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Interest Bearing Token Part 2 The interest-bearing extension adds the ability for a token mint to accrue interest over time. In our previous discussion of Token-2022, we introduced the...
Last updated on Oct 22, 2025
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Interest Bearing Token Part 1 The Token-2022 interest-bearing extension enables a token mint to automatically accrue interest on all token accounts for that specific mint. It uses an annual rate...
Last updated on Oct 22, 2025
The Architecture of the Compound V3 Smart Contract Introduction and prerequisites Compound is one of the most significant lending protocols in DeFi, having inspired the design of nearly every lending...
Last updated on Oct 8, 2025
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Compound V3 Interest Per Second The Compound V3 protocol measures interest on the scale of seconds. The Compound V3 frontend scales the number up to years for human friendliness. When we check the...
Last updated on Sep 29, 2025
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Bulkers in Compound V3 The bulker contracts in Compound V3 are multicall-like contracts for batching several transactions. For example, if we wanted to supply Ether, LINK, and wBTC as collateral and...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
Understanding Collateral, Liquidations, and Reserves in Compound V3 In this chapter we will examine the following topics about Compound V3: collateral valuation absorbing insufficiently...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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How Compound V3 Allocates COMP Rewards Compound issues rewards in COMP tokens to lenders and borrowers in proportion to their share of a market’s lending and borrowing. The algorithm is extremely...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
cUSDC V3 (Compound V3) as a non-standard Rebasing Token, CometExt.sol The Compound V3 contract behaves like a rebasing ERC-20 token. A rebasing token is a token which has an algorithmically adjusted...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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DeFi Lending: Liquidations and Collateral In TradFi, when someone defaults on a loan, the creditor has the right to seize assets or garnish wages. In DeFi, when someone defaults on a loan it isn’t...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
DeFi Interest Rate Indexes: Principal value and Present Value in Compound V3 The intuitive way to track lender deposits is to record the amount of USDC they deposited and the time they deposited....
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
The interest rate model of Aave V3 and Compound V2 Interest rates in TradFi (traditional finance) are largely determined by central banks and influenced by market factors. In contrast, DeFi interest...
Last updated on Aug 29, 2025