Welcome to Strider: Removing the Dust From Defi
Many have compared the world of decentralized finance (defi) to the American West during the country’s expansion, or to an uninhabited, and potentially inhospitable, jungle. On the one hand, there is significant beauty and potential. On the other, there are chances to be met with danger around every corner.
One of the appeals of a decentralized system is that rules, obstacles, boundaries, etc. are only existent if we want them to be. Nobody, beyond ourselves, can tell us how things have to work.
That said, even the biggest blockchain booster will admit that there are some protections in traditional finance (tradfi) that are beneficial. Being able to access your money, for instance, can be easier in a tangible space (it is rare, for instance, to experience full removal of liquidity in a tradfi banking system or stock exchange) and with protections on deposits in many countries, you can sleep soundly knowing your funds won’t disappear.
All of this got us thinking: “What if you could take the best elements from a tradfi system and set them to work in a fully decentralized way? What would that be like?”
Well, $STRIDR is what that would be like.
The $STRIDR token is the foundation of our plan to create a global funding system based on utility and revenue sharing within the defi space. And, we are building up from that foundation by taking the best of what decentralization can offer and embedding some of the best parts of a more centralized approach.
Sound impossible? Well, it isn’t.
Our first focus is our Strider Bot. This Telegram bot, which we will speak more about in our next Medium post, highlights the many great things we can do when programming and the blockchain mix. We have put countless hours into crafting our Strider Bot to do everything that a defi user needs, and more. Like the common water strider insect, our bot is built on six “legs”, all of which are fundamental to how we operate as a team. They are:
- Accessibility: Our tools have to be usable by all.
- Decentralization: Yes, we have a team. And yes, our community is part of it.
- Engagement: Every part of all we do has to be fun and enjoyable. Even the best code gets nowhere if the U/I is a dumpster fire.
- Innovation: We will never be a simple copy/pasta. We build on the shoulders of giants, we don’t just stand there.
- Low/No Cost: Economics cannot get in the way of everyone getting a sense of what we do.
- Alignment: We’ve studied the market and know how to connect with those in our community and those who will soon want to be a part of it.
And, so, also like the common water strider, one of the first ways we are addressing all aspects of our identity, has been to give our Strider Bot the ability to skim. Just like how a strider glides over the water, our bot’s skimming feature allows token holders to appropriately sell percentages of their tokens without rekting the chart and without impacting their own profit margins (more on this next time). On top of that, and to reconnect with an earlier theme, because skimming settings are built around an achieved market cap of the holder’s choice, that person can safely sleep on their bags, knowing that if their target is hit, then at least some of their tokens will be sold (either to recoup an investment or for profit). No more sleeping on a pump and then waking to a responding dump. Set your skim, sleep, and smile.
There is much more in store for our Strider Bot and the $STRIDR token. In future Medium posts we will discuss our NFTs, our bot in more detail, revenue sharing, the future of $STRIDR, and more.
But for now, sleep soundly knowing that Strider is here to help you remove the dust from defi.
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