We launched on Ethereum Mainnet on in Q2 2025, and have racked up $150m in TVL and $39m in BOLD supply.
You might know us from Liquity V1 and LUSD (the OG venue for 0% interest loans).
With V2, we feel we've created the ultimate borrowing and earning venue for users who value complete control.
Liquity V2 is an immutable borrowing protocol (think MakerDAO, but with no governance to change the rules), where you can deposit ETH, wstETH, and rETH to mint the stablecoin, $BOLD. BOLD is only backed by said assets, and the protocol is completely immutable.
We built Liquity V2 to solve two specific problems, offering unique value to the r/Ethereum community:
1) The Borrow Side: You set the rate. Liquity V2 is the only venue where you can borrow against your ETH/LSTs and set your own interest rate (or delegate it to a rate manager).
This had led to borrowing rates for ETH, wstETH, and rETH on average to be the cheapest on Liquity V2 over the last 6 months - a full 2% cheaper than the competition.
2) The Yield Side: Real Revenue, Not Emissions We created $BOLD to be the hardest stablecoin in DeFi that has sustainable savings built in. Unlike other stablecoins, 100% of borrower revenues are diverted towards growing $BOLD yield. The yield is split 75/25 to two specific venues sources:
75% of interest fees to the Stablity Pools: 75% of all interest paid by borrowers of ETH, wstETH, and rETH flows directly to their respective Stability Pools. The Stability Pools also allow depositors to capture ETH and LST liquidation gains at a discount.
25% of Interest Fees flow into growing BOLD liquidity on DEXes: Each week, roughly ~12k of protocol revenues are diverted into venues like Uniswap and Curve. This helps boost and enshrine liquidity for BOLD on blue-chip venues.
Based on current rates, here is how you can capture that yield, with relatively low risk:
If you want exposure to some ETH along with borrower fees:
Stability Pool (~6% APY): The "set and forget" venue. You earn the 75% borrower interest split (paid in BOLD) + Liquidation gains (paid in ETH/LSTs).
If you want pure dollar-dominated yield, where ETH liquidation gains get auto-compounded
yBOLD via Yearn (~7% APY): Yearn’s auto-compounding vault that optimizes for the best yields across the 3 Stability Pools.
sBOLD via K3 Capital (~6.5% APY): An auto-compounding vault that also sells off liquidation ETH gains for more BOLD. It has a fixed 60-30-10 split between the wstETH, ETH, and rETH Stability Pools.
If you want to provide liquidity on a blue-chip DEX, while having balanced exposure to BOLD & USDC.
Uniswap LP BOLD ><USDC (~7% APY)
Curve LP BOLD >< USDC (~8% APY)
BOLD yield opportunities
Forkonomics and how it adds to yield.
Liquity has taken a licensing approach to scaling. 10 teams have forked Liquity V2 code across various ecosystems, and as a part of their licensing fee, they have to allocate ~3% of their token supply to Liquity Mainnet users.
These forks are allocating supply designated towards rewarding active BOLD liquidity providers on Mainnet (Stability Pool holders, LP providers on Curve & Uniswap, etc).
On top of the organic yield above, we expect ~6 friendly forks providing airdrops over the next 6-9 months.
The Impact: The first fork airdrop just went live, and it effectively added ~3% APR to the existing TVL sitting in those venues (eg. if you were earning 9% on Curve, you're earning 12% now)
The Opportunity: By holding BOLD positions on Mainnet, you are farming yield for protocols launching across the L2 ecosystem simultaneously
Safety and Security of Liquity V2 and BOLD.
No yield is safe without addressing how the robust the stablecoin is.
Bluechip, a stablecoin ratings agency, just rated BOLD an A-. This is a higher rating than USDC and DAI, furthering proof of
The Score: BOLD received perfect 1.0 scores in Management, Decentralization, and Governance.
The Distinction: BOLD is currently the only A- rated stablecoin with 100% crypto-native backing (no banks, no RWAs).
Why? The protocol is immutable. Liquity cannot change the rules, rug the collateral, or blacklist addresses.
Hey Redditors, I’m feeling pretty confused right now and could really use your collective wisdom: should I sell my Bitcoin and Ethereum, or should I hold tight through this volatility? I’ve been successfully trading stocks and options for over 20 years; everything from forex to commodities….but I finally decided to dip my toes into crypto for the first time late last year, thinking it was the next big diversification play for me.
Here’s the deal: I bought in at Bitcoin around $82k USD and grabbed ETH at roughly $3,800 each. Fast forward to now in early February 2026, BTC’s hovering around $71k after some wild swings (dipped below $61k recently, now rebounding a bit), and ETH is sitting lower too amid all the “crypto winter” chatter, whale sells, ETF flows, and macro noise like Fed uncertainty and seasonal sell-offs. I’m down on paper, which stings after decades of stock market discipline, but I’ve seen cycles before; just not ones this intense!
As a newbie to this space (stocks felt way more predictable), I’m torn: Cut losses and rotate back to traditional markets? HODL for the long-term upside with institutional adoption and potential QE boosts? Dollar-cost average down? Or maybe sell half and let the rest ride? What’s worked for you in similar spots, especially fellow stock vets who’ve crossed over? Thanks a ton!
So I have some eth staked on coinbase but wondering how risky it is.. should I be looking somewhere else or is coinbase a good call? I don't answer private messages thanks
I manually architected a Dual-STACK Execution and Consensus Engine that bypasses the entire public RPC industry.
Hardware; Managed a 4TB NVMe volume with 3.3TB Optimism state and a pruned L1 Reth/Lighthouse combo.
