Curator AMA — Revelo Intel
In this AMA we’re joined by Kirk, the Business Development Lead at Revelo Intel. We dive deep into what Revelo is, their product offering, their value-add on Origin as Curators, and more. The full AMA can be found here.
Revelo Intel Resources:
What does Revelo Intel do?
Revelo Intel serves two main groups: consumers and protocols. For consumers, we provide very efficient due diligence tools, helping investors understand the risks, product functionalities, and business models behind protocols. We've been fortunate to accumulate nearly 9,000 sophisticated DeFi investors since early 2023. On the protocol side, we help businesses reach their ideal users through curated educational content, effectively marketing themselves and getting their brand exposed to our user base.
What products and services does Revelo Intel offer?
Our flagship product is the Project Breakdown, which consolidates all available information about a protocol into an easily digestible format, kind of like a public documentation pumped full of steroids. We also produce narrative-driven pieces that discuss industry trends and opportunities. Our platform offers both free and paid memberships. Free users get access to high-quality reports, while paid members get more intimate access to our team, including direct interaction with the analysts who wrote the reports and access to our NFT-gated venture syndicate, Revelo Ventures.
What are the benefits of the paid memberships at Revelo Intel?
Paid members get direct access to our analysts through our Discord, where they can ask questions about specific protocols or reports. They also gain access to Revelo Ventures, our NFT-gated venture syndicate, which provides deal flow and investment opportunities at the same terms and valuations as Revelo Intel itself.
What is your role as a curator for Origin?
As curators, we focus on five key elements:
- Transparency: Clearly explaining how protocols work, without fluff pieces to ensure transparency and honesty.
- Economic Opportunity: Assessing the economic potential and sustainability of the protocol, including where fees and yields come from.
- Tokenomics: Outlining token supply, emissions, vesting schedules, and other relevant details.
- Team Assessment: Evaluating the team’s track record, whether doxxed, semi-doxxed, or anonymous, and ensuring credibility.
- Risk Assessment: Highlighting economic and technical risks, including audit details and any associated peg risks for stablecoins or synthetic assets.
Can you talk about the first launch partner for Axis Origin?
Our first launch partner is Aurelius Finance, previously known as the Byte Masons, who are the team behind Reaper Farm. Aurelius combines a CDP platform like Liquity with an Aave V2 lending market, allowing users to deposit assets and get a stablecoin called AUSD. Their rehypothecation engine automatically lends out the collateral to earn yield, making the loans essentially interest-free.
How did Revelo Intel get in touch with Aurelius Finance and Axis?
Our relationship with the Aurelius team goes way back to when they were still known as the Byte Masons. We were already familiar with their work on Reaper Farm, so when we heard they were coming through Origin for the TGE, it seemed like a perfect fit for us to test out the platform with a project we knew well.
Why is Mantle a good fit for Aurelius and Origin?
Mantle network is ideal for Origin's sealed bid batch auction system due to its suitability for L2 environments where encryption and decryption of bids can be costly. This partnership will allow both Aurelius and Origin to leverage the benefits of the L2 ecosystem effectively.
Can you explain how fees work on Origin?
On Origin, curator fees and referral fees are aligned with the project being launched. Curators are paid in the project tokens they are launching, aligning their incentives with the project's success. Referral links can be configured to act as decentralized marketing funnels, providing exposure when the project goes live.