# Mellow Finance

> Infrastructure for LRTs. Permissionless. Flexible. Modular.

DeFi platform for liquid restaking, offering customizable LRTs and advanced yield strategies for institutions and sophisticated users.

Mellow Finance is a DeFi protocol enabling the creation and management of Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) with diverse risk-yield profiles. It offers permissionless LRT creation, customizable vaults, and integration with major DeFi protocols. The platform provides infrastructure for institutions and sophisticated risk curators to issue LRTs and manage advanced DeFi strategies. Mellow Finance aims to enhance efficiency in liquid staking and restaking, targeting institutional investors and experienced DeFi users seeking optimized yield strategies.

- Type: Project
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-06-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/Mellow_Finance

## Products

- [Mellow LRT Protocol](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Mellow_Finance): A liquid restaking primitive that allows for permissionless creation of modular LRTs (Liquid Restaking Tokens). It offers a series of vault smart contracts tailored to different risk profiles, managed by LRT curators. (Liquid Staking, Live)
- [Mellow ALM](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Mellow_Finance): Mellow ALM (Automatic Liquidity Management) focuses on creating tools that increase DeFi ecosystem efficiency. The key focus is developing an active liquidity management system called Mellow Permissionless Vaults. (Liquid Staking, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://mellow.finance)
- [Blog](https://mellowprotocol.substack.com/p/enter-modular-lrts-mellow-protocol)
- [Documentation](https://docs.mellow.finance)
- [Whitepaper](https://mellow.finance/whitepaper.pdf)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/mellowprotocol)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/mellow)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/mellowalm)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/mellow-finance)

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