Today we're announcing Synonym Finance, a universal cross-chain credit layer for busy DeFi Professionals 🤝 Synonym leverages wormholecrypto, Arbitrum and Circle technologies to provide the best possible cross-chain lending and borrowing experience to users. Time is money ⏱️

So why build a cross-chain money market? Today's lending and borrowing markets are limited by architecture. ❌ Users face limited liquidity, complex transactions and security risks. In traditional DeFi lending markets, liquidity is siloed across multi-chain deployments.

This fragmented liquidity translates to the need for multiple external bridge transactions, asset wrapping and swaps on DEX platforms. At the end of the day, users deal with switching costs and a generally poor UX. Synonym addresses these issues with a hub and spoke model.

Our hub and spoke model unifies liquidity across chains for bluechip assets and dramatically improves the UX of cross-chain lending and borrowing. Users can lend, borrow, repay and withdraw on any chain, from one simple UI. Professionals don't have time for switching costs 💰

Synonym's unified markets are built on top of @wormholecrypto's generalized messaging technology 🌪️ We take full advantage of the entire xChain suite, including new features like automatic relaying and improved payloads. The Wormhole stack is further enhanced by Circle CCTP.

The @circle Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol allows $USDC to be natively cross-chain. With CCTP, USDC tokens can be transferred between native deployments on each supported chain. Extremely deep cross-chain liquidity - no wrapping necessary. Synonym 🤝 CCTP

We're thrilled to partner with both @arbitrum and @optimismFND as we approach our official launch. Synonym will be available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism to start with more chains coming shortly after. Synonym will live beyond the boundaries of the EVM.

Synonym will become the de facto cross-chain money market for busy DeFi Professionals. 🚨 Our official incentivized test net will be launching shortly. Early users will get guaranteed access to our test net program. Don't miss it. Sign up here:

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