# Intro to B.Protocol B.Protocol was founded in mid-2020 with the vision to enable safety growth for the DeFi ecosystem. As a first step B.Protocol launched a [**Backstop**](https://app.bprotocol.org/) liquidity protocol to allow a robust, capital-efficient liquidation engine. The protocol launched its v2 in mid-2021 enabling anyone to participate in DeFi's lucrative liquidation processes with its Backstop Automated Market Maker (BAMM) - providing over $300m of liquidity to backstop supported lending platforms. In mid-2022, B.Protocol initiated [**RiskDAO**](https://riskdao.org) - a sub Service-DAO providing risk assessment and risk management solutions for DeFi platforms. Together with partners such as the research arm of 1kx, La-Tribu dev team, and other researchers and devs, RiskDAO fast became a leader in the space. Since early 2023, B.Protocol has broadened its scope, developing [**Risk Oracle**](https://risk-oracle.bprotocol.org/) in order to enable a more neutral, automated economic risk management for the DeFi ecosystem, minimizing the human factor in order to align it with the DeFi ethos of self-execution. B.Protocol is run by a community of risk-aware DeFi players building open protocols for risk mitigation and assessment, governed by the BPRO token. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.bprotocol.org/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.