TheStandard has been built to enable anyone to borrow without interest or trusting an authority. By enabling the borrowers to trade and earn a yield with their locked collateral, we remove the barriers to financial freedom.
TheStandard was the brainchild of Joshua Scigala but had many people contribute over the last 5 years in development.
"We shouldn't need to rely on centralized entities such as FTX, Celsius, or BlockFi, which, despite being regulated, engaged in speculation with user collateral under the guise of offering debt services and ultimately declared bankruptcy. This underscores the importance of building a standard that simply doesn't need or have access to user funds.
MATH is the ultimate regulator. 2+2 will always equal 4! Smart contracts rather than trsted banks."
Joshua Scigala
Free and Open source is the only way to ensure total security. Anybody can test the code that the DAO has created.
All code has been audited by professional code auditors (Cyfrin) and anyone can do the same because the code is all there to look at for anybody.
When Satoshi created Bitcoin, he didn't think, "Oh, let's create centralized stablecoins, where $1 in some fractionally reserved bank is equal to one token." He thought, "Let's decentralize money." We just make it stable.
The concept of a DAO is one of the most underrated aspects of crypto. The fact that a community of like-minded people can be invested in the success of a protocol by voting on its direction is stunning.
All smart contracts can be read, audited, and even cloned. But we don't stop there, our front end and everything else is free and open source.
TheStandard is innovating ideas like dynamic NFTs. Each Smart Vault is represented by an NFT that updates data from the blockchain about how much debt and collateral that vault has. Anyone can sell their debt and collateral as an NFT and the buyer gets to pay off the debt and remove the collateral.
Mathematics is the ultimate ruler. With maths, we can create rules that can not be broken. A smart contract can only follow the mathematical rules set out. No middlemen that can be corrupted are involved.
Old-school Bitcoiner cypherpunk cowboys. People who believe in transparency for the powerful, and privacy for the weak.