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Solana Defi has quickly matured in recent years.
But even if core behavior such as high-speed trade, Air drop agriculture and Getting grip strategies are grip, many users are still confronted with infrastructure built for slower, passive chains. And although recent attention has been paid to the repair of liquids, most new LRTs produce functional wrappers with limited composability. In a situation in which they either have to sacrifice liquidity for returns or abandon it, this allows users to take part in full giving up to participate in Defi strategies.
Blueprint financing, the team behind the concrete protocol based on Ethereum, saw an opportunity. After they quietly adopted the Solana-Native Lending Platform of Jet Protocol last October, they spent months on rebuilding the ground not only as a credit platform, but as a full-stack liquidity engine for active Solana users.
The result is GLOW Finance: a reverse and redesigned protocol that is officially launched today on Solana Mainstet.
It introduces a composite, margin-first architecture that is explicitly built for Solana’s High-Speed Trade Environment. According to the team, GLOW Finance makes non-required margin accounts possible with integrated adapters with which users can borrow, borrow and act at all within a single wallet-controlled interface. These margin accounts are programmable and modular and offer sub-account functionality similar to what powerful users expect from centralized fairs.
GLOW Finance introduces various important primitives that form the backbone of its trade-first architecture. In the core, margin accounts, or completely onchain, multi-strategy accounts with which users can deposit assets can earn passive yield and use these assets as collateral at the same time.
To make composability in the Solana Ecosystem possible, GLOW integrates adapters. These connectors at the protocol level are connected to Solana-Native DEXs such as Jupiter, allowing users to implement leverage strategies without jumping between platforms. According to GLOW Finance, this enables users to run transactions and implement capital in a native environment, so that the friction of switching platforms or manual management.
Link these primitives to the launch of a new assets called $ Glowol: a liquid repair token that earns yield through Solayer’s Mega Validator, while acting as an access point in the wider ecosystem.
