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Enso mounting ‘vampire attack’ on six crypto index projects

The Enso team hopes to capture over a billion dollars in total value locked (TVL) from the stunt, but users must remain staked for at least 3 weeks to see any benefit.

Metaverse-based social trading platform Enso Finance has announced its plans to launch its platform by performing a “vampire attack” on six major crypto index projects on Dec. 9.

A vampire attack is when a platform entices users and liquidity from a competing platform by offering higher incentives for use. In September 2020, SushiSwap performed a vampire attack that led to about $1.5 billion moving from Uniswap to SushiSwap.

The Enso team tweeted on Dec. 7 that the attack would focus on Index Coop, Tokensets, PieDAO, dHEDGE, Powerpool, and Indexed. Each of these protocols offer crypto index products which aggregate the performance of a basket of assets in a particular niche, such as DeFi coins or NFT game tokens. Users will have to deposit index tokens from those indexes onto Enso’s platform to earn an array of incentives. It aims to attract up to $1.05 billion in total value locked (TVL).

Enso is a social trading platform that will allow individuals, communities, or decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) to create trading strategies or yield farm strategies. They will then be able to share their keys to a successful strategy on the platform.

Enso will reimburse gas fees, give away ENSO governance tokens, and airdrop Enso nonfungible tokens (NFT) to early adopters.

After users keep their migrated tokens staked on Enso for 3 weeks, Enso will burn the original tokens and issue wrapped versions of that index’s underlying assets.

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Enso co-founder Connor Howe was optimistic about the stunt’s potential.

“Liquidity is the fuel that powers DeFi and it is the essence of Enso’s platform. We want to show the community just how innovative we are, and there’s no better way of doing so than incentivizing existing users to migrate.”

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Social Trading Platform Enso Finance Raises $5M in Funding Round 

Soon-to-launch social trading platform Enso Finance gets a cash injection. 

Enso Finance Closes Funding Round 

Enso Finance has closed a $5 million funding round. Polychain and Dfinity Beacon Fund led the investment, while other participants included Multicoin Capital, P2P Capital, Spartan Group, Zola Global, and The LAO. 

Enso Finance is a new DeFi tool that allows anyone to create permissionless trading strategies. Enso will give traders access to native social trading strategies, which can be invested in directly or through the creator’s token. These tokens can be used for activities such as yield farming, liquidity mining, arbitrage, and flash swaps. Traders can also invest in strategies through multi-signature syndicates or decentralized autonomous organizations. 

Enso Finance is one of many projects that leverages the composability of DeFi. Composability refers to the interoperability of DeFi apps. With DeFi largely running on Ethereum today, the leading apps can be used interchangeably in endless combinations, which is why they’re often described as “money legos.” 

Connor Howe, the co-founder of Enso, explained that Enso will make DeFi’s composability more accessible. He said: 

“Composability is one of the unique aspects that makes DeFi magical. With Enso, we’re lowering the barrier to capturing composability by gathering all of the major decentralized finance platforms and making it simple to follow the best traders who use these platforms, or create novel strategies between them.”

Spencer Applebaum, an investor at Multicoin Capital, added that Enso’s ease of use is one of its key strengths over other platforms. He said: 

“While other platforms focus on either active or curated passive strategies, Enso is fully customizable and enables anyone to become a fund manager with the click of a button.”

Enso will initially launch on Ethereum mainnet, though it has also factored plans for multi-chain support, according to the press release. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this feature owned ETH and several other cryptocurrencies. 

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