One of the core components of the traditional financial system is the massive fixed income market. Government bonds, corporate bonds, mortgages, and the long-term investment portfolios of insurance companies all rely on predictable fixed interest rates.

Institutional investors need cash flows that can be precisely planned. They must provide clear yields to beneficiaries or regulators, and be prepared for long-term asset-liability matching.
DeFi’s main current shortcoming is the lack of reliable fixed interest rate products. Although variable interest rates enable decentralized lending, it’s difficult for institutions to base financial planning on them. You can’t promise LPs that next year’s yield is likely to fall within a certain range, and it’s also hard to treat on-chain assets as stable fixed income in financial statements.
Therefore, despite DeFi TVL having reached high levels in the past, large-scale institutional capital has not substantively entered.
The maturity of fixed-rate lending is expected to change this situation.
For example:
1⃣ A sovereign wealth fund can deposit hundreds of millions of dollars in stablecoins into a fixed interest rate pool, locking in a guaranteed annualized return for 12 months
2⃣ A Web3 company can use fixed borrowing costs to plan project budgets and repayment arrangements in advance
3⃣ Pension funds can make asset allocations through on-chain fixed income products, without having to worry about frequent interest rate fluctuations.
Fixed interest rates allow DeFi to gradually evolve from a tool that primarily serves high-risk trading into a trusted fixed income market.
As institutional capital enters, DeFi’s liquidity will become more abundant, protocol governance will become more robust, and overall risk resistance will improve.
The fixed interest rate infrastructure being developed by @TermMaxFi is designed to provide the foundational conditions for DeFi to attract long-term capital and institutional funds.
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