Firelight Protocol Aims to Insure DeFi
Firelight launched as a large-scale DeFi insurance protocol backed by Kraken, Centaur, and Coinbase. It uses non-DeFi assets and AI-driven risk assessment to provide coverage to protocols like Aave.
Firelight aims to make DeFi insurance a core component, rather than an afterthought, by allowing users to insure specific events, markets, assets, and even transactions. This granular approach includes clear terms, pricing, and payout logic, all executed on-chain. The protocol uses assets like XRP, XLM, and potentially Bitcoin, which have large market caps and lower correlations to DeFi protocols, as collateral. By staking XRP through Flare's FAssets bridging system, users receive FXRP, which can be staked to obtain stXRP, a liquid ERC-20 token. Firelight's cover engine uses protocol-specific technical risk models, chain-agnostic economic risk signals, and historical data to provide AI-driven risk assessment. This data-driven approach aims to offer institutional-grade risk infrastructure that DeFi currently lacks. The long-term vision involves making insurance as programmable as other DeFi elements. Firelight focuses on high-TVL, systemically important DeFi protocols to ensure it credibly covers the top of the DeFi stack.
