# Why Orbit

Orbit is being developed as a powerful consumer app designed to tackle many of DeFi's barriers to wider user adoption.\
Blockchain infrastructure has evolved tremendously, but many builders have still faced challenging reducing complexity and building applications that are simple enough and bring value to new users.\
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There is no doubting the potential for DeFis proposition, give people financial sovereignty and access to tools previous unavailable to them, but this needs to be made accessible and packaged in the right manner. \
This is what Orbit has set out to do, an intuitive savings application finding the best yields and bringing them to users in a way they can easily access and understand.

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### **Here are some of the core issues in the space faced that has inspired the development of the Orbit application:**

| Problems                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Orbit Solutions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p><strong>Poor user experiences in DeFi and choice overwhelm.</strong><br>Current user experience in DeFi still lacks heavily. There is a large choice overload of derivative assets, protocols are highly technical with difficult onboarding and not suited to new users.</p>                                                                                                  | <p><strong>Simple web2-like savings application, complexity and choice is abstracted.</strong><br>Orbit is built as an intuitive desktop and mobile application with simple onboarding, abstracting much of the jargon and complex elements from the front end. Choice overload is consolidated to avoid overwhelming users. </p>                                                                                                        |
| <p><strong>High Risk and Volatility a blocker for entry.</strong><br>Crypto has cemented a perception for high risk. It has a long history of protocol, CEX and bridge exploits, hacks and failures. </p><p></p><p>And a new user who has invested just for his assets to halve the following week is likely feeling burnt.</p>                                                   | <p><strong>Strong risk management and entry exposure to crypto assets without risking principle.</strong><br>Orbit offers a safer pathway for users to get initial exposure to crypto upside, users can deposit in the savings vault and stream their yield to accumulate assets. <br><br>Risk management is at the core of the protocol including risk scoring, self-custody, diversified allocations, trustless bridging and more.</p> |
| <p><strong>Fractured yield sources across chains and new stablecoins.</strong><br>Currently yield opportunities are fractured across 100s of chains and protocols. There are multiple variations of yield bearing stablecoins.</p><p><br>There is a lot of work involved in choosing the right place to park your assets and to maximise opportunity by manually rebalancing.</p> | <p><strong>Cross-chain aggregation of yields and yield-bearing stables into one easy location.</strong><br>Orbit consitently scans cross-chain protocols and stablecoins for the best yields and rebalances actively. This creates a one place to gain exposure to the best the market has to offer without needing to worry about rebalancing. </p>                                                                                     |
| <p><strong>Low quality, unreliable and unsustainable yields.</strong><br>User now care less for unrealistic inflationary yields, they want transparency on how yield is generated and are more interested in predictable and stable yields that will still be around in 12 months. </p>                                                                                           | <p><strong>Inclusion of stable RWA yields as a floor, hedging across various strategies and transparency of yield allocations.</strong><br>Focus is primarily on quality real yields and stable RWA yields. Smart allocation means there is more predictability in the bottom end of yields.<br>Transparency from live allocation dashboard should how the yield is being generated in real time.</p>                                    |

### **Additionally, many of the users we surveyed asked for the following in their ideal yield solution, so these were included in the design of Orbit:**

* No long lockups and low fees
* Transparency on how interest is generated.
* Simple and easy to use.
* Yield bearing so they can port their assets to be used more efficiently elsewhere in DeFi while still earning the yield.
* Secure with strong risk management (Risk modelling, management and allocation weighting)

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## **What Makes Orbit Stand Out?**&#x20;

* Orbit is built ontop of IBC infrastructure the only trustless infrastructure solution in the market, making it reliable and safer due to a smaller risk for exploits. With IBC v2 this will open Orbit to being fully cross-chain across EVM, Cosmos and Solana.
* Simple and intuitive application, built with new users in mind not just OGs, no extra complexity and jargon. (Reduce complexity, choice and overwhelm, introduction of account/chain abstraction)
* Asset streaming module enabling users to automically DCA their yield into their favourite bluechip assets.
* aUSDC yield-bearing receipt token (abstracted from front end for UX) but rather than relying on Liquidity pools for crosschain redemption, the deposit and withdrawal functions are made natively crosschain. (see xOrbit)&#x20;
* Strong risk management and modelling at the core of the aggregator. (GARCH, Monte carlo, liquidity buffer for withdrawals, CVAR, VAR, stability reserve)

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## **How Does Orbit Compare?**

<table><thead><tr><th width="106">Competitors </th><th>UX on user facing</th><th width="107.5">Non-custodial</th><th>Chains Aggregated </th><th>Trustless Bridging </th><th width="122">Asset yield streaming </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Yearn</strong> </td><td>Low - medium </td><td>Yes</td><td>Eth and some EVM L2s</td><td>no</td><td>no</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Superform</strong></td><td>Low (Mostly infra)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Eth and EVM L2s</td><td>no</td><td>no</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Veda</strong> </td><td>Low (mostly infra)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Eth and EVM L2s</td><td>no</td><td>no</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Lulo</strong> </td><td>Medium </td><td>Yes</td><td>Solana only</td><td>n/a</td><td>no</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CEX earn</strong> </td><td>High </td><td>No</td><td>N/A</td><td>n/a</td><td>no</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Orbit</strong></td><td>High </td><td>Yes</td><td>Eth EVM L2s, Cosmos and Sol</td><td>Yes through IBC </td><td>Yes</td></tr></tbody></table>


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