Buttonwood
  • Buttonwood Basics
    • Introduction to Buttonwood
    • First Principles
    • FAQ
    • DeFi for Beginners
  • Learn
    • Glossary
    • Elastic Supply Assets
      • ButtonToken
      • UnbuttonToken
    • Tranche
      • Deposit Flow
      • Redemption Flow
    • ButtonZero
      • System Design
      • Lending
      • Borrowing
    • ButtonAuctions
    • ButtonSwap
      • Core Concepts
      • Pool Interactions
  • User Guides
    • ButtonSwap User Guide
      • Create a Pool
      • Swap
      • Add Liquidity
      • Remove Liquidity
    • ButtonZero User Guide
      • Primer
      • Borrow (Sell & Ask)
      • Lend (Buy & Bid)
      • Redemption
    • ButtonAuctions User Guide
      • Join an Auction
        • Redemptions
      • Create an Auction
      • Settle an Auction
      • Note on Rebasing Assets
    • Provide Liquidity on Uniswap
    • Mint Tranches
      • Mint Tranches via Contract
        • Minting AMPL Tranches
        • Minting ETH Tranches
        • Minting WBTC Tranches
        • Bond List
  • Developers
    • Deployed Contracts
      • Ethereum Mainnet
      • Görli Testnet
      • Kovan Testnet
      • Avalanche C-Chain
      • Base Mainnet
      • Arbitrum
      • Optimism
    • Tranche
      • Tranche
      • TrancheFactory
      • Bond
      • BondFactory
      • UniV3LoanRouter
    • Button Wrappers
      • ButtonToken
      • UnbuttonToken
      • ButtonTokenFactory
      • UnbuttonTokenFactory
    • Audits
    • Bug Bounty
  • Additional Resources
    • Apps
    • Github
    • Discord
    • Twitter
    • Website
    • ButtonZero
    • Zero Whitepaper
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  1. Buttonwood Basics

Introduction to Buttonwood

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What is Buttonwood?

Buttonwood is a collection of DeFi primitives for building powerful decentralized financial instruments. One of Buttonwood's insights is that everything in finance is some form of a tranche. The ButtonTranche contracts serve as a foundation for marketplaces such as liquidation-free debt, convertible bonds, and options, and assets like fiat-free stablecoins.

The Buttonwood Foundation was formed on the thesis that in order to build the future of finance (DeFi) we have to recognize learnings from the past and start from first principles. Besides AMMs (Uniswap), and margin lending (Aave), DeFi is still missing large parts of the financial stack.

Buttonwood’s permissionless core contracts were designed to be easily composable — developers need only to build routers and a UI.

Apps:

button.finance