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# Home

The big picture about the protocol

## Origins of the protocol

The protocol's underlying mechanism dynamically adjusts $CREAM's supply, pushing its price up or down relative to the price of $AVAX.

Inspired by the original idea behind Tomb.Finance as well as its predecessors (bDollar and soup), IceCream Finance is a multi-token protocol which consists of the following three tokens:

* Cream ($CREAM).
*  Cream Shares ($CSHARE)
* Cream Bonds ($CBOND).

## What differentiates $CREAM from other algorithmic tokens?

Unlike previous algorithmic tokens, $CREAM is not pegged to a stable coin— it is instead pegged to $AVAX the network token of Avalanche. \
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Why is this?\
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We believe in the potential of the Avalanche Network, and have chosen to align its mission to both provide value to and derive value from $AVAX's future growth. As a result our pegged token $CREAM can benefit from the appreciation of the network token.

One of the primary shortcomings of past algorithmic tokens has been a lack of use cases, leaving no good reason for somebody to want to use or hold them. In order to successfully maintain the peg in the long-run, we plan to maintain a focus on innovation by rolling out the implementation of arbitrage boughts as well as using revenue from yield optimization to buy back and burn $CREAM