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# Medusa Overview

<mark style="color:yellow;">**Medusa Contract : 0xE97CBB39487a4B06D9D1dd7F17f7fBBda4c2b9c4**</mark>\
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**Here at Medusa Finance, we want to build a safe, long-term investment opportunity for  investors out there. Medusa delivers a decentralized financial asset that rewards users with a sustainable fixed interest rate model using unique MAP protocol.**

#### <mark style="color:yellow;">The Medusa Auto-Staking Protocol</mark> (MAP) is a new financial protocol that makes staking easier, more efficient and awards $MEDUSA token holders the highest stable returns in crypto.

MAP gives the Medusa token automatic staking and compounding features, and the highest Fixed APY in the market at **383,025.80%** for the first 12 months.

Medusa is a company focused on DeFi innovation that creates benefits and value for Medusa token holders. Our MAP protocol that is used within the Medusa token grants exceptional benefits for holders of $MEDUSA:

* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Low Risk with the Risk Free Fund (RFF)**</mark> - 5% of all trading fees are stored in the Medusa Risk Free Fund which helps sustain and back the staking rewards by maintaining price stability and greatly reducing downside risk.
* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Easy and Safe Staking**</mark>**&#x20;-** The Medusa token always stays in your wallet so it doesn’t need to be put into the hands of a 3rd party or centralized authority. All you need to do is buy & hold as you automatically receive rewards in your own wallet so there’s no more complicated staking processes at all.
* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Interest Yield with Automatic Payments**</mark>**&#x20;-** You need not be worry about having to re-stake your tokens. Interest yield is paid automatically and compounded in your own wallet, guaranteeing you will never miss a payment.
* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Highest Fixed APY**</mark>**&#x20;-** Medusa pays out at 383,025.80% in the first 12 months which rivals anything in the DeFi arena to date. After the first 12 months the interest rate drops over a predefined Long-term Interest Cycle period.
* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Rapid Interest Payments**</mark>**&#x20;-** The Medusa Finance pays every Medusa Token holder each and every 15 minutes or 96 times each day, making it the fastest auto-compounding protocol in crypto.
* <mark style="color:yellow;">**Auto Token Burn**</mark>**&#x20;-** One of the exciting features of the Medusa Finance is an automatic token burn system named <mark style="color:red;">**“The Venom Pit”**</mark> which prevents circulating supply getting out of hand and becoming unmanageable. The Venom Pit burns 2.5% out of all Medusa Token market sales and is burned in the same individual transaction.

The MAP uses a complex set of factors to support its price and the rebase rewards. It includes the <mark style="color:yellow;">**Risk Free Fund (RFF)**</mark> which serves as an insurance fund to achieve price stability and long-term sustainability of the Medusa Protocol by maintaining a consistent <mark style="color:red;">**0.02355% rebase rate**</mark> paid to all $MEDUSA token holders <mark style="color:green;">**every 15 minutes**</mark>.

The Medusa development team has coordinated all of these elements together so they work seamlessly behind the scenes. The result is a simple and elegant staking and rewards system for $MEDUSA holders.