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Liquity's Forkonomics

gm Bankless Nation, Liquity V2 is live, and it's changing the playbook for borrowing, earning, and forking in DeFi!
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May 27, 20253 min read
Liquity's Forkonomics
Published on May 27, 2025
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GUIDE
Friendly Forks, Fresh Yields: What's New in Liquity V2
Bankless Author: William Peaster

Liquity’s V2 launch has jumped to the front of this month’s Ethereum DeFi chatter.

The revamped protocol is putting its new $BOLD stablecoin on the map with a new unique flywheel that's designed to simultaneously attract more borrowers, reward depositors, and defend the protocol and its USD peg.

The splash hasn’t stopped at Ethereum, either: more than 15 licensed “friendly forks” have locked in plans to port the codebase (and reward $BOLD users) across Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, Scroll, and beyond.

With its user-set rates, its NFT-based debt, and its forkonomics, Liquity V2's shaping up to be one of this cycle’s most intriguing stablecoin experiments—and now it's open for business.

Here's everything you need to know before diving in! 👇


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