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cozy-finance

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Cozy Finance

  • Name: Cozy Finance
  • URL: https://www.cozy.finance/
  • Category: safety-module protocol / onchain loss-backstop infrastructure / decentralized insurance-adjacent
  • Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
  • Summary: Cozy Finance is protocol-local safety-module software, not a mutual and not a broad insurance marketplace. The live product is prefunded reserve modules where creators define covered losses, payout mechanics, caps, incentives, and withdrawal frictions. Useful reserve plumbing, not the branch anchor.
  • What it does:
    • Lets protocols create onchain Safety Modules that earmark capital to reimburse users after qualifying hacks, exploits, bad-debt events, or other configured losses
    • Allows module creators to define what counts as a qualifying loss, whether payouts are automated or DAO/discretionary, how shortfalls are allocated, and what payout caps apply
    • Attracts reserve capital from treasury funds, protocol fees, or third-party suppliers who deposit into modules and accept payout risk in exchange for rewards
    • Uses reward managers and stake-pool style incentives so deposit receipt tokens can earn additional emissions
    • Preserves an older, more generalized protection-market lineage where developers could encode trigger conditions and suppliers/borrowers could trade protection around defined onchain risks
  • Key claims:
    • The current site and CSM intro frame Cozy as a DeFi safety stack and describe the Cozy Safety Module as a way for teams to protect user capital from hacks and exploits
    • The user FAQ says module creators define qualifying losses, payout methods, payout-cap structure, and whether shortfalls are handled pro-rata or discretionarily, which means the critical governance surface is module configuration rather than a single global claims committee
    • The same FAQ notes that changes to the module are subject to a time delay and that suppliers face explicit payout risk plus withdrawal delays, making the reserve side of the market legible and protocol-local
    • The rewards-manager README shows that Cozy pairs protection reserves with separate incentive machinery, letting projects configure stake pools and reward pools so module depositors can be paid to supply backstop capital
    • The older v1 docs describe a more abstract protection-market model organized around liquidity pools plus trigger contracts, where borrowers paid for protected positions and qualifying losses cancelled debt; this provides useful historical context for how Cozy’s current product narrowed toward safety modules
    • Taken together, the materials show Cozy as insurance-adjacent infrastructure that packages coverage as configurable reserve software for protocols, not as a universal mutual with one shared balance sheet and one canonical claims process
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone whitepaper surfaced in this pass. The strongest primary materials were the current site, Cozy Safety Module docs, rewards-manager repo, and legacy v1 docs; see ../whitepapers/cozy-finance-primary-sources-2026-05-08.md.
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Control surface

  • Authority sits with module creators defining qualifying losses, payout handlers, payout caps, reserve funding, reward emissions, and withdrawal delays.

  • That is the useful cut in this branch: Cozy moves insurance discretion down into protocol-local reserve configuration instead of centering one mutual-wide claims body.

  • Read it as reserve-module software, not as the default insurance-market anchor.

  • Last reviewed: 2026-06-10 UTC

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