#termmax @TermMax
$Previously, we thought blockchain lending only works really well when the collateral is highly liquid. Assets like ETH, BTC, or stablecoins can be continuously priced and processed quickly when a position runs into trouble, so I was fairly cautious about less-liquid assets.
But when I looked into TermMax—especially the physical delivery mechanism—I started to see things differently. Instead of always having to sell the collateral on the market to unwind a loan, in some cases the asset could be transferred directly to the lender.
That made me realize a fairly important issue with RWA: tokenizing an asset doesn’t automatically make it liquid. If the secondary market remains limited, then how the collateral is handled when a loan goes into trouble is just as important as how the asset is valued.
Fixed-rate lending also becomes more notable from this perspective. When the term and interest rate are set in advance, the lender not only cares about the profit level, but also needs to understand the underlying asset of the loan and how it will be handled if things don’t play out as expected.
I still remain cautious about RWA. Tokenization can help improve ownership rights and tradability, but it can’t automatically eliminate the inherent limitations of real-world assets.
What I want to follow up on with TermMax is how physical delivery will work with assets that are truly very low in liquidity. In my view, this is the noteworthy test to see whether this mechanism actually makes a real difference.
$Previously, we thought blockchain lending only works really well when the collateral is highly liquid. Assets like ETH, BTC, or stablecoins can be continuously priced and processed quickly when a position runs into trouble, so I was fairly cautious about less-liquid assets.
But when I looked into TermMax—especially the physical delivery mechanism—I started to see things differently. Instead of always having to sell the collateral on the market to unwind a loan, in some cases the asset could be transferred directly to the lender.
That made me realize a fairly important issue with RWA: tokenizing an asset doesn’t automatically make it liquid. If the secondary market remains limited, then how the collateral is handled when a loan goes into trouble is just as important as how the asset is valued.
Fixed-rate lending also becomes more notable from this perspective. When the term and interest rate are set in advance, the lender not only cares about the profit level, but also needs to understand the underlying asset of the loan and how it will be handled if things don’t play out as expected.
I still remain cautious about RWA. Tokenization can help improve ownership rights and tradability, but it can’t automatically eliminate the inherent limitations of real-world assets.
What I want to follow up on with TermMax is how physical delivery will work with assets that are truly very low in liquidity. In my view, this is the noteworthy test to see whether this mechanism actually makes a real difference.