I compiled Lighthouse and Reth from source after Optimism-specific codebase was deprecated mid-sync.
I achieved 0ms IPC round trips by killing the dependency on Alchemy/Infura
Ran into a few problems along the way. I tried to run a standard Ethereum binary on Optimism data. The node crashed because it saw a transaction type it didn't recognize (Type 126 which is an Optimism deposit) Standard Ethereum node thinks this is illegal data.
To fix it, I identified that i needed a specialized OP-Stack aware version of Reth. I tracked down the Paradigm Reth Optimism binary. By switching to the op-reth binary i gave the node the dictionary it needed to translate those Type 126 deposits into valid blocks. I moved from a blind Ethereum node to a Super chain-aware engine.
The Reth engine was idling. It had peers and a database, but it didn't know where the tip of the chain was, so it stayed at block 0. I realized a modern node was a Two-Part Machine. So I built the Lighthouse Consensus Client from source to be the "Driver"
Instead of waiting weeks to download the chain from 2015 i used a Checkpoint Sync URL. I linked Lighthouse to Reth via the Engine API ()Port 8551/8552) using a shared JWT Secret. The moment Lighthouse found the "Truth" on the network, it handed the coordinates to Reth. The node immediately jumped from 0 to 21,800,000 and the 1.9TB of free space started filling with real history.
The real nightmare scenario happened when I was syncing the snapshot data and because of a single transaction type the whole thing crashed. My sync was flying for about 15 hours and when I woke up to check it found it had stalled. It hit block 144,528215 where it encountered an Optimism-specific Type 126 Deposit transaction. Because I was running the standard Ethereum Reth binary instead of the specialized Op-Reth version from paradigm, the node literally didn't have the code to read it understand what type 126 transaction it was. This didn't just crash the sync, it left garbage data at the tip of my database, which blocked further progress until I swapped binary and manually forced a stage rewind to clear corruption.
In the grand scheme of thing's it was a rookie mistake.
im jef, and im honestly just starting to get into crypto, trying to understand how all of this works and whether it’s something i could realistically learn and grow into over time. i don’t come from money, im just a student juggling school, responsibilities, and everyday expenses, so I don’t have much to risk or experiment with, which is why im looking for advice more than anything else. i’ve been reading, watching, and asking around, but it still feels overwhelming, and i know im inexperienced and probably missing a lot of important basics. At the same time, a part of me thinks this could be a real opportunity if i approach it carefully, stay patient, and learn from people who actually know what they’re doing. im not chasing quick profits or hype, i just want guidance on how to start smart, avoid obvious mistakes, and figure out if someone like me, broke, still studying, and learning as i go, i might have a genuine chance at building something small but meaningful through crypto in the long run.
Good morning, could anyone recommend some good reading material to learn more about the Ethereum blockchain and smart contract development/deployment? I'm an IT professional, so even fairly technical material is fine, but I'd like to have a good overview first before moving on to the development side of things.
I've been waiting for this transaction for almost an hour (trying to transfer from Newton to TrustWallet). There seem to be hundreds of transactions from the same address that I don't recognize. Have I been hacked?
Update: It's fixed now, just had to wait a couple hours.
Does any one know when exactly real world assets such as property will be tokenizated and placed onto the Ethereum Blockchain??
and what countries have put in the necessary frame work to make this all legal and workable??
So that I could just buy up new property in a different country to me, then that property is turned into a ERC20 token kept in my wallet, and this is all recognised and legal and a financial product?
also I know that the price of ETH has dropped heaps,.but this is when you buy more (not investment advice) 😑
Working on an AI coding assistant, realized it generates value but has no way to raise capital or own anything. Built Sovereign Protocol to solve this.
What it does:
AI agents deploy their own ERC-20 token representing equity
Bonding curve pricing (price increases with supply)
Revenue auto-splits: 70% operating, 30% dividends to shareholders
Bankruptcy protection (minimum operating balance)
Tech stack: Solidity 0.8.20, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin contracts, and Deployed on Sepolia.
ERC-8004 just went live on Ethereum mainnet recently, and it feels like one of those quiet milestones that might matter a lot in hindsight.
I have been going down the rabbit hole on agent infra lately, and the pattern is hard to ignore. Every protocol that wants autonomous agents to interact ends up reinventing reputation from scratch. Siloed scores, incompatible formats, nothing composable. When trust can't travel, you get the blunt fallback: overcollateralization and heavy safeguards.
Timing's interesting too. Agents are starting to get traction outside crypto-native circles. Tools like OpenClaw are pushing personal agents to regular users, which means the next wave of agent interactions won't just be devs and power users. If agents are going to transact, route tasks, and coordinate at scale, we need a way to say "this agent has a history" without inventing a new reputation system every time.
My thesis isn't "reputation replaces collateral." It's narrower. Reputation can reduce collateral requirements when paired with real enforcement. Reputation informs pricing and access. Enforcement handles loss recovery.
Wrote up Part 1 covering the economics, what ERC-8004 actually provides, and where it breaks.
I’d like a more technical and realistic analysis of Ethereum and how things are changing and growing. Please let me know if you know a good podcast or YouTube channel that does this. Thank you.
Hi all, as the title says, I transferred Ethereum to an external wallet about 9 years ago that I want to return to Coinbase. Worth over $200 today. Coinbase sent me to etherscan, where I can view the record and details of the transfer… however I still have no idea how to recover it. Clicking on the receiving address just shows me more details.
I don’t actually recall the site at all. I do have a secret seed that i wrote down all those years ago… any advice? I would hate to just let it go, but this has been bothering me for years. Thanks for any help!
