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Isolated Lending Markets
Key Insights
- Announcements of Morpho's Blue and Instadapp's Fluid this week highlight the isolated lending trend, enabling these projects to decouple from underlying incumbants such as Aave and Compound.
- With lending TVL and APYs on the rise, innovative lending protocols are accelerating competition for an increasingly large share of the pie.
- Isolated lending protocols champion user-centric loan customization, mitigating tradition DeFi challenges such as fragmented liquidity and flexibility, and fostering more efficient markets.
The What
The trend of isolated lending protocols continues to accelerate. This week, Morpho announced Morpho Blue, and Instadapp introduced Fluid, both adopting unique approaches. Morpho Blue aims to serve as a new base layer for DeFi lending, whereas Fluid creates a liquidity layer that allows them to create their own DEXs and lending markets, instead of sending capital to Aave or Compound.
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Toe is a technical research analyst at Messari specializing in DeFi coverage. Before joining Messari, he worked as a data scientist at both Celsius Network and IBM. Toe graduated from the University of Michigan School of Information.
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