# Platform Overview

## Meet Our 4 Core Products:

1. **Orbital - Yield Optimizer**: Parallax employs a sophisticated auto-compounding mechanism to boost returns for both liquidity provider (LP) tokens and stablecoins.
2. **Andromeda - Multivariant Yield**: Select from our top-tier Arbitrum vaults or opt for Degen vaults, or even become a strategist and create your own vaults.
3. **Supernova - Powering LSDfi**: Benefit from recursive yields on leveraged liquid staking derivatives by borrowing against your assets.
4. **Black Hole - Liquidity Marketplace**: Our Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) marketplace enables users to establish Olympus-like bond markets for any Arbitrum token pair.

## Parallax is designed to cater to:

1. **Individuals**: Benefit from optimized yield earnings in our thoroughly audited vaults.
2. **DAOs**: Access a comprehensive set of tools and functionalities for effective treasury management with Parallax.
3. **Strategists**: Join as a strategist to receive a percentage of vault performance fees as earnings.

## Who Built Parallax?

We're an anon team of developers from several countries. We've been working on Parallax since Q4 2022. We strive to build a community first approach to the product. No VCs, no institutions. We've built it from the ground up for maximum security and community involvement. 

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**Disclaimer:** Interacting with Parallax Finance holds no promise of financial benefit. Users are cautioned to use our products responsibly, and only invest the amount they can afford to lose. Please only participate in Parallax Finance to the extent allowed by your jurisdiction. Parallax Finance makes no guarantee to compensate any of our users in the event of vulnerabilities, hacking, or other unanticipated catastrophic occurrences.
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