Unchained · Friday, July 10, 2026
DeFi presents a significant opportunity for obtaining leverage against equities at lower rates than traditional finance brokers. Current lending rates for stablecoins like USDC at 2.7% are less than T-bills, indicating potential for DeFi to become a major flywheel for tokenized assets.
“Um, versus in Dfy, I mean, uh, if you're going to lend these things with a, uh, LTV of like 30%, right?”
“Like, uh, so, uh, I think there's, I think there's really an opportunity, right, for, uh, Dfy to kind of be the mechanism where, uh, one of the flywheels for, uh, tokenized assets taking off is just going to be this ability to, to get leverage against your equities, right? At like much cheaper rates than than you can in Tradfy with your broker.”
“If you look at, what do you get for lending USDC? You're getting 2.7%. You're literally getting less than T bills.”