Fixed rates in defi still feel like an afterthought, honestly. Everyone's collateral tech is insane — oracles, isolated markets, liquidation bots — and then the rate just floats around every block like nobody planned for it. Fine for a weekend leverage trade. Useless if you're trying to actually plan around a number.
TermMax locks it in. Deposit, pick a maturity, know what you get back. Under the hood it's splitting debt into a Gearing Token plus a Fixed-Rate Token, selling off the interest piece as an XT, basically running a zero-coupon bond through an AMM instead of a normal pool. A bit convoluted honestly, but it works.
The part I actually like: if liquidation can't clear, lenders just get handed the collateral directly instead of praying a buyer shows up. Blunt fix. Blunt fixes survive.
They're also collateralizing tokenized stocks now via Ondo, which basically gave them options functionality for free, almost by accident.
Problem is TVL's only ~$34M spread across 77 markets — thin. And Morpho just launched Midnight with real backers and reward incentives, which is going to hurt. TermMax is betting good engineering beats good distribution. That bet doesn't usually win. Sometimes it does.
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TermMax locks it in. Deposit, pick a maturity, know what you get back. Under the hood it's splitting debt into a Gearing Token plus a Fixed-Rate Token, selling off the interest piece as an XT, basically running a zero-coupon bond through an AMM instead of a normal pool. A bit convoluted honestly, but it works.
The part I actually like: if liquidation can't clear, lenders just get handed the collateral directly instead of praying a buyer shows up. Blunt fix. Blunt fixes survive.
They're also collateralizing tokenized stocks now via Ondo, which basically gave them options functionality for free, almost by accident.
Problem is TVL's only ~$34M spread across 77 markets — thin. And Morpho just launched Midnight with real backers and reward incentives, which is going to hurt. TermMax is betting good engineering beats good distribution. That bet doesn't usually win. Sometimes it does.
#TermMax @TermMax