Kuiper

Basics

• Based in:
• Started in / Announced on:
• Testnet release:
• Mainnet release: 1-2-2022
• Kuiper is a permissionless protocol for creating indices (indexes).

Audits & Exploits

• Bug bounty program can be found [insert here].
• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"The project has been audited three times by Code4rena (a project launched by Scott Lewis, one of Kuiper’s bootstrappers)"

Governance

Admin Keys

• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"Kuiper has no governance set up to upgrade the smart contracts. This could prove to be a problem down the line, the team acknowledges, but it also means the parameters will never suddenly drastically change. It also makes censorship of indices all but impossible.

It is set up with a few parameters that can be changed, but it allows no more than 20% in fees to be collected on its indices. That’s a hard cap that’s built in."

Token

Launch

• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"The team also has neither announced a governance token nor ruled one out. “We have explicitly made a decision to not discuss this topic to avoid the possibility of information leakage, because information that does not exist can not be leaked,” the post explains."

Technology

• Whitepaper or docs can be found [insert here].
• Code can be viewed [insert here].

Implementations

• Built on: Ethereum

How it works

• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"Kuiper aims to stand out in a few ways, but they can be summed up in two words: permissionless and uncensorable.

Anyone can propose a set of assets for an index, someone else can put it together and generate a token that represents the assets in that index, while others can see that it remains balanced."

Roadmap

• Can be found [Insert link here].

Competition

• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"Balancer and Set protocols allow users to create tokenized indexes.  Index Coop has made two different DeFi-focused indices. There’s a crypto index on the NASDAQ, TradeBlock offers several indices, Cryptex has its Total Crypto Market Cap token, Arch Finance has an Ethereum Web3 index token, among others."

Team, Funding and Partners

Team

• Full team can be found [here].
• Scott Lewis

Funding

• From The Defiant (1-2-2022):

"Kuiper was entirely bootstrapped with no outside venture investors involved. The team that bootstrapped Kuiper includes Lewis, of DeFi Pulse, Hyype and others; Will Price, an independent investor; Zak Cole and Nathan Blakely, both of Slingshot; Kevin Britz, of Coinbase; Aaron Beattie, of Whiteblock; and Nate Oden, of the Concourse Open Community. Once the protocol is live, “the organization will found itself,” Lewis said. The bootstrappers may or may not be part of it."

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