August Digital Leverages Pendle for Enhanced Institutional Yield

🎯 TradFi Meets DeFi Yields

By Pendle
May 8, 2025, 3:11 PM
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August Digital, a DeFi Prime Brokerage managing $7B in monthly volume, is integrating Pendle's fixed yield products into their institutional offerings.​

Key features:

  • Direct access to Pendle Principal Tokens for institutions
  • Structured products available for USD, ETH, and BTC
  • OTC credit lines against Pendle PTs and LPs
  • Retail access through upshift.​fi vaults

Their unique position at the TradFi-DeFi intersection enables comprehensive yield solutions for institutional clients, while their retail arm provides composable receipt tokens for yield maximization.​

This integration represents a significant step in bridging traditional finance with DeFi yield opportunities.​

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The end game of DeFi is to become so seamless and reliable that it blends effortlessly with traditional finance—empowering both everyday users and institutional players alike. Today, Pendle has become a core component of on-chain treasury strategy for institutions like Amber

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The goal of Citadels is to accelerate institutional adoption of Pendle's fixed yield suite, among various strategies. @FasanaraDigital stands out as one of the DeFi advocates, having achieved market-leading risk-adjusted returns with Pendle. Institutional asset managers like

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Existing in a cryptocurrency bubble makes it easy to lose perspective of how small we are compared to the larger financial space. Even after establishing our foothold in the top 10 DeFi protocols and the de facto protocol in the yield category, Pendle's 2024 trading volume would

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Pendle is more than just an interest rate market, it’s become an essential tool for institutions to manage their interest rate risk; a “CoinGecko” of yield for users to price and evaluate future yield and even underlying protocol valuation. It’s great to see institutions like

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Pendle is quietly becoming DeFi's fixed income layer. What began as a niche yield-splitting protocol is now building a global distribution network for structured yield through what they call Citadels. For years, DeFi’s “yield” was synonymous with floating rates. Protocols like

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