Protocol
Sovereign InfraFi: a two-sided credit market backed by Canadian assets.
DAI Compute connects depositors who supply capital with builders who finance Canadian energy and compute. Loans are originated against physical assets and cashflows; positions are tokenised, transparent, and sovereign by law.
The instrument stack
Three instruments, each with one job.
Algorithmic stablecoin. Stabilised against CAD over a blended, algorithmically-valued reserve. The stable entry point and unit of account.
- Type
- Algorithmic stablecoin
- Peg
- Tracks CAD (algorithmic)
- Reserve
- Blended, multi-method valued
- Yield
- None
Yield-bearing counterpart. Earns from the infrastructure loan book plus idle T-bills.
- Type
- Staked yield token
- Yield
- Loan interest + T-bills
- Redeem
- Northern Queue epochs
Governs collateral standards, LTV tiers, fees, and collateral-universe expansion.
- Type
- Governance token
- Staking
- sCROWN backstop
- Escrow
- veCROWN (considered)
Token names (CADS, sCADS, CROWN, sCROWN) are candidates pending live trademark and ticker validation.
CADS is not an aggregator token
Two designs, deliberately distinct.
CADS is DAI Compute’s own algorithmic stablecoin: stabilised against CAD by a blended, algorithmically-valued portfolio (fiat, other tokens, financial products, physical assets, hardware). It is not one-to-one fiat-collateralised. Transparency of reserve composition and valuation methods is the trust anchor.
Aggregator tokens
Collateralised, ratio self-chosen.
Qualifying aggregators issue collateralised, asset-backed tokens. DAI Compute requires genuine, provable collateralisation. It does not enforce a fixed collateral ratio; each aggregator sets its own (overcollateralised or fractional). See the aggregator standard.
The two-sided market
Capital funds loans. Loans build assets. Assets repay capital.
Demonstration · Two-sided market
CADS in · sCADS yield out
Depositors supply CADS to the loan book; loans fund Canadian energy and compute; assets generate revenue; interest accrues to sCADS. Enterprise buyers pay for sovereign compute into the same loop.
For Aggregators
DAI Compute is also the standard-setter for qualifying aggregators.
Independent energy-and-compute asset networks integrate under a public standard: collateralised tokens, sovereign jurisdiction, auditable consensus, and a clear integration interface.
The backing layer
Energy and compute, attested and collateralised.
Beneath the credit instruments sits an attestation layer. Smart-meter oracles prove that a financed asset generates verified Canadian renewable energy; proof-of-compute proves that a financed node provides verified Canadian compute capacity. These attestations determine loan eligibility, loan-to-value, and cashflow validation.
Solar-powered compute is a renewable resource: carbon-aware compute, backed by real generation.
The redemption primitive
The Northern Queue.
Because capital is deployed into illiquid, amortising infrastructure loans, sCADS redemptions run on fixed epochs. Depositors may bid, privately, for faster queue position; bids are redistributed to passive stakers. If no one bids, the queue defaults to first-in, first-out. The protocol never force-liquidates loans to satisfy withdrawals, which prevents disorderly exits and depeg spirals.
CROWN and stewardship
Built for Canadian law
DAI Compute is pre-launch. No token has been issued and no financial product is offered. Nothing here is an offer to sell or a solicitation, or investment advice. Live figures will be published only after regulatory clarity.
A full technical whitepaper is in preparation.
Covering the instrument stack, the on-chain / off-chain interplay, the Northern Queue, tokenomics, and risk. Register to be notified.
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