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The State of Undercollateralized DeFi Lending
Introduction Undercollateralized lending accounts for an underwhelming portion of DeFi lending activity...Lending deposits have plummeted alongside token prices....Unsecured lending is risky business....unsecured lending protocols....Unsecured lending is never a risk-free activity.
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Unsecured Lending
Oct 2022
The State of NFT Lending — Opportunities & Risks
NFT lending disrupts the status quo....across 11 NFT lending platforms....NFT lending landscape....Every base vault implements its own lending strategy on one or more NFT lending platforms....prospects of NFT lending.
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NFTs
Sep 2023
Stablecoin Lending Declines, Hop Protocol, DAO Banking
Chart of The Day: Stablecoin Lending Rates for the Previous Quarter Stablecoin lenders on Aave and...Traders primarily use lending and borrowing platforms in DeFi to borrow stablecoins against crypto asset...The decline in stablecoin lending returns, alongside TVL, may indicate the unwinding of leverage and...
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Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2022
Morpho Finance: A Pareto-Efficient Lending Optimizer
...was the default design for lending and borrowing....This results in a spread between borrow and lending rates....Morpho is an up-and-coming lending/borrowing optimizer that combines P2P lending with the benefits of...Improved Borrow and Lending Rates As mentioned above, the spread between borrow and lending rates is...underutilized lending pools.
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Money Markets
Nov 2022
Mirror takes on Synthetix, Funding Depressed, Aave Dominates Lending
Aave Continues To Dominate Lending In the last 2 months, we’ve seen Aave taking significant market share...
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DeFi
Jun 2021
Modular Lending: The Next Phase of DeFi Money Markets
State of Lending in DeFi DeFi lending and borrowing protocols have seen a resurgence in activity, with...An Isolated lending pool refers to a lending market between just 2 assets – one collateral and one borrowable...While the legacy lending protocols are permissionless as any user can participate in their lending markets...
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DeFi
Apr 2024
NFT Lending: A Rising Opportunity When NFTs Meet DeFi
Two Main Models for NFT Lending Today There are two main approaches to NFT lending....Peer-to-Peer Lending Typical Lending Model NFTfi became the first protocol to offer NFT-backed...Lend to acquire NFTs....Peer-to-Pool Lending Peer-to-peer lending is straightforward.
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NFTs
Sep 2022
Drama in the NFT Lending world
It was a pretty dramatic week in NFT lending....ParaSpace, one of the largest NFT lending protocols on Ethereum, is in the midst of an internal struggle...
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NFTs
May 2023
Blend Is the New Leader in NFT Lending
As a new contender in the NFT lending realm, Blend achieved a remarkable feat by capturing 77% of the...attaining a peak volume market share of 82%, firmly establishing itself as the new frontrunner in the NFT lending...
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NFTs
Jun 2023
Modular Lending Legos are Stacking Up
About a year ago I wrote about the potential of Modular lending in DeFi and how it would disrupt governance...driven lending markets....They call it “lending restaking,” and it’s as clever as it is simple....Aave, Compound, and Morpho represent the first major iteration of DeFi lending markets.
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DeFi
Feb 2025
The NFT Lending Market Opportunity
As the NFT lending space continues to develop, with cumulative NFT borrow volume at $1.98B as of June...Even in a bear market, NFT lending protocols are still gaining traction, as weekly NFT lending volume...
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NFTs
Jun 2023
Is Morpho Blue Ready to Shake Up DeFi Lending?
Morpho Labs is a lending platform that has gained decent traction from its flagship Morpho Optimizer...Morpho Optimizer alleviated the high degree of inefficiency in the Aave and Compound lending markets...This is an unnecessary cost for users, and a problem that must certainly be solved before DeFi lending...
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Lending / Borrowing
Nov 2023
Kamino Lend TVL Spikes 25% on Snapshot Announcement; Passes MarginFi
Kamino Lend’s TVL has increases 25% in the past hour off of their snapshot/airdrop announcement, making...
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Money Markets
Mar 2024
OEV: How Auctions Influence Value Capture In Lending Protocols
Before we dive in, here’s a quick intro to liquidations on lending protocols....Liquidations on a lending protocol happen when a borrower’s collateral value drops too low, causing the...Why do lending protocols have to let go of all of this value? Let’s dive in further.
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DeFi
Jul 2024
Teddy and Jeff: Notional Finance Enables Fixed Rate, Fixed Term Lending and Borrowing on Ethereum
...the interest rates to rise until lenders are willing to lend....If I’m here for 30 seconds, I know exactly how to lend, borrow, provide liquidity....And when I click into lending or borrowing, it’s really easy, so kudos to you guys....So that like you can actually borrow and lend for a year or two years at a time.
DeFi
Jan 2021
Leo Cheng: CREAM Listing The Long-Tail Assets for Borrow/Lending, Cream V2 and A Yearn Finance Partnership?
...discuss how Cream started from forking compound/balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending...How Cream started from forking compound/balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending...
Lending / Borrowing
Dec 2020
Compound: Community Now, Cashflows Later
Compound is a decentralized lending middleman: anyone can deposit ETH, DAI, USDC or other assets and...earn interest as they are lended out to users on the other end....The lending market is full of competitors; from traditional players like BlockFi to other protocols such...It takes seconds to borrow or lend on Compound.
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Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2020
Frax Wants BTC, and Squads Hits a Milestone
Lending Limit: This proposal would limit Gotchi lending to a single Gotchi....The proposer points to large accounts lending their numerous Gotchi’s and not using them to play as the...Cover is a P2P lending platform for Secret NFTs and other Secret network tokens....Lending Limit: This proposal would limit Gotchi lending to a single Gotchi. […]...
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DeFi
Apr 2022
The Race to Build a "Sticky" DeFi Debt Market
Introduction Undercollateralized lending makes up less than 5% of the $50B in total value locked across...This out-performance from Maple can be attributed to its improving fundamentals versus other lending...These are users that provide “first loss capital” for lending pools in the event of a default.
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Unsecured Lending
Apr 2022