[EXPLAINER] A Look at Olympus DAO – Creating Crypto’s Decentralized Reserve Currency – BitcoinKE

OlympusDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that manages the Olympus Protocol, an algorithmic currency protocol with the goal of becoming a stable crypto-native currency.

DAOs distribute the governance of an organization among community members who vote on key issues. Using governance tokens they vote on topics such as allocations, partnerships, treasury functions, etc. Members of the OlympusDAO utilize a community forum and Discord to access the voting process even though the DAO is currently implemented at just a high level.

The DAO’s native token is called Olympus ($OHM) and serves both as a stable currency and governance token. Protocol-owned assets back each token in the Olympus treasury.

Though sometimes referred to as an algorithmic stablecoin, Olympus is more akin to a central bank since it holds other assets in reserve like $DAI to manage its price. The goal is to achieve price stability while maintaining a floating market-driven price.

Olympus Mission

Olympus aims to install $OHM as crypto’s decentralized reserve currency.

OHM’s purpose is to provide the growing Web3 financial ecosystem with a censorship-resistant currency that preserves purchasing power, has deep liquidity, is trusted, and is widely used as a unit of account.

Olympus aims to solve Web3’s reliance on centralized, censorable stablecoin assets by creating a non-pegged reserve currency called $OHM that is backed by a basket of assets. Olympus actively utilizes its Treasury as a counter balance to the market  and to grow the economy.

A fully formed $OHM is expected to provide the following benefits, with the organization running several campaigns to enhance OHM’s capacity:

• Preserves purchasing power via long-term price stability
• Has deep liquidity across decentralized and centralized exchanges
• Is utilized as a unit of account (e.g. by being paired against many other assets in Web3)
• Is utilized as trusted backing (e.g. to collateralize other assets or deposited into protocols’ treasuries)

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How It Works

The protocol lets users buy $OHM at a discount which bonds them to the network and gives them the incentive to increase native tokens by adding liquidity through staking or yield farming.

Bonding is thought to be a more efficient way to maintain liquidity on decentralized exchanges. Currently, to incentivize liquidity providers (LPs) to keep their liquidity locked in staking pools, AMMs(Automated Market Makers) offer very high rewards in their native tokens which eventually causes a drop in the supply of the native token.

However, in Olympus, since the users provide liquidity (other crypto assets) to the protocol in exchange for discounted $OHM, the protocol gets to own the liquidity and not the LPs. Olympus also employs compound interest to reward stakers which is more profitable over time.

$OHM is backed, not pegged. Each $OHM is backed by $1 worth of assets in the treasury, not pegged to it.

Because the treasury backs every $OHM with at least $1, the protocol would buy back and burn $OHM when it trades below $1. This has the effect of pushing $OHM price back up to $1. On the other hand, $OHM could always trade above $1 because there is no upper limit imposed by the protocol. Think pegged == 1, while backed >= 1.

Conclusion

The  Olympus Protocol is currently doing campaigns to bootstrap deep $OHM liquidity with wide acceptance in DeFi on all layers and chains.

See also

This is part of a 3-pronged approach to boost adoption. The other pillars include a reserve pillar to establish purchasing power and a utility pillar to drive usage for $OHM as a currency that can be exchanged for a whole lot of tokens in DeFi, as well as services and products.

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