{"id":67165,"date":"2022-09-14T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67165"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:11:40","slug":"defi-project-compound-launches-institutional-lending-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/defi-project-compound-launches-institutional-lending-service\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi project Compound launches institutional lending service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compound Labs, the company behind the eponymous lending project, announced the launch of a lending service for institutional investors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Starting today, to meet the growing demand for liquidity, institutions can now borrow from Compound Treasury, using digital assets as collateral.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xgDIep18Qa\">https:\/\/t.co\/xgDIep18Qa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Compound Labs (@compoundfinance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/compoundfinance\/status\/1570035611314098177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The solution built on the protocol powers the Compound Treasury unit. Companies and financial institutions can borrow in US dollars and the stablecoin USDC, collateralised by digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens supported by the platform can serve as collateral.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, loans are issued without fixed terms or repayment schedules, at interest rates from 6% per annum. Clients will be free to use the liquidity as they see fit, provided the collateral remains sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Compound Treasury launched an institutional <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/compound-labs-opens-defi-access-for-institutions\">treasury management solution<\/a> built on the protocol. Users could earn returns on USD and USDC of up to 4% per annum.<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that liquidity for the lending service is provided by both the clients of Compound Treasury and the Compound Protocol, with assets valued at more than $3 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Lending expands our treasury management product to meet a broader range of client needs,&#8221; said Reid Kaming, Vice President of Compound Treasury.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in August, the DeFi project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/compound-announces-launch-of-the-third-version-of-its-defi-protocol\">launched<\/a> the third version of the protocol named Comet.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compound Labs, the company behind the eponymous lending project, announced the launch of a lending service for institutional investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1494,1156,1097],"class_list":["post-67165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-compound-comp","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-lending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67167,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165\/revisions\/67167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}