Cork Protocol
@Corkprotocol

The rails for risk Price, hedge and transfer any observable onchain risk Backed by @RoadCapMgmt and @a16zcrypto CSX

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Joined March 2024
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Thoughts from our engineers on trusting machines

Last week we sat down separately with Rob Schmitt, who cofounded Cork, and Baptiste Florentin, our CTO, who runs most of the security review. Same rough question for both. What has actually changed in
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Zyfai and bond.credit’s AI Agents Just Priced and Settled Risk on Cork with No Humans Involved

On the last night of Arbitrum's Open House London, in the Founder House phase of the program, three teams sat in the same room and did something that’s never  been done before: they let autonomous

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Insurance is ready for its stablecoin moment

Today, insurance is sitting exactly where the dollar was before stablecoins turned into a $300 billion market. Insurance is the biggest financial market almost nobody trades. Nearly $7.8 trillion in

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We gave agents engines and forgot the airbags

Give a car an engine and nothing else and you get a very fast way to get hurt. That is roughly what we have built for AI agents in crypto. Every part of the stack that lets them go fast is live.

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Every DAO treasury is naked: How BonkDAO lost $20M

Last week, BonkDAO lost roughly $20 million worth of tokens from its treasury. There was no exploit in the code, no compromised key, no bridge hack. A whale accumulated enough voting power to control
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A Brief History of Risk: The Next Leap

Every step in the history of risk management allowed the economy of their times to flourish in new ways. The Genoese merchants of the fourteenth century had written contracts, legal enforcement, and a

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A Brief History of Risk: How We Learned to Price the Future

There’s a thread that runs through every major advance in financial history, from Babylonian sea merchants to modern derivatives desks. These aren’t just stories about prosperity, gold rushes, or
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Case Study: Vault Bridge Tapped Cork to Pioneer Productive Approach to Liquidity Reserves

Agglayer's VaultBridge earns yield for its users by deploying bridged funds into Morpho lending markets on Ethereum. When users bridge USDC to Katana, they receive the vbUSDC yield-bearing token. On

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One Layer, Multiple Risk Solutions for Agentic Finance

Agentic finance is changing what onchain markets actually look like. There's more volume, more actions, more data, and all of it moves faster than the human-paced markets DeFi was designed for. Over
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The Anatomy of Credit

DeFi has built a lending economy worth tens of billions of dollars without ever building a credit market underneath it. That sounds like wordplay until you take a real credit transaction apart and

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The Agentic Risk Surface Area

DeFi has always carried risks such as smart contract vulnerabilities, oracle manipulation, depeg events, and liquidity crunches. These are known, documented, and in some cases partially priced into

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Greed has a soundtrack. It's called APY.

If you've been onchain for more than one cycle, you've heard the song. The melody changes but the chorus never does. Sushi paid 200%. Anchor paid 19.5% right up until Terra wasn't a chain anymore.

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