Automate your crypto investing in under 5 minutes, then brag about it to your friends. Collect the spare change from everyday purchases on your most-used cards and automatically invest it in Bitcoin.
For someone who knows a bit about trading bitcoin/stocks and traditional bank deposit interest, how does earning interest here actually work? Where do the 5% come from? What's my risk? (bitcoin price fluctuation? counter-party risk?)
@graup Hey Paul! Thanks for reaching out with a great question.
We have two product lines: one is an investment product for Bitcoin, the other (Donut Savings) is an interest bearing product which allows you to hold your savings in stablecoins to earn a higher interest rate than cash in a bank.
On Donut, we automatically convert your dollars to stablecoins and supply them to our partners at Compound (https://compound.finance/). In exchange for supplying your stablecoins to Compound’s platform, you receive a real-time interest rate on your assets. The interest rate varies constantly, but has been as high as 5% APY in in recent months.
On Compound, your stablecoins become part of a global decentralized lending pool. Borrowers take out loans from this pool and pay an interest rate, which goes directly to your pocket in real time. We built the app so you can literally watch your Donut Savings tick up second-by-second as it generates interest 24/7.
We wrote a blog piece that covers Donut Savings in depth, but happy to answer any more questions here too 🙂
👉 https://blog.donut.app/donut-sav...
@neelpopat Donut Savings is a wonderful and elegant solution, onboarding fiat into the DeFi economy. I am curious, is there some sort of deposit insurance a lá FDIC?
@daniel_de_sa Thanks Daniel that's exactly what Donut Savings does. FDIC insurance covers only USD on our platform and Donut Savings leverages the stablecoins. We supply these stablecoins to Compound which has it's own risks, but they mitigate this with extensive security practices and auditing. You can indeed read about their security here (https://compound.finance/docs/se...) and we are looking into ways to insure this even further!
@vincent_audoire1 Thanks for your support! We haven't forgotten about Europe and it's definitely something we have our sights set on soon. After all, we were born in Berlin 🇩🇪
Hey Product Hunt,
I speak for the whole team when I say that we’re super excited to bring Donut to Product Hunt. As a group of product nerds, we're proud to share what we’ve been building over the last year.
From day one, our goal with Donut was to create an investment app worth using. Our team believes that cryptocurrencies and DeFi are essential to our financial future and that everyone, regardless of crypto savvy, should have access to these asset classes. Some of the features we're most proud of include:
- Collect: round-up spare change from card purchases and automatically invest in Bitcoin
- Schedule: an easy, customizable tool to set recurring investments
- Donut Savings: earn real-time variable interest and grow your savings (leveraging Compound)
- Quick Buy: make a one off investment using a Debit card
Donut is currently available for iOS on the App Store in the US (excl. NY, WI, NJ and PA) and we hope you'll give it a try.
A big thank you to everyone who has tested and provided feedback on Donut. We’ve met many of you in person or more recently on Zoom and it’s been great to build Donut with you!
Let me know your thoughts and questions (or just say hi!) in the comments below. Neel and I will responding all day and look forward to hearing your thoughts on crypto and the future of investing.
Thanks,
Dan
@dan__spooner Damn, I skipped a few days of ProductHunt and missed the promo by a day 😥 The savings product looks great though, so still going to try it out!
Digital Dollars are not legal tender, are not backed by any government, and value balances on Donut are not subject to FDIC or Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) protections. Further, Donut is not a bank and does not offer checking accounts, savings accounts, or any fiduciary services.
Fool everyone once, then fool them twice.
This company pretends to be safe, but in reality your money is put into very risky assets. Despite all the sugar and honey the asset risk page tries to sell you. You will eventually wake up with huge losses, far more than the interest you ever earned, and frozen assets. The current state is frozen, and talking about their lender going bankrupt. Avoid this scam at all costs.
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