Kamino has rebranded from simple lending, offers six new products
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Kamino Lending, the growing DeFi protocol on Solana, will rebrand and offer six new products. Kamino announced its plans during the Solana Breakpoint event in Abu Dhabi. Kamino will shift from pure crypto lending to a wider selection of DeFi products, offering six new services. The app is trying to adapt to a shifting DeFi climate, as Solana attempts to gain a wider share of DeFi and external liquidity. The biggest shift on Kamino will affect its capacity to tokenize real-world assets. Kamino chose this path of expansion after significant RWA growth in the past year. Introducing the new Kamino A refreshed brand. Six new products. A platform built for the next generation of assets and institutions moving onchain. Welcome to the next chapter 🧵 pic.twitter.com/MVrfl3NGro — Kamino (@kamino) December 12, 2025 Kamino previously worked to provide liquidity and increase its influence by accepting multiple meme tokens as collateral. The protocol accrued $2.59B in total value locked. The slower Solana meme market and the risky collateral, however, led Kamino to reshape its business. The protocol now aims to become the bridge between asset tokenization and DeFi. Kamino targets institutional users During the Solana meme boom, Kamino served retail and whale insiders, providing USDC liquidity against stablecoins. For 2026, Kamino set a new plan, aiming to offer institutional-grade services. To that end, Kamino unveiled its six new products, partially linked to its lending structure. Kamino will add a fixed-rate product, locking the borrowing rate for a certain term. FalconX will become the pilot borrower, demonstrating the institutional-grade credit. Another product will build a lending market through borrowing intents. Potential borrowers will post their desired terms, and will be matched with lenders. Lending in the crypto space is a bit too volatile. Rates depend on liquidity pool utilization and can vary widely, creating…
