DeFi Lending

Aave, originally called ETHLend, was founded by Stani Kulechov in 2017.ETHLend later rebranded to “Aave”, a Finnish word that translates to “ghost” in English. The ghost represents Aave’s mission to create a transparent and open infrastructure for decentralized finance. Headquartered in London, Aave is made up of a team of innovators who are actively shaping the future of finance.

Compound is a protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that establishes money markets, which are pools of assets with algorithmically derived interest rates, based on the supply and demand for the asset. Suppliers (and borrowers) of an asset interact directly with the protocol, earning (and paying) a floating interest rate, without having to negotiate terms such as maturity, interest rate, or collateral with a peer or counterparty.

Cream Finance is a platform which supports lending and trading cryptocurrenies on the Binance Smart Chain and the Ethereum Network. DecentYields is using the Ethereum version of C.R.E.A.M.

CREAM v1 offers lending markets for the long-tail of crypto assets, and does not allow protocol to protocol lending. The Iron Bank services both individual users as well as the liquidity backbone for other DeFi protocols. The Iron Bank features a smaller selection of assets that are deemed to have higher creditworthiness. Whitelisted protocols can borrow from this pool of assets with little to no collateral on The Iron Bank directly. Credit risks are managed through a combination of smart contract security review, insurance coverage, and financial backstop.

DDEX is a decentralized margin trading exchange which allows users to lend and borrow funds. It is powered by the Hydro Protocol which is built on ethereum.

dYdX is a decentralized trading platform which offers lending, borrowing and trading with up to 10x leverage. Open short or leveraged positions with leverage up to 10x. Trade on Margin and Perpetuals. Borrow any supported asset directly to your wallet. Use existing crypto holdings as collateral. Deposit funds to continuously earn interest over time. Variable interest ensures you always get market rate.

bZx is a decentralized protocol that enables lending and borrowing for margin trading. The protocol can be easily integrated into new and existing exchanges, or accessed simply through the native bZx portal. The lending portal can be found here: Fulcrum The borrowing portal can be found here: Torque

Fulcrum is a powerful DeFi platform for tokenized lending and margin trading powered by bZx. bZx is a decentralized protocol that enables lending and borrowing for margin trading. The protocol can be easily integrated into new and existing exchanges, or accessed simply through the native bZx portal.