HONG KONG — Solana's main yield buying and selling protocol, RateX, has secured a complete of $10.4 million in three funding rounds, capped by a newly accomplished $7 million strategic elevate backed by Animoca Ventures, ECHO, GSR, Crypto.com Capital, Gate, Rzong Capital, BGX Capital, Summer season Capital and others. (Cowl: Sean Hu, Founding father of RateX)
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This announcement displays the fast rise of Solana's structured yield market and RateX's place on the heart of that transformation.
Solana’s new structure for yield and leverage
RateX emerges as considered one of Solana's most superior yield layer protocols, giving customers entry to excessive leverage, liquidation-free agriculture, bond markets, and programmable yield merchandise by principal and yield splits.
An early innovation was characterised by margin YT buying and selling. It’s designed to supply merchants and monetary establishments with probably the most capital environment friendly strategy to specific their views on yield. RateX's system has successfully change into the blueprint for the subsequent technology of on-chain structured yield merchandise.
The discharge of RateX V2, codenamed Mooncake, introduces an important primitive up to now to the protocol: leveraged tokenization.
Mooncake converts leveraged positions into totally tradable permissionless tokens, eliminating dependence on lending markets and eliminating liquidation threat. The result’s a brand new class of Solana-native monetary belongings.
Funding yield token denominated in USD
Leveraged tokens that don’t require liquidation
On-chain programmatic leverage market
Configurability throughout all Solana DeFi protocols
RateX pushes structured finance into a totally programmable layer by turning leverage right into a tokenized part. That is one thing that conventional markets can’t provide.
In June, DeFi Improvement Corp., the primary US public firm with a Solana-focused monetary technique, built-in its adopted LST, dfdvSOL, into RateX.
This transfer will give the corporate's liquidity staking belongings direct entry to RateX's margin-based yield market. That is an early signal of how Mooncake's leverage-as-asset mannequin can reshape capital effectivity for institutional traders.
Roadmap: A common structured finance layer
RateX's long-term objectives are clear. Our purpose is to change into the on-chain equal of a world structured finance desk, powering fastened earnings, leveraged merchandise, and institutional yield merchandise each inside and outdoors Solana.
“We’re extraordinarily grateful to our investor base for supporting this imaginative and prescient of constructing the foundational layer for all structured finance on-chain. With Mooncake, we’re ushering in a brand new period of scalable, permissionless yield and leverage markets constructed natively for Solana.”
Sean Hu, Founding father of RateX
RateX operates throughout a number of chains, providing yield tokenization, principal and yield splitting, fastened yield merchandise, and built-in liquidity farming, forming an built-in platform for merchants, yield seekers, establishments, and extra.
