Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: June 7 - June 14
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)What a time to be alive. Exchanges are firing big chunks of their employees, crypto lending desks are blowing up, funds are insolvent, assets that were supposed to be pegged are de-pegging. And meanwhile, amidst all this -
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: May 31 - June 7
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)Another week gone by, another week of rock-bottom interest rates in DeFi. Not much new to say here for the variable rate lending markets - until they find out a way to tap into other sources of borrowing
HALF A BILLION!! 🎉🥳 Notional Monthly Update 🗓️ May 2022
We crossed the half a billion in fixed rate loan volume on Notional mark! Reached less than seven months after the V2 launch, Notional is the first fixed rate borrowing and lending DeFi protocol to generate this volume.
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: May 24 - May 31
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)Well, it's been a slow week. Rates are low, but that's nothing new. With rates in TradFi set to rise significantly above the rates on Compound and Aave, I don't think things
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: May 17 - May 24
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)It finally happened - one of the big two DeFi money markets turned off incentives. Aave's incentives have expired and there's no plan to extend them. This marks yet another blow to the humble
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: May 10 - May 17
COMP recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 3 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)AAVE recursive lending rate = all-in supply + 4 * (all-in supply - all-in borrow)We got some fireworks this week. Crypto prices plunged to as low as ~1750 ETH. This set off a wave of liquidations through DeFi and brought
Guide: Allocate Your veBAL to Notional to Maximize LP Rewards
With the new veBAL voting system, it's important that all holders actively steer the distribution of BAL for liquidity mining to the new Notional 80/20 NOTE/WETH pool. [https://app.balancer.fi/#/vebal] The more veBAL a pool gets voted, the more BAL its LPs will receive
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: May 3 - May 10
Good God, what a week. Crypto prices took an absolute beating over the last couple days. Even stablecoins got rekt. For the most part, the net result of this for interest rates is that they moved lower, although that isn't completely true. USDC rates hit new lows of less than 2%.