Amulet

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Amulet is a decentralized risk protection protocol for the Rust-based ecosystem initially deployed on Solana.

Decentralized risk protection protocols provide a financial safety net for all users interacting with Web3 financial products. They generally encompasse smart contract risk, stablecoin de-peg risk, slashing risk, oracle failures, economic exploits, etc. Risk of smart contract exploits is particularly significant with over $3B lost to smart contract hacks in 2021. By offering protection against these more common DeFi risk types along with NFT and metaverse-related offerings, users and developers alike can enjoy a safer Web3 through Amulet.

DeFi has experienced exponential growth since the summer of 2020 with the influx of hundreds of billions in capital and the emergence of multibillion-dollar protocols in just a little over two years. Riding along this wave of explosive growth is a rapidly increasing demand for risk hedging.

Rust-based public chains have been maturing rapidly with growth spearheaded in particular by Solana. According to Amulet's research, TVL on Solana has grown 5x faster than on Ethereum, and this growth is expected to continue given the distinctive strengths of Solana centered around its lower cost and higher throughput.

At the moment, risk management solutions are still relatively scarce or non-existent on Solana and the Rust-based ecosystems at large, presenting Amulet with an incredible and unique market opportunity. Amulet expects major demand for its cover products and other risk management solutions along with Solana's continued growth and adoption.

Existing DeFi risk protection protocols rely on external underwriters to provide capital for claim payouts and cover capacity, which introduces unique and difficult challenges over business sustainability. Amulet is creating the risk protection industry's first Protocol-Controlled Underwriting ("PCU") approach. This is a significant change from the incumbent model of renting underwriting capital.

Amulet aims to build reserves that are controlled by the protocol with PCU, rather than renting capital from stakers as its primary underwriting source. Amulet believes this new model has the potential to scale sustainably.

Smart contract exploits, stablecoin de-pegs, slashing, and more to come (NFT, Metaverse, and wallet protection currently in development).