Diving into cross-chain DeFi lending

by Jeremy

Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast talked with MultiChainZ chief working officer Aanchal Thakur to debate a well-liked decentralized finance (DeFi) use case: lending. Host Elisha Owusu Akyaw and Thakur explored what makes a cross-chain lending platform completely different from different platforms and the potential dangers it entails. Different highlights embrace conversations about establishments, DeFi lending, nonfungible token lending, and the way tasks embrace decentralized autonomous governance. 

Thakur began her cryptocurrency journey by falling for a crypto doubling rip-off, which she claims taught her an necessary lesson to take her analysis of the trade extra severely. She went on to work on a number of tasks earlier than transferring to MultiChainZ.

Thakur argued there’s a sturdy case for constructing a cross-chain lending platform. She defined that funds are unavailable for many individuals globally, and that making a lending and borrowing platform that cuts throughout a number of networks opens customers as much as extra sources of liquidity.

The MultiChainZ exec additionally argued that overreliance on a single community could expose tasks to a excessive degree of threat. She defined that one of many correct methods to make sure decentralization is to make use of a number of networks.

“If a blockchain will not be working for even two hours, when Solana was down for a couple of hours, it impacted so many customers. It impacted the belief of these customers. So, we realized that it doesn’t make sense to construct a product on a specific blockchain.“