@TermMax #TermMax I’ve been looking through TermMax again with the $TMX TGE getting closer, and something slightly different caught my attention this time.
Not really the token. More where the money is actually sitting.
TermMax has reported $90M+ in TVL, while DefiLlama shows closer to $32M, with around $22M in active loans. The numbers probably use different accounting, so I wouldn’t read too much into the gap itself.
But digging through the vaults made me think about TermMax differently.
As a user, the experience looks pretty simple: deposit into a vault and earn yield.
Behind that simple deposit, though, someone is still deciding how the capital gets allocated and which opportunities are worth the risk.
That’s the part I initially overlooked.
TermMax can provide the fixed-rate infrastructure, but the curator still has a pretty meaningful role in how deposited capital actually works. In my head, it’s basically: TermMax builds the roads, while curators decide where the money travels.
And with $TMX approaching TGE, I think this gets more interesting.
Points and rewards have obviously given early users another reason to park capital there. Once those incentives start turning into actual tokens, we should get a cleaner signal.
I’m mostly watching what happens after that.
If deposits stick around and borrowing remains healthy, there’s probably genuine demand underneath the incentives.
If capital starts quietly leaving once the rewards are realized… well, that tells a different story.