YIELD TALKS: How To Master Stablecoin Strategies With Pendle Finance

May 9, 2025

Join TN Lee, Co-founder of Pendle Finance, as he shares his insights on pioneering stablecoin farming strategies. He discusses Pendle's innovative transition to permissionless market listings and the launch of their unreleased leveraged yield trading platform, Boros. The conversation dives into the importance of liquidity and institutional adoption, while exploring the unique strategies involving Principal Tokens and Yield Tokens. With a focus on maximizing yields and navigating the dynamic DeFi landscape, listeners will gain valuable perspectives on the future of cryptocurrency.

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INSIGHT

Pendle's Product-Market Fit

Pendle found product-market fit with tokenization of points, particularly Athena Shards in early 2023.
Stablecoins have become the main focus, with Pendle becoming a yield destination for stablecoins this cycle.

INSIGHT

Permissionless Listing with Curation

Pendle's permissionless listing introduced in 2024 allows protocols to list yield-bearing tokens more easily.
The team maintains curation to prevent fraudulent pools and protect users.

INSIGHT

New Stablecoin Dynamics

A flood of new stablecoins, many mimicking Athena's points system, is transforming DeFi yields.
Strategy funds and vault tokens mint stablecoins, creating sophisticated yield and lending opportunities.

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TN Lee is the CoFounder of Pendle Finance and Stephen is the Founder at DeFi Dojo.

In this episode, we host a deep dive on ideas and strategies for farming with stablecoins on Pendle along with updates for future permissionless market listings, plus their unreleased leveraged yield trading platform Boros.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
5:40 - Why Pendle is so important to DeFi Dad
7:42 - How Pendle found product-market fit
11:06 - Pendle preparing for permissionless listings
18:41 - DeFi Dojo and Nomatic on flood of new stablecoin products
26:14 - Overview of PTs (Principal Tokens)
28:52 - Overview of Pendle LPs and how they work
37:23 - The benefits of vePENDLE
38:37 - How Nomatic uses Pendle YTs (Yield Tokens)
43:42 - Sponsor break
45:43 - DeFi Dojo’s favorite Pendle looping strategies
50:58 - How DeFi Dad identifies potential opportunities on Pendle
53:11 - DeFi Dojo’s on the importance of oracles when looping Pendle positions
54:54 - Nomatic’s favorite YT strategies
58:56 - TN on institutional adoption of Pendle
1:05:28 - Closing + update on Boros

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Pendle Finance website: https://www.pendle.finance/
► Pendle on X: https://x.com/pendle_fi
► TN Lee on X: https://x.com/tn_pendle
► DeFi Dojo on X: https://x.com/phtevenstrong

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