Interview

Notional Finance – A fixed-rate crypto lending protocol

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Teddy Woodward, Co-founder of Notional Finance, joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this extended version of our interview with Teddy we discuss the risks that lending protocols face during the Ethereum merge, give a detailed overview of Notionals tokenomics, and describe the different roles that community contributors have.

Notional's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/notional-finance

Timestamps:
00:00 What is Notional Finance?
01:15 How does Notional work (fCash)?
03:50 What are nTokens?
06:35 Business model
09:15 Growth drivers and challenges
13:18 Partnerships
15:09 Community contributors
16:40 The NOTE token and its role
19:18 Ethereum merge - a risk for lending protocols?
26:15 What's next for Notional?

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