Tidal Finance primary sources — 2026-05-08

Official site

• https://tidal.finance/
  • Main site presents Tidal as a DeFi insurance platform and highlights broad protection categories for digital-asset holders.

Core docs

• https://docs.tidal.finance/
  • Docs root; the v2 introduction is the key overview for the current architecture.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/getting-started/whitepaper
  • Docs page linking the beta “Original Whitepaper” PDF.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/getting-started/network-roles/pool-manager.md
  • Best source for where underwriting discretion sits: pricing, collateral ratios, fees, withdrawal terms, emergency suspension, and payout proposals.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/getting-started/network-roles/liquidity-providers.md
  • Explains pool-specific collateral provision, withdrawal lockups, and proportional loss-sharing.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/getting-started/network-roles/committees.md
  • Short but important source showing that committees assess payout proposals and can influence pool governance.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/advanced-topics/untitled-2.md
  • Capital-management page framing reserve bootstrapping and solvency as explicit design problems.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/advanced-topics/untitled-2/dynamic-capital-adjustment.md
  • Adds mechanism detail on withdrawal pending periods and leverage adjustments.
• https://docs.tidal.finance/getting-started/v2-audit-report
  • Documents public Consensys and BlockSec audit links for v2.

Whitepaper

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p3DWYTaRxX_8hO_vVe8HT5RcUGOClqDc/view?usp=sharing
  • Beta “Original Whitepaper” linked from the docs; local copy saved as tidal-finance-whitepaper-beta.pdf.

Takeaway for corpus use

Tidal is especially useful because it decomposes decentralized insurance into a marketplace architecture:

1. manager-run underwriting pools,
2. pool-specific collateral and loss socialization,
3. committee-reviewed payout proposals, and
4. explicit reserve-bootstrapping / solvency controls.

That makes it a strong contrast class against Nexus Mutual’s shared-capital mutual, Bridge Mutual’s discretionary coverage marketplace, Cozy’s protocol-local safety modules, and InsurAce’s mutual-plus-investment-arm design.