Waiting 8 hours for yield you've already earned is fine for a farmer.
For a company running its treasury in stablecoins, it's idle working capital.
That's why next up at @merkl_xyz : near real-time payouts.
The goal: move money, yield and rewards with the speed and reliability of onchain rails and the flexibility of offchain logic.
.@merkl_xyz started inside Angle Labs, built to distribute incentives to agEUR holders.
Today it runs distributions for 250+ companies across 60+ chains, including PayPal, Robinhood, and Coinbase.
If you followed Angle for the tech, this is what the team builds now ๐๐ผ
Finance is moving onchain. Dividends, coupons, and yield now need to land in wallets.
Someone has to calculate who is owed what and pay them. That's a programmable paying agent. Merkl is one.
Same function as a Computershare or a BNY Mellon, except the calendar is the block and the recipient is a wallet.
Better late than never: here's all that happened in September on Merkl.
A new chain and a new kind of campaign. @arc went live with Merkl from day one, incentives went confidential with @zama, and @compoundfinance now distributes COMP via Merkl.
Read on for the full recap ๐๐ผ
Rewards never make up for a lack of product market fit. They can hide the problem, but theyโll never fix it.
Incentives work in mostly two cases:
- When theyโre sustainable and structural, like stablecoin yield
- When they bootstrap network effects, like for instance for:
โข Lending protocols that need to seed both supply and borrow demand
โข New vaults with no track record, where early depositors take more risk and deserve more reward than those who join once it has $100m+ in TVL
If your incentives arenโt building network effects, youโre probably just burning money.
Rewards on @merkl_xyz don't have to be always claim-based.
More and more teams are using us us to push rewards straight to their users' wallets, with no claim needed.
Imagine having to claim the dividends on your stocks, or the interest on your savings account. As finance moves onchain, payouts should just land.
People already use our airdrop solution to reach millions of addresses at once. Next step: we're scaling direct transfers even further.
Earn on your stocks. Borrow against them at a capped rate.
7 Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on @aave V4 on @base now earn 3% in USDC, and USDC borrow rates are capped at 3%.
Both powered by Merkl.
Biggest takeaway from @token2049: everyone knows Merkl for DeFi incentives. Far fewer know we also stream stablecoin yield, Earn top-ups, dividends, coupons and payroll onchain. Time to fix that ๐ท
Biggest takeaway from @token2049: everyone knows Merkl for DeFi incentives. Far fewer know we also stream stablecoin yield, Earn top-ups, dividends, coupons and payroll onchain. Time to fix that @merkl_xyz