Why Terra’s Anchor Protocol Changed Earn Rate To 18% APY
Anchor Protocol, one of the most popular platforms in the Terra ecosystem, rolled out a change in its Earn Rate. The latter will begin to operate in a semi-dynamic fashion rather than the previously fixed 20% annual percentage yield (APY). Related Reading | Terra Price Continues Moving North; How Soon Will It Cross $100? With a massive shift in the protocol’s reward mechanism, the new models aim at making Anchor “more sustainable”. As a result, users started earning an 18% APY as of yesterday, May 1. The earn rate will be modified each month for the foreseeable future. The team....
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Following the governance vote that aimed to implement a semi-dynamic earn rate for the Anchor Protocol, the decentralized finance (defi) platform’s earn rate adjusted downward for the first time this month. After holding steady with a 19.4% annual percentage yield (APY) since the project started, Anchor Protocol’s earn rate is now roughly 18% APY for the month of May. Defi Lending Protocol Anchor’s Earn Rate Adjusts Downward The lending platform Anchor Protocol is the third-largest defi protocol today with $16.5 billion total value locked (TVL). Statistics show that....
On Thursday, the team behind the lending protocol Anchor announced that a proposal has passed and the decentralized money market will “implement a more sustainable semi-dynamic earn rate.” Following the announcement, the value of the protocol’s native token ANC slipped roughly 2% lower during the last 24 hours. Anchor Protocol Is Changing the Application’s Earn Rate Anchor Protocol, the decentralized finance (defi) money market and lending application built on Terra, is making some changes to its earn rate. According to a recently passed governance vote, Anchor....
At the start of 2021, Terra had only two applications, but that quickly changed in a year — and it now has hundreds. Terra’s native staking token, LUNA, was one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies of 2021, with gains north of 13,000%. Terra has also surpassed Binance Smart Chain (BSC) in total locked value with $17.62 billion, making it the second-biggest DeFi chain just after Ethereum. Much of this growth is due to Terra’s ecosystem, with a community of developers continually building decentralized applications on top of Terra. But it may come as a surprise to know that before there....
Mr. B alleges that the platform was designed to only offer an interest rate of 3.6%, but that changed at the last minute. Anchor protocol was originally designed to offer an interest rate of 3.6% but this was dialed up to 20% just a week before release to attract more investors, a core developer alleged in an interview with Korean media outlet JTBC. “I did not know that this would go out with such a high-interest rate. Set to 20% just a week before the release,” said the employee, referred to only as Mr. B in the Korean-language report. “I thought I was going to collapse from the....
Yields from Terra's flagship savings protocol will be available to more than 30 million users on Binance. On Wednesday, centralized cryptocurrency exchange Binance launched its new TerraUSD (UST) staking program. Although Binance did not name the underlying decentralized finance protocol responsible for the staking rewards, Do Kwon — Terra Luna's (LUNA) co-founder — attributed the origins of the high yield to Terra's flagship Anchor protocol. Anchor rate is now available to 30M+ binance users The anchor yield of web3 is living up to its name. https://t.co/awubGdRJgP— Do Kwon (@stablekwon)....