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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026Published at 1:51 AM EDT · New York
Compound Approves $52 Million Program and New Leadership to Chase Institutional Lending
The protocol that helped invent on-chain lending is rebuilding around institutions and tokenized real-world assets after retail deposits fell far from their peak.
Compound governance has approved a milestone-based program worth $52 million and installed a new leadership team to build institutional lending products and services around real-world assets, meaning off-chain instruments represented as tok…
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