JD Gagnon, Co-Founder & CEO of BENQI – a lending and liquid staking protocol on Avalanche – joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with JD we discuss the basics of what BENQI is, how it works, how it's positioned within the market, growth drivers and challenges, and plans for the future.

BENQI’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/benqi

(note that the dashboard currently only tracks the metrics for BENQI's lending protocol. The liquid staking business line will be added soon.)

More information on veQI: https://docs.benqi.fi/benqi-liquid-staking/veqi

BENQI: https://benqi.fi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenqiFinance

JD’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_diamondrock

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:10 What is BENQI?

02:22 BENQI Liquidity Market (BLM)

04:36 BENQI Liquid Staking (BLS)

06:27 Differences between (liquid) staking AVAX and ETH

08:43 Fees & business model

10:52 Growth drivers & business development focus areas

13:12 The QI token & veQI

15:13 User composition

17:22 What's next for BENQI?

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