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What is Yama?

Yama is a novel stablecoin that makes CDPs as efficient and powerful as possible. By having fast liquidations and incentivizing liquidity using interest from borrowers, the protocol allows for significant leverage (10x+), high liquidity, and more.

This protocol is initially deployed to Arbitrum.

In short, Yama has a smart contract called the PSM. This lets anyone swap between Yama and USDT without slippage or fees. Users can lend their USDT to the PSM to earn yield. Borrowers can borrow Yama against deposited collateral. They pay interest on the Yama they borrow, and the interest largely goes to the lenders.

The PSM is not a new concept, but no other stablecoin has used the interest from borrowers to directly incentivize liquidity. In other words, Yama is the first stablecoin to have "lenders," i.e. a two-sided marketplace. The protocol ignores DEXs like Curve and Balancer and simply prioritizes its own internal liquidity.

By doing this, Yama becomes very liquid with an extremely efficient lending market, while managing the risks. As a result, the design of Yama has the following benefits:

  • Very high leverage
  • Very high liquidity relative to market cap, possibly the highest
  • Zero-fee, zero-slippage swaps between Yama and USDT
  • Ability to scale omnichain in a more decentralized and scalable way than any other stablecoin
  • Increased resilience to USDC depegs due to the usage of USDT

Yama aims to be the ultimate stablecoin.