Cork Protocol primary sources — 2026-05-08
Official site / docs
- https://www.cork.tech/
- Official homepage positioning Cork as a programmable risk layer for onchain assets such as RWAs, vault tokens, and yield-bearing stablecoins.
- https://docs.cork.tech/
- Official docs entrypoint summarizing the core primitive and major use cases.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/docs/master/README.md
- Docs repo overview page explaining the pool design, the
cPT/cSTsplit, and the main use cases.
- Docs repo overview page explaining the pool design, the
Core mechanism docs
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/docs/master/core-concepts/cork-pool.md
- Canonical explanation of the Cork Pool, including the collateral/reference asset pair, the dual-token mint, the exercise equation, and the exchange-rate logic.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/docs/master/core-concepts/swap-token.md
- Defines
cSTas the tokenized risk instrument and explains its role in hedging duration, illiquidity, credit, and price-deviation risk.
- Defines
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/docs/master/core-concepts/target-assets-and-use-cases.md
- Shows the intended downstream use cases: vault liquidity buffers, RWA looping, lending-market integration, PT-like fixed-rate hedging, and generalized asset hedging.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/docs/master/faq/frequently-asked-questions.md
- Useful for operational details such as OTC limit-order pricing, premium framing, exchange-rate handling, and who the protocol is designed for.
Code / architecture
- https://github.com/Cork-Technology
- Official GitHub organization.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cork-Technology/phoenix/main/README.md
- Protocol/codebase README documenting the singleton
CorkPoolManager, lifecycle operations, and architecture/control components includingDefaultCorkController,WhitelistManager, and the oracle path.
- Protocol/codebase README documenting the singleton
Launch / positioning
- https://www.cork.tech/blog/beta
- Official launch post for the beta, describing the Depeg Swap / tokenized-risk framing.
Takeaway for corpus use
Cork is valuable because it isolates a different mechanism from most DeFi insurance projects:
- not discretionary claims governance,
- not a shared-capital mutual,
- not only protocol-local safety modules,
- but a paired-token swap primitive that converts depeg, duration, illiquidity, and some credit risk into a tradable redemption right.
That makes it a strong comparison class for Risk Harbor-style parametric protection, Amulet-style embedded protection, Pendle-style fixed-rate claims, and any vault/RWA system that wants liquidity before actual redemption is available.