what's Harbor?
Harbor is a DeFi protocol offering pegged synthetic assets with real yield and liquidation-protected leveraged positions. Users can short assets like ETH or BTC against USD, long ETH/BTC via stETH, and participate in markets such as haBTC and haETH without funding fees, margin calls, or manual rebalancing. Liquidity providers earn yield while positions automatically adjust to maintain exposure. The protocol features stability pools for anchoring pegs and accruing Marks for early users toward the $TIDE governance and value accrual token airdrop. It emphasizes safe leverage ("leverage without PTSD") and plans expansion to additional markets like EUR, Gold, and Silver, bootstrapping organic TVL on EVM-compatible chains.
Harbor initiated its early liquidity seeding round.
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x.com/0xharborfiStarted early liquidity seeding round.
Proposes to become one of the first DeFi protocols to go public as a commodity token onchain through a three-step PATI model (Public Acquisition, Token Issuance, Fusion) that involves going public via SPAC/IPO, distributing tokens 1:1 to shareholders under CLARITY Act safe harbor, and converting to an ETP/SPV structure allowing perpetual 1:1 create/redeem between shares and tokens.
Partnered with Kronos Research to connect markets, liquidity, and teams for DeFi development.
Harbour is a DEX solution in the THORChain ecosystem family, grouped with Chainflip and Maya as projects derived from THORChain's direction.
Initial DEX Offering (IDO) launches on HyperEVM platform.