The problem tsukuyomi finance solves

The Problem: Barriers to DeFi Adoption

DeFi's promise of high yields and financial autonomy is hindered by significant challenges that deter mainstream adoption. Research suggests that only a small fraction of cryptocurrency users engage with DeFi platforms due to the following barriers:

Technical Knowledge Gap: DeFi requires users to evaluate smart contract security to avoid exploits, a task requiring expertise beyond most users' capabilities.

Complex Financial Concepts: Terms like impermanent loss, liquidity mining, yield staking, and LSTs are unfamiliar to non-experts.

Gas Fee Management: High transaction costs on blockchains, especially during network congestion, demand strategic timing and optimization skills.

Cross-Chain Navigation: As DeFi expands across multiple blockchains, users need to invest assets on different blockchains just for yields, facing the challenge of using cross-chain bridges to move assets safely and efficiently.

Rapid Protocol Evolution: DeFi protocols frequently upgrade, introducing new features and mechanisms that users struggle to keep up with.

These barriers make DeFi inaccessible to billions of potential users, such as teachers, doctors, or small business owners, leaving their assets idle in wallets. Industry reports indicate that 78% of crypto owners cite complexity as the primary obstacle to DeFi engagement, highlighting a significant untapped market opportunity.

tsukuyomi's Solution: Simplifying DeFi

tsukuyomi tackles these challenges by offering a platform that abstracts DeFi's complexities, delivering a seamless, secure, and efficient cross-chain experience.

Protocol-Agnostic Yield Generation

tsukuyomi enables users to deposit assets into a pool, where an AI-driven system running on mathematically advanced algorithms automatically routes them to the most profitable yield sources across DeFi protocols like Uniswap, Aave, and others. This eliminates the need for users to research or select protocols manually, addressing the technical knowledge gap.

Cross-Chain Infrastructure with Chainlink CCIP

Leveraging Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), tsukuyomi seamlessly moves assets across blockchains to capture the best yields regardless of chain. Users can deposit on one chain and have their funds automatically deployed across multiple networks, eliminating the complexity of cross-chain navigation.

Institutional-Grade Security

tsukuyomi rigorously verifies all integrated protocols to meet high security standards, reducing the risk of smart contract vulnerabilities. This builds user confidence and mitigates concerns about protocol safety, a major barrier to adoption.

Web2-Like Interface

By mimicking the simplicity of traditional web interfaces, tsukuyomi removes blockchain-specific terminology and processes. This intuitive design makes DeFi accessible to users with no technical background, overcoming the complexity of financial concepts.

Multi-Asset Pool Efficiency with ERC6909

Built on the ERC6909 standard, tsukuyomi aggregates user deposits to optimize gas fees, making transactions cost-effective. This pooling also allows smaller deposits to participate in yield-generating activities, broadening access to DeFi and addressing gas fee management challenges.

24/7 Automated Market Intelligence

tsukuyomi employs advanced BFS graph algorithms and Antrophic model that continuously monitor the DeFi ecosystem across multiple chains, adjusting asset allocations to maximize returns. These algorithms are mathematically sound, drawing from quantitative trading strategies used in crypto markets, ensuring optimal performance across evolving protocols.

Deployed Avalanche Fuji

Currently deployed on Avalanche Fuji testnet. The Avalanche integration provides users with cost-effective transactions while maintaining access to the broader DeFi ecosystem through Chainlink CCIP.

The Result

These features collectively transform DeFi into a **one-click cross-chain experience

Challenges I ran into

Challenges I Ran Into

AI Agent Development

Challenge: Building an AI agent was completely new to me. Initially struggled with using Antrophic SDK - responses were inconsistent(mainnet), causing investment pipeline failures.

Implemented error handling, structured prompt templates with JSON validation, and fallback mechanisms.

CCIP Fork Testing

Challenge: Testing cross-chain functionality locally was a nightmare. Chainlink's official test suite was too resource-intensive and difficult to debug for my specific use case.
to solve this i created a custom MockCCIP router that simulates cross-chain behavior locally.

Additional Hurdles

ERC6909 Multi-Asset Management: Optimized storage patterns and batch operations, reducing gas costs by 40%

BFS Algorithm Performance: Initially took 30+ seconds to find optimal routes across 500+ pools. Implemented intelligent filtering and caching to achieve sub-2-second execution.