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# Gorilla investments

## **What Is Gorilla Investments?**

Gorilla Investments is a crypto investment fund built on the Avax blockchain. 

Gorilla Investments is a part of the Gorilla Ecosystem and serves as a passive income tool for users of the Gorilla Ecosystem

**How does it work?**

Users buy shares of the investment fund using MIM, and receive monthly payouts, which include all the profits generated by the investment fund from the previous month.

With the funds users deposit into the investment fund, our team of dedicated researchers and analysts who eat sleep, and breathe defi, invest the funds across various crypto startups, protocols, farms as well as established cryptocurrencies.

**What's the APR?**

Gorilla Investment aims to provide sustainable returns for the long term. This is why we offer a 100% APR. Our goal is not to 100X your money overnight, though we will if we see a chance to, our goal is to make you wealthy over time! Check out the chart in the ["our promise to you"](#our-promises-to-you) section to see what a $10,000 investment compounded once a year within our fund would be worth after 5 years.

**How the protocol makes money**

We are committed to making you money and passive income, which is why, if you don't make money we don't make money.

The protocol takes 5% of all profit generated from investments. 

This 5% is used to pay the team, fund marketing, and development, buyback and burn Gorilla Token, as well as fund challenges, and contests!

## Our Vision 

To create the worlds first cryptocurrency investment fund that's built on blockchain tech, for the people by the people, where individuals and investors who don't know much about crypto or that don't enjoy investing, or that just want to make some passive income, can be invested in the crypto market, and earn a great APR while doing so!

## Our Promises To You

1.  **To make cryptocurrency investing simple for you**

Cryptocurrency investing is quite complex, there are a lot of moving parts and not everyone has the time or wants to learn about the crypto market. That's where Gorilla Investments comes in, we take all the complexities out of crypto investing and make investing in the crypto market as easy as 1-2-3!

2\. **To make you *****wealthy***** over time**

Many crypto investment funds have tried to do what we plan to do, but have all failed miserably. This is because they advertised very high APY's which they could not sustain as they were not earning that same APY (as advertised) on the money they invested on behalf of their investors. To make up for the difference between what they paid investors, and what they actually earned many of these funds ended up printing/minting their coin in mass amounts. This caused a lot of dilution and tanked the coin's price.

Gorilla Investment's goal is to provide investors with a high APR that is realistic, and quite sustainable over time. We want to make our investors ***wealthy*** over time.

**A 10,000 dollar investment in our fund today that is compounded just once a year at the end of every year would be worth 1.2 million dollars in 5 years!**

<table><thead><tr><th align="center">Year</th><th width="150">Starting Capital </th><th>Interest Earned</th><th> Total Capital</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">1</td><td>$10,000</td><td>$10,000</td><td>$20,000</td></tr><tr><td align="center">2</td><td>$20,000</td><td>$20,000</td><td>$40,000</td></tr><tr><td align="center">3</td><td>$80,000</td><td>$80,000</td><td>$160,000</td></tr><tr><td align="center">4</td><td>$320,000</td><td>$320,000</td><td>$640,000</td></tr><tr><td align="center">5</td><td>$640,000</td><td>$640,000</td><td>$1,200,000</td></tr></tbody></table>

## *Get Started*

We make cryptocurrency investing as easy as 1-2-3 and as fun as singing do-re-mi!

Seriously, all you have to do is

1. &#x20;Open our app
2. &#x20;Tap/click "buy a share"
3. Sit back and relax as you watch your profits roll in!

With years of investing experience, who is better to manage your money than a team of crypto enthusiasts and investors, who eat sleep, and breathe crypto investing!

*Optimum Investments is not making any guarantees of a return, 100% ROI yoy is what we aim for, but is not guaranteed.* &#x20;

## Governance

Gorilla Investments is governed by the holders of Gorilla Token. Holders of GLA can create and vote on proposals that will determine the future of Gorilla Investments, and the rest of the Gorilla Ecosystem.

Votes regarding the wBTC reserve are governed by the shareholders exclusively. (1 share=1 vote)