How Loopscale Is Rebuilding DeFi Credit Markets

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, I interviewed Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of Loopscale.

Loopscale is a lending protocol built on Solana designed to give sophisticated users more control over capital, collateral, and credit risk.

We discuss how Mary went from building on Ethereum during DeFi summer to pivoting toward Solana, why the protocol shifted from pool-based lending to order-book-style credit markets, and how Loopscale recovered all user funds after a $5.8 million exploit.

Mary breaks down the differences between institutional and retail borrowing behavior, how its fixed yield looping product hit $1 billion in volume, and why she believes DeFi can rebuild global credit markets more transparently than traditional finance.

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