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Detailed Analysis of the Pendle (PENDLE) Project (Data as of May 2026)
Pendle Finance (commonly referred to as Pendle) is a leading **DeFi yield trading protocol**. Its core innovation is tokenizing and splitting the future yields of interest-bearing assets, allowing users to independently trade “principal” and “yield,” thereby enabling strategies such as fixed income locking, floating yield speculation, and leveraged long/short yield strategies. It is hailed as the “secondary market for yields” in DeFi, similar to zero-coupon bonds plus coupon splitting in traditional finance.
The project launched on the Ethereum mainnet in 2021, founded by TN Lee (former Business Lead at Kyber Network). It has expanded to multiple chains including Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, BNB Chain, HyperEVM, and others, supporting LSD/LRT, stablecoins, RWA, and other assets. By 2025-2026, Pendle has become one of the DeFi protocols with the highest TVL and active users, dominating the yield infrastructure space.