Best Crypto Lending (DeFi) Platforms for Coin98

Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency, ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications. Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and applications. The community has built a booming digital economy, bold new ways for creators to earn online, and so much more. It's open to everyone, wherever you are in the world – all you need is the internet. Today, billions of people can’t open bank accounts, others have their payments blocked. Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) system never sleeps or discriminates. With just an internet connection, you can send, receive, borrow, earn interest, and even stream funds anywhere in the world. Today, we gain access to 'free' internet services by giving up control of our personal data. Ethereum services are open by default – you just need a wallet. Stake your ETH to become an Ethereum validator.

Alpaca Finance is the largest lending protocol allowing leveraged yield farming on Binance Smart Chain. It helps lenders earn safe and stable yields, and offers borrowers undercollateralized loans for leveraged yield farming positions, vastly multiplying their farming principals and resulting profits.‌ As an enabler for the entire DeFi ecosystem, Alpaca amplifies the liquidity layer of integrated exchanges, improving their capital efficiency by connecting LP borrowers and lenders. It's through this empowering function that Alpaca has become a fundamental building block within DeFi, helping bring the power of finance to each and every person's fingertips, and every alpaca's paw. Furthermore, alpacas are a virtuous breed. That’s why, we are a fair-launch project with no pre-sale, no investor, and no pre-mine. So from the beginning, this has always been a product built by the people, for the people.

The Parrot Protocol is a DeFi network built on Solana that will include the stablecoin PAI, a non-custodial lending market, and a margin trading vAMM. These are all use cases designed to solve one single problem: making value locked in DeFi systems accessible. Today billions of dollars of value are locked in hundreds of DeFi systems and converted into different yield generating tokens, such as the Uniswap LP tokens, or the AAVE interest-bearing tokens. There aren’t many use cases available for these LP tokens. The value locked in DeFi as LP tokens are inaccessible because their risks are opaque, and their units of account unsuitable for human consumption. The Parrot Protocol is setting out to make value locked in LP tokens accessible, by creating a liquidity & lending network collateralized by these LP tokens. Create a margin trading product (virtual AMM) using PAI as the common unit of account.

Apricot Lend provides standard lending and borrowing services: users deposit assets to earn interests, and use their deposited assets as collateral to borrow other assets. Apricot X-Farm provides cross-margin leveraged yield farming service for users to maximize yield from their existing holdings. Let's take USDT-USDC LP farming for example. In other leveraged yield farming protocols, users would need to own some amount of USDT and USDC before they can start farming the stablecoin pair. If they do not have USDT and USDC sitting in their wallet, they would have to swap other tokens into these stablecoins first. On Apricot X-Farm, users do not need to own any amount of USDT or USDC to start farming. Instead, they can collateralize their non-stablecoin assets to borrow the stablecoins with up to 3x leverage, and start farming USDT-USDC LP right away. These stablecoins will then be auto-pooled and staked for LP tokens, resulting in 3x farming yield.

Port Finance is a non-custodial money market protocol on Solana. Its goals are to bring a whole suite of interest rate product including: variable rate lending, fixed rate lending and interest rate swap to the Solana blockchain. The current variable rate product features variable interest rates based on supply & demand, cross collateral lending, and flash loans. Port Finance seeks to be the liquidity gateway for the Solana DeFi ecosystem through simpler user interfaces, lower collateral requirements, and adjustable liquidation thresholds based on volatility and liquidity. Port’s native token will enable users to participate in governance and share in protocol fees derived from all protocol products.

The dApp (decentralized application) is designed to take advantage of Solana's low cost, high efficiency blockchain; allowing the vault strategies to compound frequently. This benefits farmers with higher APYs, not requiring active management, and lower gas fees. We also integrated leveraged yield farming & lending pools into the platform, providing an investment with suitable risk rewards for any DeFi user. Tulip Protocol currently offers three types of yield products, “Vaults”, “Lending” & “Leveraged Farming”. You can jump to the relevant segment of the gitbook docs, that explains the one you are most interested in!

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