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State of DeFi: September Recap and the CLARITY Act

DeFi activity is growing, but the rules around it are still taking shape. Here’s what the stalled CLARITY Act, new uses for stablecoins, and recent regulatory guidance mean for people earning and borrowing onchain.

September 28, 2026 7 min read

DeFi Sep 16, 2026 7 min read

How Curvance Manages Oracle Risk

Reliable prices are essential to DeFi lending. Learn how Curvance validates asset values, responds to unreliable data, and connects oracle safeguards to liquidations.

DeFi Sep 10, 2026 6 min read

Oracle Design in Practice: Three DeFi Case Studies

Oracle incidents reveal distinct weaknesses in asset valuation, market liquidity, and price-source selection, offering practical lessons for more resilient DeFi lending.

Sep 3, 2026 11 min read

DeFi Oracle Risk: A Lending Protocol Framework

DeFi lending depends on accurate, timely, and economically reliable price data. Learn how oracle manipulation, stale feeds, reference-price mismatches, and integration failures can affect borrowing, liquidations, and protocol solvency, and which safeguards can reduce these risks.

DeFi Aug 27, 2026 8 min read

Capital Efficiency in DeFi: The Hidden Cost of Idle Collateral

Discover the hidden cost of idle collateral and how retained yield, borrowing rates, LTV, and risk affect the true capital efficiency of DeFi lending positions.

DeFi Aug 24, 2026 11 min read

What is Looping in DeFi?

DeFi looping uses repeated borrowing and redepositing to increase exposure, amplify yield, and put more capital to work. This guide breaks down how looping works, how leverage impacts returns, and the key risks to consider, including liquidation, depegs, changing borrow rates, and liquidity.

DeFi Lending Risk Aug 13, 2026 12 min read

DeFi Lending Risk: A Framework for Evaluating Protocols

DeFi lending risk extends far beyond smart contracts. This guide breaks down the seven core risk layers, from oracles and liquidations to collateral, liquidity, governance, and composability, and provides a practical framework for evaluating how lending protocols manage, contain, and absorb stress.

Productive collateral Aug 5, 2026 8 min read

Productive Collateral in DeFi: Why Yield-Bearing Assets Change Lending

Productive collateral allows DeFi users to continue earning yield while borrowing against their assets. Learn how yield-bearing collateral, including liquid staking tokens, stablecoins, vault shares, and tokenized treasuries, can improve capital efficiency and reshape the economics of DeFi lending.

Jul 31, 2026 12 min read

Negative Borrow Rates in DeFi: How They Emerge and What They Mean

Negative borrow rates emerge when borrower incentives exceed interest costs, effectively paying users to access liquidity. This guide explains how they work, how to calculate the real rate, and how to evaluate the risks.

Jul 27, 2026 7 min read

Avant savUSD Yield: Looping With USDC on Curvance

Explore how looping savUSD with USDC on Curvance can amplify Avant savUSD yield on Monad. Learn how the strategy works, how leverage affects potential returns, and the key borrow-rate, liquidation, oracle, and smart contract risks to consider before opening a position.

hyAUSD collateral Jul 21, 2026 6 min read

hyAUSD Collateral: Borrow AUSD or USDC

Posting hyAUSD as collateral lets a holder borrow AUSD or USDC without redeeming the vault position, so the vault keeps earning while the loan funds liquidity or a leveraged stablecoin strategy. This piece walks through both markets, the leverage ceiling implied by max LTV, a worked net APY example, and the conditions that turn the spread negative.

AUSD yield Jul 15, 2026 7 min read

The Curvance High Yield Vault: Optimized AUSD Yield with hyAUSD

The Curvance High Yield Vault simplifies AUSD yield by automatically allocating capital across Curvance lending markets and rebalancing as conditions change. Deposit AUSD, receive hyAUSD, and gain access to an optimized, composable yield-bearing position designed to account for real market liquidity, rate impact, and risk controls.

Pendle PT-AUSD Jun 27, 2026 5 min read

Using Pendle PT-AUSD as Collateral on Curvance

TLDR; PT-AUSD is now live as collateral on Curvance. For anyone holding Pendle principal tokens, that changes what the position can do. Instead of sitting idle until maturity, PT-AUSD can back a loan while its redemption value stays intact. This post covers what a Pendle PT is, why a principal token works as lending collateral, and what becomes possible once PT-AUSD is deposited on Curvance.

isolated lending markets May 15, 2026 8 min read

The Architecture of Isolated Lending Markets

TL;DR Isolated lending markets contain risk by separating collateral types into independent, risk-isolated pools. When one market experiences stress (oracle failure, liquidity crisis, smart contract exploit), other markets continue to operate normally. This architecture trades some capital efficiency for dramatically better risk containment. For institutional allocators and protocols building on top of lending infrastructure, isolation is a prerequisite.

announcement Mar 23, 2026 1 min read

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