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Chainlink Revolutionizes Cross-Chain Lending With Shiba Inu (SHIB) Offering 10.93% APY

Chainlink Revolutionizes Cross-Chain Lending With Shiba Inu (SHIB) Offering 10.93% APY

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2025-09-03 15:02:00
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Chainlink just bulldozed another barrier in DeFi—Shiba Inu holders can now leverage their memecoin across multiple blockchains for serious yield.

Unlocking Shiba Inu's Liquidity

No more keeping SHIB stuck on one chain. Cross-chain lending means your dog-themed coins work harder—borrow, lend, and farm yields without bridge headaches or wrapped asset risks.

That 10.93% APY? It turns speculative tokens into productive assets. Chainlink's oracles verify collateral value across chains in real-time—cutting out middlemen and slashing settlement delays.

Why This Shakes Up Crypto Lending

Traditional finance still can’t decide if crypto is 'an asset class' or 'a scam.' Meanwhile, DeFi keeps building—bypassing banks, enabling instant loans, and now pulling memecoins into the yield-generating big leagues.

One cynical take? Wall Street funds would kill for double-digit APY—if only they could figure out how to open a MetaMask wallet.

Shiba Inu Cross-Chain Lending cartoon

Source: Watcher.Guru

Folks Finance SHIB Integration Creates Cross-Chain Opportunities

Folks Finance has become the first flagship Chainlink project to adopt shiba inu cross-chain lending through CCIP technology. The platform now allows users to deposit SHIB tokens to earn yields or use them as collateral for borrowing other digital assets across 12 different blockchains, which is pretty significant.

The team behind Shiba Inu expressed excitement about the development, calling it:

“This is incredible.”

The Folks Finance SHIB integration eliminates liquidity fragmentation by creating one unified SHIB liquidity pool that’s accessible across all supported networks, including Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, and Arbitrum. This approach was made possible through months of development work after SHIB partnered with Chainlink back in December.

cross-chain by ChainLink

cross-chain by ChainLink – Source: Chainlink

At the time of writing, the implementation of Chainlink CCIP has made SHIB a genuinely cross-chain asset instead of an Ethereum-only token. Shiba Inu cross-chain lending can also run smoothly on various blockchain networks without jeopardizing security, another key issue addressed by this technical innovation.

The SHIB liquidity pool currently shows strong early adoption metrics, with users also supplying approximately $25,000 worth of SHIB as liquidity along with around $2,000 posted as collateral. The platform offers incentives for early depositors, and the current Shiba Inu 10.93% APY is attracting significant interest from yield-seeking investors.

Folks Finance confirmed the development, stating:

“@Shibtoken is now listed on Folks Finance. The first memecoin with crosschain lending markets, powered by @chainlink CCIP for interoperability.”

Folks Finance cross-chain services

Source: Folks Finance

This is a big step toward meme coin utility within DeFi, and Folks Finance is putting SHIB on the right footing as a viable lending and borrowing asset. The integration will solve the past fears of low utility of meme coins as well as offer SHIB holders with new revenue generating products via the cross-chain lending protocol.

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