Ratehopper AI Agent Protocol Automates DeFi Strategies and Rewards Users
Ratehopper is a decentralized finance (DeFi) AI agent protocol that automates liquidity provider (LP) strategies and self-repaying loan positions. The protocol uses a user's deposited ETH as collateral to borrow USDC on Base, allowing the agent to manage LP positions and monitor market conditions without constant manual work.
The LP Agent is designed to handle Uniswap V3 liquidity positions, using a strategy that generated +22.6% in a recent backtest while ETH fell 46.6%. The model stayed deployed for 59% of the time and exited when conditions looked weak, resulting in a 6.5% max drawdown and 1.89 Sharpe ratio.
Ratehopper's main rewards flow is the Range Hunter campaign on Base DeFi, where participants mint self-repaying LP Agents to compete for ETH rewards. The faster an agent can use LP fees to reduce its debt, the better it performs on the leaderboard. Users can mint agents by staking 100,000 ROO tokens or paying 0.06 ETH.