Notional Partner Spotlight: Balancer + Aura

Notional Partner Spotlight: Balancer + Aura

Notional is focused on building highly efficient, secure, and scalable fixed rate tools for decentralized financial markets. Deep liquidity and asset flexibility is a crucial part of our long-term vision. Balancer [https://balancer.fi/] is a leading AMM provider with unique trading tools, governance characteristics, and other features that support

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Deep Dive
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 29 - Dec 6

Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 29 - Dec 6

Contagion came for Maple Finance this week. $31M this time. On an absolute dollar basis it's not so bad relative to recent blowups, but this one hurt because it would appear to invalidate one of the last, if not THE last, remaining example of "CeFi lending done

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 22 - Nov 29

Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 22 - Nov 29

I have two things to talk about this week - the CeFi lending apocalypse and surging ETH rates on Notional. We'll start with CeFi. The death of the CeFi lender A few weeks ago around the time of the FTX revelations I said in this newsletter that there

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Leveraged Vaults are Live in Beta

Leveraged Vaults are Live in Beta

We are excited to announce that leveraged vaults are now live in public beta! * Deposit your ETH and create your first leveraged vault position here [https://beta.notional.finance/vaults]. * Find user tutorials here [https://docs.notional.finance/notional-v2/leveraged-vaults/user-tutorials]. Leveraged vaults are a huge step forward for Notional

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️  October 2022

Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️ October 2022

*Leveraged Vaults beta starts this week* Welcome to the latest edition of the Notional Monthly Update!  Follow the latest news on Twitter [https://www.twitter.com/notionalfinance] or join the Notional community on Discord [https://discord.notional.finance/]. ‌‌‌‌ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🗒 Summary Notes ‌‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ -wstETH/ETH Leveraged Vault Beta Begins! -LP Opportunity With

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Monthly Updates
Notional Finance Quarterly Report: Q3 2022

Notional Finance Quarterly Report: Q3 2022

Q3 2022 was another challenging quarter for crypto markets, but Notional put in a strong showing despite the pessimistic backdrop. The protocol processed $84M in loan volume over the quarter and generated $172k in revenue while keeping TVL roughly flat at $82M. These figures are down from Q2, but reflect

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️  September 2022

Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️ September 2022

*Phuture<>Notional Savings Vaults are almost here* Welcome to the latest edition of the Notional Monthly Update!  Follow the latest news on Twitter [https://www.twitter.com/notionalfinance] or join the Notional community on Discord [https://discord.notional.finance/]. ‌‌‌‌ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🗒 Summary Notes ‌‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌-Phuture [https://phuture.finance] USDC Savings

Teddy Woodward
Teddy Woodward
Monthly Updates
nToken Redemption Bug Post Mortem

nToken Redemption Bug Post Mortem

On Sept 2, 2022 8:09 PM, we received a critical bug report via Immunefi regarding a potential flash loan attack vector against Notional. Within two hours of the report we had identified the issue and disabled the affected feature. We believe that approximately $5000 total of DAI and USDC

Jeff Wu
Jeff Wu