Yield on stocks. The trillion-dollar question.
Anyone who has run the numbers knows that carry has traditionally been limited by capacity. If we have $10M of stocks looking to earn yield, at 60% LTV, we need $6M of stables and realistically to stay at reasonable utilization to not spike borrows we need $8-9 million.
Where do the stablecoins come from without asking them to absorb gap risk? How do we reduce that risk (what does SuperStocksUSDC do)?
Incentives can bootstrap these markets, but long term positive carry structurally needs:
1. Higher, non-circular stablecoin yields
2. Deep stablecoin liquidity
3. Predictable borrowing costs
4. Market-hours-aware oracles and IRMs
5. Rule-based automation across everything. LTVs, repayment, rebalancing and yield sleeves
Very excited to build this out and ship things over the coming months that we think tie it all together.
DeFi lets us explore things to solve this here that weren’t possible in the real world. Composability allows productive versions of the stocks to support swaps, basis and funding products, indexes, and structured products built on top.
No one company can do this alone, and for that reason, DeFi will win.
This week we launched SuperStocks on Base.
Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are now live in Superform. Eligible users outside the US can buy the stocks they want and for the first time, move from simply owning them to earning on them.
Every Stock Should Earn.