Lending Markets and Credit Risk·Lesson 12 of 31·22 min
Interest Rate Models
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The concept DeFi lending pools have no human rate-setter — borrow and supply rates are set entirely algorithmically, as a function of utilisation: the fraction of supplied assets currently borrowed out (U = total borrowed / total supplied). This single number drives everything, because it's the pool's real-time signal of supply-and-demand pressure for that asset. Most protocols use a two-slope……
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