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Welcome to Indigo Protocol Education

Learn about Indigo Protocol — a Cardano-based platform for synthetic assets (iAssets) such as iUSD, iBTC, and iETH. This site offers structured learning for everyone from first-time users to developers building on Indigo.

Choose your path

If you are… Start here
New to Indigo or DeFi Introduction to Cardano & DeFiWhat is a Synthetic Asset?Getting Started with Indigo
Developer Indigo ArchitecturePlutus & eUTxO PrimerIndigo TypeScript SDK
AI / MCP users Indigo Agents & AISetup MCP and Repos & SDK
Researcher / advanced Advanced Contract Interaction, Staking & Governance, and protocol deep dives

What you'll learn

  • Novice: What synthetic assets and CDPs are, how to use the Indigo app, mint iUSD, and manage positions. You’ll understand basic risks (e.g. liquidation) and best practices.
  • Developer: How Indigo’s contracts and eUTxO model work, how to use the TypeScript SDK, and how to build scripts or dApps that interact with Indigo.
  • Researcher: Protocol design, tokenomics, stability mechanisms, and governance (INDY token, DAO).

About this project

This is a community-led education initiative. Content is open source (CC BY-SA 4.0) and code is MIT-licensed. We are not operated by Indigo Labs. This is not financial advice — always do your own research.

Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md in the repository.