Vesper

An onchain reserve built around the market close.

Last light ยท 50:00 to close

How it works.

Four moves, one loop. Equities back the token, staking shares in what the close captures, and the hook prices the close.

  1. Tokenized equities back it.

    Coinbase stocks on Base, and USDC, sit in the reserve. Nothing is minted past what they are worth.

    $-

    in the reserve

  2. Stake VSPR.

    One for one into sVSPR. The balance grows in place, three cycles a day.

    -

    sVSPR staked

  3. LAST LIGHT prices the close.

    The pool fee climbs through the final hour of the session. Thin hours are expensive hours.

    58.33

    bps right now

  4. Captured at the close.

    Half of every fee goes to the reserve. Each cycle pays out only what it captured, capped by backing.

    -

    VSPR paid to stakers

The ramp.

One fee schedule, read from the clock, never from an oracle. From T-60 to the bell the fee climbs from 30 to 200 basis points. Right now, last light, a swap pays 58.33 bps.

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Open
09:30 to 15:00 ET
30 bps
Last light
15:00 to 16:00 ET
30 to 200 bps, linear
After the close, closed, pre-market
everything else
100 bps

fee = 30 + 170 x (3600 - secondsToClose) / 3600. Applied only when it has moved 5 bps from the last applied fee. Half of it is captured for the reserve.

The reserve.

Stocks provide the backing. Liquidity generates the revenue. Reserves above what VSPR needs are the only thing a cycle can pay from.

-backing per VSPR, USD
  • Not yet deployed on Base. The rings fill on deployment.
Backing above supply
$-
awaiting deployment
Cycles settled
-
permissionless, anyone may settle
Last cycle paid
-
VSPR, to stakers

Everything settles at the close.

Enter the reserve