompare’s capabilities.
💎 UniLend continues to establish meaningful connections and listings in hopes of giving our community the upper hand. Knowledge is power and crypto data aggregators are part of the lifeblood of successful crypto decision making.
🌐 Obtain a holistic overview of UFT today by visiting: https://bit.ly/3onhXsh
Community Initiatives & Education
As the New Year Began, our Alpha release Initium V1 Began to Breathe Life!
Jan 2: 🚀 What’s all the buzz about? Take a look, Initium V1 went live in early January and our early access examiners have been experimenting with all its glory.
We’re now opening up access to Initium to the entire community!
ℹ️ Read more about our open access launch and find the link to register here: https://rb.gy/90oz7j
Initium guides:
📺 Walkthrough by our community member here.
🌐 UniLend Official Initium V1 written guide here.
💥 It’s a great feeling to start 2021 so strong, with our successful Alpha release leading the way. We’ve said it before, this is just the beginning, so be prepared for our exhilarating 2021 roadmap.
💪 We have large community events, strategic partnerships and tech updates planned in the near future! So buckle up and dive head first into our DeFi revolution, we can’t wait to see you join.
Awarding our First Pride of UniLend, Ben Humbert, with the Title of POU!
Jan 3: 🥇In early January we were proud to announce Ben Humbert as our first recipient of the title of PoU (Pride of UniLend).
🦾 We’ve seen everything Ben has done, his amazing knowledge base and the support he provides to the UniLend community. We appreciate Ben’s consistency, and we’ve rewarded him with $50 in UFT as a token of our gratitude.
🛡 UniLend Finance is a movement, unlocking the true potential of decentralized finance and opening new opportunities for the crypto community. Thank you for helping to accelerate us on our journey!
👏 2021 has begun with a bang, Initium V1 is now live, yet there’s so much more to look forward to this year. The best part of this is having such an amazing community to join us for the ride.
Announcing our Final DeFi Dissected Article and the Launch of our UniLend Deciphered Series!
Jan 9: 🧐 In our final instalment of the DeFi Dissected series we compared UniLend to Cream Finance. Dive in to discover why UniLend is poised to become a major component of the DeFi ecosystem: https://rb.gy/jep99d
🔥 DeFi Dissected has outlined the true revolutionary potential UniLend offers in comparison to key DeFi players. We hope it’s been illuminating and that our vision’s been communicated clearly.
🦾 With the end of DeFi Dissected comes the beginning of a brand new article series — UniLend Deciphered! UniLend Deciphered will dive into the inner technical workings of the UniLend protocol to highlight our unique value propositions at a tech level.
We think you’ll be very excited by what we reveal. Stay tuned! 👀
Introducing our Shield of Excellence Community Initiative
Jan 13: 🙌 We recently introduced UniLend’s latest monthly community initiative: the Shield of Excellence! An award for our superstar community members, complete with a $100 prize!
🥇The Shield of Excellence is an exclusive title which will be presented to superstar community members who go above and beyond to spread the word of UniLend and bolster our community. Each month one community member will win the Shield of Excellence and earn the $100 reward in $UFT.
👀This initiative is meant to reward community members who continue to support UniLend on social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Reddit. Creating content, graphics or memes is also very much appreciated and will definitely catch our eye.
🤝The strong community behind UniLend has always been very active in spreading the word. We’re continually looking for new ways to show our gratitude for your efforts.
Launching Our UniLend Sticker Competition
Jan 21: 🙌 We recently invited our community to get their design and creativity juices flowing by taking part in our UniLend Sticker Competition!
🥳By joining the UniLend Sticker Competition our community was able to showcase their creativity to the entire community while getting the chance to win UFT! 3 winners will be selected to be rewarded from a pool of $150 in UFT.
Rewards:
🥇1st place: $75
🏅Runner up: $50
🏅2nd Runner up: $25
🚀Community-made UniLend themed stickers are a great creative outlet that lets everyone see the project and the strong community behind it.
📆 Now that the submission period has come to a close, we’ll be announcing the winners of our Sticker Competition in the coming days. Stay tuned!
Thank you for letting your creativity shine and showing the crypto space the power of our community! 💪
Community Outreach
AMA With One of the Earliest Projects in Our Ecosystem, StaFi!
Jan 6: 📆UniLend’s CEO, Chandresh Aharwar, and Community Lead, Vishal Kothari joined the StaFi Telegram for an AMA with their community. The StaFi community got an introduction to our next-gen DeFi platform and the profound impact of our collaboration on facilitating the evolution of DeFi.
