Notional Launches Out of Stealth to Bring Fixed-Rate Lending to DeFi

After hitting a wall with banks, a borrower has turned to DeFi to pay off his mortgage. A software engineer has taken decentralized finance to a new level of practicality, by paying off his mortgage with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and refinancing the loan through fixed-rate lending protocol Notional Finance.The move marks a major step for the fledgling DeFi sector and more fixed-rate lending protocols in DeFi may attract additional users seeking mostability in longer-term investments and loans, such as mortgages. Currently, the ecosystem is largely populated by yield farmers looking....

Port Finance, the Solana-based lending protocol with the vision of bringing a whole suite of interest rate products to DeFi users, has raised $5.3M in its latest strategic funding round. The round is led by Alameda Research with participation from Spartan Group, Brevan Howard, and A41. Port Finance’s list of existing investors also includes Jump Capital, Solana Foundation, GSR, and Defi Alliance. Port Finance was the first to launch a variable rate lending product on Solana’s mainnet in July 2021. The platform now supports 13 different assets from the Solana, Ethereum, Terra and Bitcoin....

Researcher argues that fixed rate lending and borrowing would bring DeFi closer to traditional finance DeFi lending protocols have attracted billions of dollars in liquidity provision by offering huge returns, however the sector badly needs more fixed rate lending options according to one researcher.A number of protocols, including Yield Protocol, UMA Protocol, and Mainframe are already venturing into fixed rate lending and borrowing markets for crypto collateral. According to Messari researcher Jack Purdy fixed rates provide certainty for lenders and borrowers looking to accurately....

Kulfi Finance is the first Cardano fixed-rate money market. At launch, vaults will be dedicated to stable-asset and pegged-asset pairs, with additional vaults added in the future.  Louis Ryman, Chief technical officer at Kulfi, stated “By building upon Cardano, Kulfi has created a simple way for crypto users to access the benefits of fixed rate money market.” Kulfi finance facilitates fixed-rate lending, borrowing of Cardano native assets at fixed rates / Terms through an innovative financial primitive called wTokens. Fixed-rate financing touches all the edges of the modern financial....

The new entrant into DeFi lending hopes to stand out with unique collateral types and features. HiFi — the recent rebrand of onetime decentralized application platform Mainframe, which is focused on decentralized finance — announced today the launch of a fixed-rate DeFi lending platform. “Fixed-rate lending is an important milestone for DeFi,” said HiFi CEO Doug Leonard in a press release. “Investors and traders need less-volatile options so that they can plan finances in advance, have predictability in expenses and hedge investments with certainty.”The launch is scheduled for 5:00 pm UTC.....