Ahead of Vasil, Cardano Welcomes Its First Fixed Rate Lending protocol
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 the fixed rate money market.” Kulfi finance facilitates lending and 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....
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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....
The decentralized protocol says its offerings of fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives will place it in a unique position in Defi
The Cardano Vasil hard fork is currently the second most anticipated upgrade in the crypto space, right behind the Ethereum Merge. This hard fork is just as important to the Cardano network as it not only improves the experience of developing on the network, it also strengthens the security of the blockchain. September has now been set as the month of the hard fork, and the most recent announcement from IOG shows that the network is almost there. Top Exchanges Getting Ready For Vasil Previously, IOG, the developer behind the Cardano network, had made it known that it needed to reach three....
Talk around the Cardano (ADA) Vasil hard fork has been circulating in the crypto space for the last month. The hard fork which was supposed to go live back in June had been rescheduled to July due to security issues but that has in no way reduced the enthusiasm around the hard fork. The new date was set for the end of July and as the day draws closer, the community has been buzzing with excitement. However, this has failed to translate to its price. The Cardano Vasil Hard Fork The growth of the Cardano network has made it a necessity for it to be upgraded and IOG, the developer behind....
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....