🦾StaFi’s unique platform adds more utility to your staked tokens by converting them to rTokens, allowing them to interact with DeFi protocols. Stakers will soon be able to bring their rTokens to UniLend and take advantage of the many DeFi capabilities of our platform.
🎁The AMA consisted of a live Q&A session with the community during which 300 $UFT was split among 15 participants. It pays to join us live!
Terraform Labs and Mirror Protocol AMA
Jan 19: 📆 Jeff Kuan (Business Development Lead) and Aayush Gupta (Community Lead and Manager) at Terraform Labs joined the UniLend community for an AMA on January 20th.
Terraform Labs is the team behind Mirror Protocol, which is enabling the major global stock market assets to enter into DeFi via synthetic assets. These synthetic stocks will be able to be lent and borrowed on UniLend!
Jeff and Aayush connected with the UniLend community to discuss how mAssets will be integrated into UniLend.
Discussed topics included:
• Introduction to Mirror Protocol.
• The future use cases between Mirror mAssets and UniLend.
🎁 10 lucky winners from twitter were each rewarded with 10 $UST tokens!
Nord Finance Joins UniLend for an AMA
Jan 21: 📆 Amarnath Reddy — CEO & Co-Founder of our ecosystem partner project Nord Finance — joined the UniLend community for an AMA. Amarnath discussed how Nord Advisory will be integrating UniLend protocol.
Discussed topics included:
• Introduction to Nord Finance.
• The future use cases between Nord Finance and UniLend.
🎁 10 lucky winners from twitter were each rewarded with $10 in $NORD tokens 🤩. It pays to join our AMAs!
Live AMA with LunarCrush
Jan 22: 🔈In this unforgettable AMA, our CEO, Chandresh Aharwar, and Community Manager, Vishal Kothari, went live to spill the beans about UniLend’s latest developments and how our platform will revolutionize DeFi in 2021.
🌕 LunarCRUSH is the world’s best platform for real-time cryptocurrency social media analytics.
Check out the replay, right here.
Let’s Talk About GAINS! AMA with Gains Associates
Jan 26: 🎉 Our Co-founder & CEO, Chandresh Aharwar and Marketing & Operations Lead Ayush Garg, joined the Gains Associates Telegram community for a particularly eventful AMA session.
🙋♂️There was a huge amount of interest from participants who wanted to learn more about UniLend, our progress thus far, future plans and the details of our newly launched Initium V1 Alpha.
Hosting an AMA with our Ecosystem Partner Bluzelle
Jan 28: 🙋♂️ We invited Pavel Bains, the CEO of Bluzelle, to join the UniLend community for an AMA last week. Pavel connected with the UniLend community to discuss the partnership with UniLend protocol.
Topics up for discussion were:
• Introduction to Bluzelle.
• The future use cases between Bluzelle and UniLend.
🤝 Thank you to everyone who took part! If you missed the AMA, you can read more about our partnership here: https://buff.ly/2TjBsnH
Community Growth
UniLend Telegram Crosses 15,000 Community Members
Jan 8: 📈 We were thrilled to announce that we surpassed 15,000 community members in our Telegram group as our awareness and reach continues to grow exponentially!
🦾 UniLend Finance is a community first project, which means we do everything we do for our community. In the end, a growing community is proof that we’re headed in the right direction.
Join in on the conversation within our Unilend Finance telegram community channel and be a part of the new DeFi revolution!
👥 Telegram / Announcements / Twitter
Announcing UniLend’s Vietnam Community
Jan 12: 🇻🇳 In order to keep up with our massive community growth we have launched our second regional community. This time it is Vietnam! Xin Chào🙏
💎 As a community centered project It is exciting to see our community growing so quickly!
🌏 Please join us in giving our new community members a warm welcome, it is important that we not only revolutionize DeFi, but that we also strive for a strong community worldwide. More regional communities are coming soon!
🦾 Many hands make light work, so let’s work together to spread the word that UniLend is here to unlock the true potential of decentralized finance.
🌐 Join our vibrant Vietnamese community here.
We Crossed 12,000 Followers on Twitter
Jan 16: Up up and away! We recently crossed the 12K follower threshold on Twitter! 🎊
🕺 We’re proud of our lively and growing community. Recently, to keep up with growth, we also launched our Indonesian and Vietnamese Telegram communities.
💃 As we continue to grow, we want to say thank you to all our supporters. From day one we’ve seen our group extending their hand to newcomers, unpacking our narrative on social media and taking part in our social events.
The UniLend team would like to thank our community for your incredible support. We remain available to you should you have any questions. Don’t hesitate to reach out!
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