As crypto winter persists, we’ve continued to attract more capital and strategic partners. Let’s welcome Coinbase Ventures and L1 Digital to the CFG family! At Centrifuge, we’re the first DeFi protocol to finance real-world assets (RWAs) on chain. Today we’re excited to announce a strategic funding round from prominent industry…

Key enhancements for investors, borrowers, and community members to solidify Centrifuge as a DeFi pioneer — With the launch of our parachain underway, I wanted to share key themes and ideas about the future functionality of Centrifuge and the utility of CFG. The last couple of months have been extremely busy for our engineers as we’ve been simultaneously preparing for the parachain launch, growing Tinlake on…

A look back at the achievements of Centrifuge in 2021. — 2021 was unprecedented, but working in crypto has prepared us for dealing with ups and downs. Here are 21 things we did at Centrifuge in 2021 to help realize our vision of Real World DeFi: Tinlake on Ethereum has over $51M in TVL. Maker went live in April of this…

RWA Market uses the Aave Protocol to bring more liquidity to Centrifuge assets. — Today the Real World Asset (RWA) Market goes live! Built on Centrifuge and the Aave Protocol, the RWA Market is the first diversified real world asset market on the Aave Protocol, bridging DeFi to the infinite potential of the real-world. The RWA Market is launching with seven pools and is…

We raised $4.3m in a SAFT! What a journey so far, one we couldn’t have achieved without our hardcore supporters. Not only did we launch 7 pools, we are also now at over $3.5m TVL — and with this growth and maturity in our product we decided to bring in…

Since the inception of Centrifuge back in 2017, it was our team that propelled us to where we are today. With our launch last year, and rapid growth of Tinlake (just reached 2M DAI in TVL) Real World Assets and with that a whole new group of users are starting…

Let’s dismantle the existing financial infrastructure, strip it down, and reassemble it for the 21st century. Today we launch Centrifuge: the Decentralized Asset Financing Protocol. — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) leverages decentralized networks to transform old financial products into trustless and transparent protocols that run without intermediaries. When we started building Centrifuge in early 2018, the term DeFi didn’t exist. We were excited to bring Trade Finance into Ethereum and knew that in doing so we would…

Centrifuge’s contribution to DeFi is to provide loans to businesses around the world. For DeFi to replace our traditional financial system we need to build access to capital for businesses to grow. Gustav from the Maker Foundation and I talked about one such use case in Paris at EthCC. If…

This article is the first of a series explaining in depth our upcoming release of Tinlake and how it fits into the DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum. — Today we dive into a feature of the Tinlake smart contracts to showcase how lenders can invest in Tinlake loans. Tinlake is Centrifuge’s smart contract framework for bundling loans collateralized by NFTs. It allows investors to invest in these portfolios of loans by issuing and selling ERC20 tokens that represent a claim on value generated by the loan portfolios through interest accumulation, loan repayments and potential liquidations.