Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Sep 20 - Sep 27
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)The merge has come and gone, and it's left the crypto community struggling to come up with a new narrative. Where do we go from here? What's next for DeFi rates? On Ethereum L1, probably not much. I
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Sep 6 - Sep 13
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)The merge is upon us. In just about 30 hours from now, Ethereum will be a proof-of-stake blockchain. For the most part, it looks like merge positions are set. Despite their attempts to keep utilization down by pausing
Introducing Leveraged Vaults
After many months of work, we’re excited to formally announce the next leap forward for Notional and for all of DeFi lending - leveraged vaults. Leveraged vaults allow users to borrow cash at a fixed rate from Notional and deposit it into a whitelisted smart contract executing a specific
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Aug 30 - Sep 6
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)The Bellatrix fork is behind us and we’re now less than 10 days away from the merge. It’s all anyone is talking about in crypto circles these days - in particular, how to make money off
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Aug 23 - Aug 30
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)Another week of low, low interest rates. But for the first time in months, that might actually be interesting. This week, it might mean that Compound and Aave are losing their core use case. For a long time,
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Aug 9 - Aug 16
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)The focus of activity in DeFi rates markets, and in crypto in general, over the past few weeks is the upcoming Ethereum merge. ETH bulls are parading around infographics showing how much money ETH stakers are going to
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Aug 2 - Aug 9
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)Drama has returned to DeFi. Yesterday, the US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash and Circle (the issuer behind USDC) added the sanctioned assets to its blacklist and froze their assets. The Treasury's actions set an alarming and dangerous precedent,
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: July 26 - Aug 2
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)Rates ticked slightly higher this week for the first time in a long time. Compound's USDC supply rate moved up 23 bps. This is likely due to the current bullish market narrative regarding the upcoming ETH merge and
