A new Rheo borrower just locked 180d @ 4.01% APR vs. wstETH on Base. Why? First off, Lido staking yield is only 2.6% APY. So this wasn’t a carry trade. With Aave’s variable rates sliding to 3.54% borrow / 3.23% lend, this was a pure bid for funding certainty. They

Hunting higher yield brings noise… and lots of spreadsheets. This quick Rheo guide (8 mins) breaks down the pros and cons of DeFi’s core strategies. Agree or disagree? Let us know 👇

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Just came across this because earlier today at the gym I was teaching someone about defi and its structure Interesting to see more focus on fixed-rate credit in DeFi. Rheo’s take on term-based lending adds clarity and predictability, which is often missing in on-chain

Most DeFi lending markets price utilization. Supply and demand push a floating rate up or down. But real credit markets price something deeper: time. Weeks. Months. Years. When time becomes a market dimension, you don’t get a single rate. You get term structure.

TLDR; on the Arbitrum security council debate. Recapturing stolen money from ruthless dictator *in isolation* is a good thing, obviously. “If it’s possible, you should do it” depends on the following context: If it’s a signal that Arbitrum may not plan on decentralizing, it

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USDC on Ethereum today. Same asset, same block. Six venues. Compound Labs v3: 2.57% | Spark: 4.05% | Euler Labs v2: 4.69% | Maple: 4.92% | Fluid 🌊: 6.34% | Aave v3: 11.09% Ranked by APY, Aave leads. Ranked against a reference rate – the vaults.fyi

Variable-rate pools quote one rate. They have no way to price time. This week the market priced it anyway: 319 basis points between the 1-day and 30-day benchmarks.

Kamino didn't have a credit problem during the Aave-Kelp exploit. It had an equilibrium problem. New Crypto Yield Curve: DeFi's Diamond-Dybvig moment – why a fully solvent pool can still run.