UniLend
Crypto Overview
Understanding UniLend (UFT)
UniLend is a decentralized protocol that combines spot trading and money markets with lending and borrowing services. The platform aims to enable permissionless lending and borrowing for all ERC20 tokens. The UFT token serves as the protocol's governance token, allowing holders to participate in decision-making processes.
Intended Utility
The primary purpose of UFT is to facilitate governance of the UniLend protocol and provide utility within its ecosystem. Token holders can vote on protocol updates, parameter changes, and participate in the platform's development decisions. Additionally, UFT is used for paying platform fees and providing liquidity.
Actual Utility Assessment
Current on-chain data shows moderate activity in terms of governance participation and platform usage. The development team maintains regular updates to the protocol, with the most recent version (V2) introducing new features and improvements. The project has established partnerships with various blockchain projects and maintains active development on GitHub.
Token Distribution and Governance
The total supply of UFT is 100 million tokens. The distribution includes allocations for the team (15%), advisors (5%), and ecosystem development (20%), with vesting periods implemented to prevent immediate selling. The remaining tokens are distributed among public sale participants and liquidity provision.
Revenue Model Analysis
UniLend's revenue model primarily relies on protocol fees from lending and trading activities. While lending is typically a concern from an Islamic finance perspective, UniLend's implementation uses a profit-sharing model rather than traditional interest-based lending, where returns are generated from actual trading activities and protocol fees.
Crypto Impact
To assign a comfort level investing in UniLend from a halal perspective we need to determine whether it has a net positive or negative impact.
Towards this end, the table below is used to tally all the positive and negative considerations our members can think of related to UniLend.
If you don’t see something that should be listed, positive or negative, feel free to submit your own contribution using the button “Contribute”.
We will review your contribution for accuracy before publication.
Importantly, you can review listed contributions and vote on which one you think has the greatest impact, positive or negative.
You only have one vote per asset so use it wisely.
You can change your vote if you change your mind.