I've stopped getting excited about launch dates. Too many of them turn into nothing. So when TermMax confirmed its date, my first reaction was mild fatigue, not hype.

But then I sat with what they're actually solving. Most protocols invent a problem so the token has a reason to exist. TermMax didn't. Fixed-rate borrowing is a problem lenders and borrowers keep running into, cycle after cycle, regardless of market conditions.

That's different. After FTX, the whole industry tried proving solvency by screenshotting wallet addresses like proving you have savings by showing a photo of your wallet, not the actual balance. ZK proof of reserves does something else entirely: it proves the math checks out without exposing the underlying positions at all. No trust required, no exposure needed.

That's the part that made me pay attention. Still, a launch date isn't a track record, and rate certainty sounds great until liquidity gets thin exactly when you need it most. I want to believe this holds up under stress. I just haven't seen it stress-tested yet.

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