Colony Lab

Key points

• The platform boasts an impressive user base of over 12,583 active DeFi enthusiasts focused on Avalanche.
• Colony Lab's total user net worth, spanning across Avalanche and other chains, is estimated to exceed $150M.
• Remarkably, 80% of $CLY stakers have maintained unwavering loyalty, never executing any unstake actions since joining Colony Lab two years ago. This underscores a dedicated and robust community committed to supporting the project's long-term vision.
• Since its inception, the platform has conducted 170 airdrop sessions of Avalanche tokens to users, reaching a peak value of $23,984,371 (at ATH).
• At its launch at the peak of the bull market two years ago, Colony Lab commenced with $16 million in its treasury to fuel Avalanche’s growth, $AVAX priced at $100 then. Despite facing market downturns, Colony Lab showcased remarkable resilience. After 20+ investments, numerous airdrops, adept risk management, and navigating black-swan events, the Colony Treasury has not only weathered these challenges but has thrived, surging past $24 million today. Importantly, this treasury figure exclusively includes liquid assets, not accounting for their illiquid investments or airdrops.

Team

Elie Le Rest

CEO & Co-founder

Wessal ER

CMO & Co-founder

Aurélien Ynden

COO & Co-founder

Grzegorz Łyskawa

CTO

Investors

Avalanche Foundation

Shima Capital

GBV Capital

Hashkey Capital

Bixin Ventures

The Product

Colony Lab has 4 products: Early-stage Program with a Liquid Vesting solution, Validator Program, Colony Avalanche Index, Liquidity Provision Program.

These products provide users with exposure to various facets of Avalanche. By simply staking $CLY, users unlock Seed/Private sales investment opportunities in Avalanche early-stage projects and a stream of passive income, featuring:

• $AVAX rewards from our Validator Program
• Platform fees in the form of $CLY (Staking / Unstaking fees)
• Airdrops from early-stage projects in which Colony has invested
• $CAI fees generated by our Colony Avalanche Index
• Special rewards stemming from Colony’s Avalanche DeFi liquidity positions

Please find below more details about each product.

Early-stage Program with a Liquid Vesting Solution:

The Early-stage Program provides $CLY stakers with access to invest in early-stage Avalanche projects before IDOs through Seed and Private sales—an opportunity previously exclusive to VC firms, elite funds, and prominent angel investors.

Community members can explore early-stage Avalanche projects, upvote, comment, rate, and access project scores generated from thousands of community analyses. Invest in seed and private sales for the first time and trade your locked/vesting tokens freely, thanks to our Liquid Vesting solution.

Moreover, with Colony's Liquid Vesting, early project investors can securely trade their locked/vesting tokens on our AMM (Colony's DEX) without limitations. This marks a new era of flexibility and liquidity on the primary market that has been unlocked.

Validator Program:

This program allows users to earn hassle-free year-long $AVAX airdrops without the need to stake their own $AVAX, trade, or provide liquidity.

Colony's treasury includes an AVAX position, strategically utilized for running Avalanche nodes that enhance network security. By staking AVAX and operating these nodes, Colony gains AVAX rewards. A substantial majority of these rewards is directed back to the $CLY stakers community. In the forthcoming V2 of the Validator Program, it will also introduce liquid staking capabilities.

Colony Avalanche Index- $CAI:

$CAI is the benchmark index for the Avalanche ecosystem, tracking the performance of $AVAX and the top applications on Avalanche. Assets in the index are used productively to generate yield and improve returns.

(CLY stakers earn $CAI fees generated by our Colony Avalanche Index (Mint/Redeem etc)

Liquidity Provision Program:

This program allows users to earn special rewards from Colony's DeFi Avalanche liquidity positions.

As an Avalanche ecosystem accelerator, Colony is dedicated to bolstering the DeFi initiatives taking root on Avalanche. In alignment with this objective, the Liquidity Provision Program has been designed to offer protocols the liquidity boost required to amplify their TVL. By providing this essential liquidity, Colony not only supports the protocols but also generates yield from the lent liquidity. The resulting rewards are distributed among $CLY stakers.