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At its heart, Bumper is a revolutionary risk management tool which provides price protection for crypto assets from downside volatility and market crashes. Although Bumper shares some similarities with Stop Losses, Options Desk and insurance policies, there are significant differences in Bumper’s architecture, functionality and approach to managing risk.

Bumper is a pooled risk market which leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimise protocol efficiency. On one side, users hedge crypto assets by choosing a term and locking in a floor price. Through intelligent rebalancing mechanisms the protocol ensures the chosen minimum value is preserved at the end of the term. On the other side of the market, users deposit stablecoin liquidity to balance the protocol and earn a yield derived from streamia (dynamic premia) paid by protection takers.

Simplified illustration of the Bumper protocol.


This opens up a range of opportunities for users to gain protection from downside price movement, beat the market through accumulation trading strategies and earning stablecoin yield on their deposits.

Artificial Intelligence Power

Bumper has been utilising AI in the research, design and development of the core protocol mechanics for the past 2 years.

Our Agent-Based Model (ABM) was used in conjunction with AI techniques to create more complex and adaptive simulations. Agents in the ABM system used machine learning algorithms to learn and adapt their behaviour based on past actions, and market changes. The integration of ABM with AI methods led to more sophisticated modelling and simulation capabilities for Bumper.

AI is used throughout the code and smart contract development to iteratively work through code optimisation and protocol performance.

Of most significance Bumper uses a pre-trained Large Language Model to ingest vast amounts of financial text data and broadly categorise sentiment. This critical tool uses advanced classification techniques to identify distinct financial vocabulary. Equipped with attention mechanisms and transformer-based structures, the LLM is able to discern market sentiment and investor behaviour and signal future market trends.

These signals are then fed into premium calculations alongside Price Risk Factor (PRF), Liquidity Risk Factor (LRF)and Risk Rating of Positions (RRP). This frontier tech optimises Bumper’s innovative streamia model and is world-first in connecting LLM technology with smart contracts to offer price protection. Since it has become such a narrative in 2024, we’ve doubled down on efforts to become the first AI-powered Risk Management platform in DeFi.

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