Valio is revolutionizing the asset management sector within DeFi. We believe that the decentralized asset management industry will continue to grow, and we strive to separate ourselves from competitors with our innovative design and protocol features. If you want to learn more about our differentiators and CPIT, we explained specific fundamental protocol mechanics at length in an earlier article.

As we approach our mainnet launch, we're excited to reveal key protocol features, launch offerings, and future plans in our third installment of the Intro to Valio series.

Live Demo

Before our launch, we built a live working demo deployed at: https://demo.valio.xyz/.

Feel free to take it for a spin. The purpose of the demo is to showcase the ease of exploring a broad selection of vaults. While you won’t be able to create a vault or deposit funds today, we’re shipping the final product with the launch of our trading competition later this month.

Users can view featured, top-performing, and index (lower-risk) portfolios on the Valio homepage; however, note that the index portfolio currently serves as a placeholder. As you can gauge, some of these will be handpicked by Valio (e.g., featured vaults), while other featured vaults will be the best performers for a given period. The homepage will also display a curated list of the top-performing managers. This means that depositors will have a host of vaults to choose from, each with different risk and return profiles. The vaults are managed by various managers who will trade and/or invest on the depositor's behalf. They can then take it a step further by visiting the Explore page.

Here, a depositor can search through all available vaults and play around with the filters to find the perfect manager - one that fits their risk profile and investment style.

On the My Positions page, depositors can view a comprehensive snapshot of all their investments. They can view the different vaults they’ve invested in, returns generated based on different durations, portfolio asset allocation, and vault activity. This page contains all the necessary data to assess the performance of their investments and provides transparency into how each vault is being managed.

Now let’s explore the manager’s point of view.

Under the Manage page, a manager can view their active vaults. They can view the total AUM, number of depositors, and net P&L. Furthermore, they can edit their profile, which can also be done from the top right corner at all times. Nonetheless, this allows them to upload a custom avatar, link their Twitter handle, and write a bio. New vaults can quickly be spun up on this page as well.

This is a brief overview of what Valio will offer at launch. We encourage you to take a look and experience it for yourself, and we will have plenty more features integrated at launch.

Social Media Integrations

Establishing reliable and trusted communication channels between managers and investors is crucial for promoting a community-centric investment management experience. Therefore, when a vault is created, a private Discord server is automatically generated. This enables investors to interact with one another and communicate effortlessly with the manager, ensuring they stay informed about any vault activity.

In addition to Discord, we recognize the significant role that Twitter plays in building a personal brand and reputation within the industry. As a result, every manager can connect their Twitter handle to their profile. This not only serves as a communication channel but also can help to legitimize the vault manager. It will go the other way too, wherein a talented manager (who may not have an active Twitter following) can grow an audience by providing exceptional results to their investors and be discovered by the masses. After all, we’re building a talent discovery marketplace.

Trading Competition

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be launching “Season 0” of Valio later this month. This trading competition will be structured to incentivize and reward budding vault managers. The competition will benefit managers who can generate outsized returns for their investors and depositors who pick the most talented managers to invest their capital with.

The first set of managers to have access to the platform will be a whitelisted group of users. After a week has passed, the platform will open to the public. The trading competition is intended to last 7 weeks. The maximum deposit amount per wallet will be $500, and the maximum fund AUM will be capped at $5,000. These limits will be lifted in due time. 

Rewards will be aimed at users who demonstrate exceptional portfolio performance and are actively engaged with the platform, regardless of whether they achieve significant trading success. Keep an eye on Discord and Twitter for more information about loot boxes and tips on maximizing your rewards.

Partner Protocols

An essential part of Valio is the various partner protocols that we integrate with. Being built on top of LayerZero means that the possibilities are infinite. However, we have established a thorough vetting process to ensure that only top-rated, trusted, and genuine DeFi protocols are supported. While Valio aims to provide a wide variety of trading platforms for managers, ensuring depositor security will always be a top priority when considering new integrations. This means potentially passing up on allowing users to deposit and trade using newer projects with high emissions schedules. Again, the goal is to serve depositors and managers at the highest level.

Our initial launch will utilize GMX and 0x to access various trading pairs and sufficient leverage for our degen traders. We look forward to continuing to grow this list in the future.

Conclusion

This caps off our intro to Valio blog series. We’ve laid out the opportunity of bringing asset management on-chain, dove into Valio’s core innovations, and presented the roadmap leading up to the launch. We’re excited to bring the future of asset management to the people, giving traders all the tools they need to operate top-tier funds and giving investors a unified marketplace for discovering talented traders. 

There are plenty more details regarding the impending mainnet launch and Season 0, so stay in the loop by following us on Twitter and joining our Discord server.