Folks Finance, a pioneering and rapidly growing DeFi hub, has just launched the next evolution of its protocol by expanding its product offerings to three new blockchains – Ethereum, Avalanche, and Base.
Working closely with Wormhole, Chainlink, Pyth, and Circle – whose technology powers the infrastructure of the expansion – Folks will provide natively crosschain lending and borrowing without wrapping or bridging assets. Users will be able to access multiple networks from a single account, which unlocks deeper liquidity and easy on/off ramps between chains.
The xChain expansion is Folks’ answer to: “what next?”. In the past 18 months, the DeFi industry has been accused of stagnation, especially toward the largest protocols. Folks plans to disrupt the industry incumbents with the efficiency and flexibility of its bespoke design.
Going live in April 2022, Folks Finance began as a lending and borrowing protocol on Algorand. Over the following 2 years, Folks Finance grew from a lending protocol to a fully fledged DeFi suite, offering lending and borrowing, swaps, leverage trading, a fiat on/off ramp, and liquid staking – notably, with leveraged liquid staking and crosschain liquid staking available as well.
Folks is now the dominant DeFi app on Algorand, with over 14,000 monthly active wallets and $100,000,000 in TVL – about 75% of Algorand’s DeFi liquidity. gALGO, the Liquid Staking Token originating from Folks Finance, is the most-used crypto asset on the network, backed by over 450,000,000 ALGO – about 4.5% of ALGO’s total supply.