# MaiaDAO

> The unified liquidity layer

MaiaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that governs an omnichain liquidity ecosystem. It lets users swap tokens across blockchains, provide concentrated liquidity, and earn through yield strategies.

MaiaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that runs an omnichain liquidity ecosystem. It lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains from a single interface, provide concentrated liquidity, and earn emissions and trading fees. The ecosystem is built around the Hermes, Talos, and Maia protocols.

Hermes is an omnichain exchange that aggregates liquidity from connected chains and routes swaps through integrated bridges and aggregators. Holders burn the HERMES token to receive voting rights over gauge emissions, and voters receive trading fees and bribes from their chosen pools. Talos adds automated strategies that manage concentrated liquidity positions for liquidity providers.

The Maia protocol handles governance and yield aggregation. Staking the MAIA governance token gives holders a share of the DAO's accumulated voting power, boosted yield strategies, and revenue sharing. Traders, liquidity providers, and governance participants use the ecosystem.

- Type: DAO
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao

## Products

- [Hermes Protocol](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): Hermes Protocol is an omnichain decentralized exchange and liquidity marketplace. Users swap tokens across connected chains or provide concentrated liquidity to gauge pools, with liquidity from other chains aggregated through integrated bridges. Holders burn the HERMES token into bHERMES to receive gauge voting rights, boosted yields, and governance power, and gauge voters earn trading fees and bribes from their chosen pools. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [Talos](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): Talos is an automated liquidity management protocol for concentrated liquidity positions. Users deposit into strategy templates that rebalance and rerange positions when prices move beyond set thresholds, which removes manual position management. Vanilla positions hold direct liquidity shares and pay a protocol fee on swap income, while staked positions link to Hermes gauges to earn HERMES emissions. (Yield Aggregator, Live)
- [Maia](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): Maia is the governance and yield aggregation module of the MaiaDAO ecosystem. Users stake MAIA to receive vMAIA, which grants a share of the DAO's accumulated gauge voting power over Hermes emissions and passive earning of bribes without weekly voting. Boosted strategies pool the DAO's boost balance to amplify HERMES rewards for liquidity providers, with a fee portion retained to grow the backing of each vMAIA. (Yield Aggregator, Live)

## Assets

- [Hermes (HERMES)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): HERMES is the utility token of Hermes Protocol, a decentralized omnichain yield and liquidity marketplace on Arbitrum. It is used to acquire bHERMES by irreversibly burning tokens into a vault, granting gauge voting rights, yield boosts on staked liquidity positions, and on-chain governance power. The HERMES-to-bHERMES conversion rate increases with inflation, providing existing bHERMES holders with anti-dilution protection. (Utility)
- [Maia (MAIA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): MAIA is the governance token of the Maia ecosystem, deployed on Arbitrum. Users stake MAIA to receive vMAIA, which grants a proportional share of MaiaDAO's accumulated bHERMES voting power to direct Hermes gauge emissions and earn passive bribe rewards. The bHERMES backing per MAIA increases over time as the protocol accumulates more burnt HERMES, and MAIA withdrawals from the staking contract are restricted to the first Tuesday of each month. (Governance)
- [bHermes (BHERMES)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): bHERMES is a vault token representing permanently burned HERMES deposits in Hermes Protocol on Arbitrum. Holders claim three utility tokens, bHermes Gauges, bHermes Boost, and bHermes Votes, to vote on weekly gauge emissions, boost yields on staked liquidity positions, and participate in on-chain governance. The HERMES-to-bHERMES conversion ratio increases with inflation, ensuring existing holders are not diluted by new HERMES emissions. (Vault Tokens)
- [vMaia (VMAIA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/maiadao): vMAIA is the staked form of MAIA in the MaiaDAO ecosystem on Arbitrum, received when users deposit MAIA into the protocol's staking contract. It grants holders a proportional share of MaiaDAO's bHERMES voting power to direct Hermes Protocol gauge emissions and earn passive bribe rewards without resubmitting weekly votes. vMAIA is fungible and can be traded or used in liquidity pools, but the underlying MAIA can only be withdrawn on the first Tuesday of each month. (Governance)

## Links

- [Main](https://maiadao.io)
- [Documentation](https://docs.maiadao.io)
- [Governance](https://app.maiadao.io/governance)
- [Forum](https://common.xyz/maia-dao/community-home)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://docs.maiadao.io/protocols/Branding/branding)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/MaiaDAOEco)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Maia-DAO)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/maiadao)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/maiadao)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/HermesOmnichain)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/TalosOmnichain)

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