Overview

Echelon has tens of thousands of monthly active users, and hundreds of millions in capital deposits and loans originated. It is now looking to expand from a pure crypto native global pool model lending market to become a truly better version of traditional financial infrastructure. Echelon seeks to achieve this through the launch of four core products that will aim to integrate structured financial product trading, onboard KYCd users, onboard a variety of real world assets, and enable onchain undercollateralized lending and credit expansion respectively.

Current State

Echelon has built a community of 1000+ daily active users who use the platform to borrow against their Bitcoin, Ether, APT, Liquid Staking Tokens, and other stablecoins. This has led to us working with companies like Ethena to offer high yielding stablecoins and World Liberty Financial to offer robust onchain US dollars. We have worked with exchanges like OKX to integrate new types of BTC, and have tens of millions of Bitcoin deposits on the platform. Echelon has grown to become the largest DeFi protocol on Aptos since launching in early 2024, and one of the top 10 largest lending protocols in DeFi.

Fixed Yield Product

Fixed yields are a large market in traditional finance, and a significantly sized one in crypto as well (as demonstrated by Pendle). Echelon is looking to become the first DeFi lending platform that has its own integrated fixed yield product. We will enable the tokenization and trading of future yield from all types of crypto and RWAs assets, and allow the collateralization of these on one interface. This will allow users to seamlessly borrow against complex structured positions natively on Echelon.

Modular Pool for Tokenized Assets (RWAs)

Echelon in late 2025 and early 2026 will be rolling out Modular Pools, separate from our global lending pool product. This will function by allowing KYC’d users to supply stablecoin liquidity to various individual tokenized real world assets from verified institutional suppliers. The modular system enables Echelon to silo risk and allow highly diverse yield bearing collateral types - from trade finance receivables to equipment leases to revenue-based financing agreements. Each RWA pool module will come with its own oracle integration, legal framework, and servicing rails.

We are currently exploring this with several notable partners and will keep our community closely updated.

Integration with Mobile Apps and Neobanks

As we roll out the above as part of the Echelon platform, throughout 2026 we are looking to transform from a power user, primarily desktop based experience, into mobile-first financial infrastructure. Through native SDKs and white-label solutions, we are working with select neobanks and fintech companies (most notably with https://x.com/StackAppReal as their initial partner) to offer their users instant access to our lending pools directly from their existing interfaces - no wallet management or gas fees required.

Through our distribution partners, Web2 users will simply deposit their idle fiat balances to earn Echelon DeFi yields, or access credit lines that appear alongside their traditional banking products, all while the complexity of blockchain interactions happens invisibly in the background. This positions us as the invisible DeFi layer powering the next generation of consumer finance applications, ultimately bringing our products millions of users who don't even know they're using crypto.

Overview

Echelon has tens of thousands of monthly active users, and hundreds of millions in capital deposits and loans originated. It is now looking to expand from a pure crypto native global pool model lending market to become a truly better version of traditional financial infrastructure. Echelon seeks to achieve this through the launch of four core products that will aim to integrate structured financial product trading, onboard KYCd users, onboard a variety of real world assets, and enable onchain undercollateralized lending and credit expansion respectively.

Current State

Echelon has built a community of 1000+ daily active users who use the platform to borrow against their Bitcoin, Ether, APT, Liquid Staking Tokens, and other stablecoins. This has led to us working with companies like Ethena to offer high yielding stablecoins and World Liberty Financial to offer robust onchain US dollars. We have worked with exchanges like OKX to integrate new types of BTC, and have tens of millions of Bitcoin deposits on the platform. Echelon has grown to become the largest DeFi protocol on Aptos since launching in early 2024, and one of the top 10 largest lending protocols in DeFi.

Fixed Yield Product

Fixed yields are a large market in traditional finance, and a significantly sized one in crypto as well (as demonstrated by Pendle). Echelon is looking to become the first DeFi lending platform that has its own integrated fixed yield product. We will enable the tokenization and trading of future yield from all types of crypto and RWAs assets, and allow the collateralization of these on one interface. This will allow users to seamlessly borrow against complex structured positions natively on Echelon.

Modular Pool for Tokenized Assets (RWAs)

Echelon in late 2025 and early 2026 will be rolling out Modular Pools, separate from our global lending pool product. This will function by allowing KYC’d users to supply stablecoin liquidity to various individual tokenized real world assets from verified institutional suppliers. The modular system enables Echelon to silo risk and allow highly diverse yield bearing collateral types - from trade finance receivables to equipment leases to revenue-based financing agreements. Each RWA pool module will come with its own oracle integration, legal framework, and servicing rails.

We are currently exploring this with several notable partners and will keep our community closely updated.

Integration with Mobile Apps and Neobanks

As we roll out the above as part of the Echelon platform, throughout 2026 we are looking to transform from a power user, primarily desktop based experience, into mobile-first financial infrastructure. Through native SDKs and white-label solutions, we are working with select neobanks and fintech companies (most notably with https://x.com/StackAppReal as their initial partner) to offer their users instant access to our lending pools directly from their existing interfaces - no wallet management or gas fees required.

Through our distribution partners, Web2 users will simply deposit their idle fiat balances to earn Echelon DeFi yields, or access credit lines that appear alongside their traditional banking products, all while the complexity of blockchain interactions happens invisibly in the background. This positions us as the invisible DeFi layer powering the next generation of consumer finance applications, ultimately bringing our products millions of users who don't even know they're using crypto.