@Treehouse Official Protocol: The Bond Market of DeFi
DeFi has staking, lending, and insane APYs — but it’s been missing one thing: fixed income. That’s the backbone of traditional finance, and without it, crypto can’t attract serious money.
Enter Treehouse Protocol, launched by Treehouse Labs in 2024. Its mission? To build the fixed-income layer of DeFi.
🔥 How it works:
tAssets (like tETH): Deposit ETH, mint tETH, and earn boosted yields through automated
staking + lending strategies. More yield than stETH, but just as liquid.
$TREE DOR (Decentralized Offered Rates): On-chain benchmarks (like TESR, Ethereum’s staking rate) created by pro firms called Panelists.
These rates are the crypto version of LIBOR/SOFR — the foundation for swaps, loans, and bond-like products.
Ecosystem & Adoption:
$500M+ TVL across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Mantle.
$TREE token powers governance, staking, and rewards (1B supply, listed on Binance, Coinbase, OKX).
Backed by LinkPool, QCP, RockX, A41 and more as Panelists.
Integrations with Aave, Compound, Balancer, Curve — plus growth vaults like gtETH.
Raised $18M at a $400M valuation in 2025, with support from both crypto OGs and TradFi leaders.
Why it matters:
Treehouse isn’t chasing hype — it’s building
the boring but crucial layer DeFi needs: predictable, benchmarked yield. With tETH
acting as “crypto bonds” and DOR publishing transparent rate curves, Treehouse could unlock trillions in institutional capital.
👉 In short: Treehouse = Bonds + Rates + Yield Curve… but on-chain. The foundation for DeFi’s fixed-income future.
