Company
Bumper
4 interviews on Crypto Coin Show
Bumper was a DeFi protocol that offered downside price protection for cryptocurrency assets.
Users chose a floor price and a term, paid a premium, and kept exposure to price gains. On the other side of the market, stablecoin depositors supplied liquidity and earned yield from the premiums. The protocol used the BUMP token for bonding, staking rewards and governance. It first launched on Ethereum and later moved to Arbitrum. It was developed by INDX Capital and led by CEO Jonathan DeCarteret, with Gareth Ward as COO. The protocol closed on 10 December 2025, and its application interface was retired.
31:44Latest interview · Sep 7, 2023How Bumper is protecting crypto assets from price dropsAshton Addison speaks with Gareth Ward, Co-Founder and COO of Bumper on the launch of their protocol, How to protect your ETH from downside without triggering a stop-loss, How they’re building DeFi 3.0, and more!Watch the episode →People we’ve interviewed
About Bumper
- Type
- DeFi price protection protocol
- Structure
- Protocol
- Status
- closed
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
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Funding and backers
As stated in Crypto Coin Show interviews and coverage. This is not a complete funding history.
What Bumper told us
6 moments · 4 interviewsIn their own words on Crypto Coin Show. Tap Watch to jump to that exact moment.
“By using the aggregate using pooling the very assets of DeFi we were able to make it far more efficient and serve the market as the market requires.”
GWGareth WardCo-Founder and COO, Bumper · Sep 2023▶Watch at 23:58- GWGareth Ward · Bumper offers loss protection alternative to stop loss orders
“The agent-based modeling where we've had some really good initial results from that showing that against the European options desk we would be 10 to 70 percent cheaper than an options.”
▶Watch at 12:31 - GWGareth Ward · Gareth Ward on Bumper's DeFi protocol for hedging risk
“We thought you know forget a million dollars in the first 24 hours I think that'll be a win and when we went live it was just moving so fast it was all of a sudden million and then four million and that was in five minutes.”
▶Watch at 6:36“The biggest thing with tokens and something that I think few projects actually really get is that you need to have to think about whether you actually need a token like we're in crypto it sounds crazy do you need a coin do you need a token.”
▶Watch at 11:56 
JDJonathan DeCarteret · Jonathan DeCarteret on Bumper's DeFi asset protection“You can be protected as little as three percent per annum so just think about that is thirty thousand dollars a year to protect a million dollars worth of bitcoin.”
▶Watch at 5:46“We had an institutional rounds that we conducted back in march we were hoping to raise half a million dollars we raised 11.3 million in a month we declined a further 32 million dollars worth of investment.”
▶Watch at 12:49
Products
- BUMP tokenNative token used in the protocol, algorithmically tied to total value locked
- Bumper AppUser interface for accessing protection policies and liquidity provision
Timeline
- Public launch of Bumper application protocol CCS interview, Sep 2023
- Liquidity provider program launched with 11.7 million USDC locked within first hours CCS interview, Aug 2021
- Bumper version 1a launched allowing USDC deposits and BUMP token purchases CCS interview, Jun 2021
- First interview on Crypto Coin Show Watch
- Raised $11.3M (Institutional round) CCS interview, Jun 2021, 12:49
Market
Market data: CoinGecko. Full BUMP price page →
Interviews with Bumper
20:42Bumper offers loss protection alternative to stop loss ordersFeb 11, 2022 · Gareth Ward, Bumper
18:43Gareth Ward on Bumper's DeFi protocol for hedging riskAug 11, 2021 · Gareth Ward, Bumper
19:02Jonathan DeCarteret on Bumper's DeFi asset protectionJun 11, 2021 · Jonathan DeCarteret, BumperSimilar companies on Crypto Coin Show
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