With $8.5M in Funding, Can Strips Finance Make DeFi Derivatives Click? — CoinDesk

Strips is planning to launch in November with initial functionality that will enable automated market maker (AMM)-based interest rate swaps (IRSs). In an interview with CoinDesk, Strips founder Ming Wu referred to IRSs as a “great instrument for both speculators and hedgers,” allowing users to switch between more volatile floating rates and safer, but lower-upside fixed rates on deposits on protocols such as Nerve.Finance.