# GM Famiglia

**Published by:** [Nostra](https://paragraph.com/@nostra/)
**Published on:** 2022-08-16
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@nostra/gm-famiglia

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GM Famiglia 🌹 Welcome to the launch of Nostra, the most versatile liquidity protocol for lending and borrowing. Nostra is built on StarkNet, a Layer 2 Validity-Rollup that enables any dApp to achieve unlimited scale ✨ The Tempus Labs team is behind Nostra, and is backed by leading investors such as Jump Capital, Tomahawk, Lemniscap, GSR and Wintermute. We are happy to be part of the #StarkNet community! Let’s find out what makes Nostra special…But First, Why Starknet?StarkNet’s fast finality times and low gas fees offer Nostra the ideal conditions to make lending and borrowing more user-friendly and financially accessible than ever before. We plan to keep growing Nostra’s features hand-in-hand with the growth of StarkNet.How it WorksYou can deposit your crypto in Nostra to earn income, and borrow crypto using your deposits as collateral. On top of its basic use-case, Nostra has many innovative features designed to maximize capital efficiency and minimize liquidity risk. How does Nostra achieve this? 🤔FeaturesNostra is the first liquidity protocol to tokenize four different asset positions, which greatly improves composability 🥇 This means you have the option for deposited tokens to not be lent out and/or be used as collateral to minimize your liquidity risk. Read more.Table of tokenization of the four different asset positionsNostra is built with risk in mind 🎯 Our anti-contagion mechanism lets you isolate the risk of borrowing exotic assets from your other blue-chip assets. You also have the option to create up to 255 sub-accounts to ring-fence your assets with no need to hold separate private keys. Learn more about Nostra’s features in our documentation 📚 This is only the beginning! More features, such as P2P matching, dynamic and fixed interest rates, will follow soon 👀Testnet LaunchWe are launching our private testnet 🔜 Try it before anyone else by completing this form.StarkWare Twitter SpaceDo you want to know more about what we are building on StarkNet? We’re joining StarkWare in a Twitter Space to discuss what the future holds for Nostra. 🗓 Wednesday 17th August ⏰ 15:30 London time Save the date!Join La FamigliaLa Famiglia is waiting for you 🌹 Become a Socio

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