Pendle Ripped in Early 2024, But Usage Has Slowed Down. Can It Recover?

Pendle Finance saw massive growth earlier this year but has recently faced a significant drop in TVL. How will it bounce back?

Aug 23, 2024

Listen or watch all the new CoinDesk podcast episodes wherever you want.

ABOUT

Pendle Finance, an innovative protocol that lets users trade yield, surged in popularity earlier this year but is now grappling with a downturn in usage.

In this episode, founder TN Lee shares insights into Pendle's approach, the factors behind its recent success, and the challenges it faces in recovering user engagement and TVL. Plus, since Pendle’s rise was driven by the points narrative, TN talks about how the protocol can keep growing.

Show highlights:

What Pendle is, how the idea for it was born, and how it works
Why Pendle has exploded this year, even though it launched years ago
Whether Pendle is an app for sophisticated traders and the most common strategies in the protocol
How users are able to leverage their earned points in several protocols
Besides market risks, what the risks are of trading in Pendle and how they try to mitigate them
Pendle’s recent significant drop in TVL and plans to recover
If the points narrative ends, will Pendle remain relevant?

Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com

Thank you to our sponsors!

Guest:

TN Lee, Founder of Pendle Finance

Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk.

HOST

Laura Shin

Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (Public Affairs, 2022). Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had more than 15 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She lives in New York City.