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About Minterest
Minterest is a lending protocol which captures more fees than any other lending protocol and redistributes them as rewards back to users who contribute to its governance.
Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.
Security & Audits
Oracles supply external price data to on-chain contracts. Oracle compromise is a common attack vector — diversified providers reduce single-point-of-failure risk.
Minterest Timeline
Major events flagged by the DeFiLlama community — protocol launches, exploits, governance changes, and incentive programs.
- Jan 22, 2024Listed on DeFiLlama
- Feb 19, 2025MINTY distribution begins on Morph
- May 31, 2024MINTY distribution begins on Taiko
- Jan 4, 2024MINTY distribution begins on Mantle
- Feb 23, 2023MINTY distribution begins on Ethereum
Protocol Profile
Minterest is a Lending protocol that lets users supply assets as collateral, borrow against them, and earn interest from borrowers paying variable or stable rates. It is deployed across 4 chains, including Mantle, Ethereum, Taiko, Morph. The codebase has been independently audited (7 reports on file). DeFiLlama tracks 4 historical events for this protocol since 2023.
TVL Distribution by Chain
TVL spans 9 chains across the deployment. See the breakdown below for per-chain values.
Supported Chains
Protocol Footprint
Minterest operates on 4 networks (Mantle, Ethereum, Taiko, Morph), keeping its surface area narrower than chain-agnostic peers. Its TVL is heavily concentrated on Mantle, which holds 65% of all assets — other deployments are comparatively small. Price discovery relies on 2 oracle providers (Chainlink, Api3), which diversifies the data-feed surface but also expands the set of third parties users implicitly trust. 7 public audit reports are linked from DeFiLlama, which is on the higher end of transparency for the DeFi sector — most protocols of comparable TVL publish far fewer.
Official Resources & Links
Verified external resources for Minterest — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.
Other Lending protocols on Mantapex
Minterest is one of 7 Lending protocols Mantapex tracks in this category. Direct peers ranked by total value locked include Aave V3, Morpho V1, JustLend, and 3 more. These peer protocols collectively secure $43.4B in deposits, giving you a frame of reference for whether Minterest's own TVL is at the top, middle, or tail of the category.
Available Yields
| Project | Pool | APY | TVL |
|---|---|---|---|
| minterest | USDC | 0.02% | $10.3K |
| minterest | WETH | 0.00% | $11.5K |
| minterest | METH | 0.00% | $38.7K |
| minterest | WMNT | 0.00% | $30.2K |
Recent Minterest news
Latest reporting from major crypto news outlets covering Minterest.
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