Token Warrants

18 Oct 2022

I’ve previously written on the deal structure we gravitate towards when making a first investment into a crypto company: equity + token warrants. In this post I’ll dive into the token warrant itself and highlight some key points. A warrant is similar to an option. Warrants give their holders...

Structuring the first crypto financing round

30 Sep 2022

At Cherry Crypto we work at the earliest stages with founders and often come to the discussion of how to structure their first financing round. I wanted to share our thoughts with the hope that others find it helpful and to help sharpen our own thinking. The main and obvious...

NFT lending models

28 Jun 2022

The synthesis of NFTs and DeFi promises to unlock utility for all types of NFTs by enabling their use in a host of financial services. A segment within this space that we’re excited about is NFT-backed lending. Most loans in DeFi today are either overcollateralized with fungible tokens or...

Exploring un(der)collateralized lending in DeFi

09 May 2022

Lending markets are a core financial primitive with one of the highest adoption rates across DeFi today. The top 3 lending protocols, Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO currently have around $10B in outstanding loans. While loan volume is one lens through which to look at these lending protocols, another is to...

Morpho

22 Oct 2021

Lending markets were one of the first decentralized finance (DeFi) primitives to show product-market fit and have consistently ranked amongst the applications with the most traction. A quick glance at total value locked (TVL) across DeFi protocols today reveals that 4 of the top 5 are lending protocols, holding over...