In traditional DeFi models, capital is often “locked up.” Whether stored in a loan vault or providing liquidity on a DEX, that capital is siled and restricted to one protocol, one feature, and one revenue stream at a time. For users, this fragmentation creates a “liquidity trap,” forcing them to manually bridge assets between platforms, incur high gas costs, and miss out on real-time market opportunities.
Today, Venus Protocol, BNB Chain’s leading lending platform, and Fluid, a pioneer in connected liquidity architecture that unifies lending, borrowing, and trading into a single system of modular liquidity infrastructure, are proud to announce a strategic partnership. Together, we are launching Venus Flux, the first integrated liquidity layer designed specifically for the BNB Chain ecosystem.
What is Venus flux?
Float your liquidity and watch yields rise.
Venus Flux is more than just a new interface, it represents a fundamental restructuring of how capital moves on-chain. Venus Flux introduces a new smart liquidity engine to the BNB Chain by integrating Fluid’s unified liquidity architecture that connects lending positions, borrowing capacity, and DEX liquidity at the protocol level.
Deposited assets do not remain idle, but are converted into a dynamic liquidity stream. Users can make a single deposit and access lending, borrowing, and liquidity trading simultaneously within one integrated system, maximizing capital efficiency without manual adjustments.
Core functions: lend, borrow, increase, exchange
Venus Flux simplifies the complex DeFi landscape into four integrated pillars.
Lend (automatic optimization): Users can supply assets to the liquidity layer through Lend. These funds are deposited into a shared, protocol-agnostic pool available across the stack that automatically routes capital to optimized yield sources without the need for users to manage multiple positions. Borrowing (Redefining Capital Efficiency): By leveraging Fluid’s advanced clearing engine, users have access to higher loan-to-value (LTV) ratios than previously possible on the BNB chain, resulting in lower liquidation friction and greater borrowing power. Multiply (One-Click Leverage): For power users, the Multiply feature automates complex looping strategies. Increase exposure and yield in a single transaction, eliminating the need for tedious manual cycles. Swaps (Liquidity and Execution Integration): The native DEX built into the protocol allows users to swap directly within Flux, enabling efficient position rebalancing, liquidation processing, leverage execution and unwinding. By integrating swaps at the protocol layer, Flux minimizes friction, reduces transaction overhead, improves clearing outcomes, and ensures optimal execution across loans, borrows, multiplications, and flows.
Frontiers of innovation: smart debt and smart collateral
Venus Flux’s decisive strength lies in its unique “smart” features that combine lending and trading into one fluid experience.
Smart Collateral: Traditionally, collateral is “dead” capital. With Venus Flux, your collateral is twice as effective. It continues to back the loan while simultaneously acting as liquidity for the DEX (earning swap fees). This creates a multi-layered yield stack from a single capital base. Smart Debt: Turn borrowed funds into productive liquidity by routing them into DEX AMM positions. Debt is not just a cost; you can earn transaction (LP) fees to offset your cost of borrowing (APR). In certain market conditions, you may be able to earn a positive yield, allowing you to borrow while still getting paid.
How the liquidity layer works under the hood
The liquidity layer acts as the core of the entire architecture, holding and managing all fluidity throughout the system. All ledger status and accounting are consolidated and settled at this layer, ensuring a single source of truth for the entire system.
When users deposit assets, those funds are automatically rebalanced across different protocols without the need for manual intervention. For example, assets designated as smart collateral are recorded as supply liquidity within the loan index system and simultaneously deployed as LP positions in the DEX protocol.
These assets are dynamically rebalanced according to the AMM structure, allowing you to move capital as needed. Thanks to the liquidity layer, users do not have to manually move assets between protocols. User positions are automatically adjusted and reflected in balances through an integrated settlement layer.
Because liquidity is shared across protocols, smart collateral can earn loan yields while simultaneously earning DEX LP fees, significantly increasing overall capital efficiency.
Strategic alliance for the BNB ecosystem
This collaboration combines the strengths of two DeFi powerhouses. Venus Protocol offers the depth of liquidity and long-standing credibility as a pioneer of the BNB chain, and Fluid provides the technological speed that makes that liquidity smarter and more efficient.
“Venus Flux represents a leap forward in our mission to provide the most robust and capital efficient financial markets on the BNB chain,” said Leon, Head of BD at Venus Labs.
“By partnering with Fluid, we are introducing new DEX products within the Venus ecosystem while providing users with a more advanced lending market experience.”
“Venus Protocol is the largest and most trusted money market on the BNB Chain, with scale and real user demand that few protocols can achieve,” said Samyak Jain, co-founder and CTO of Fluid.
“Bringing Fluid’s liquidity layer to Venus Flux is exciting because liquidity can now be lent, borrowed and moved more efficiently across trades. This unlocks institutional-level market mechanisms for institutions, professional traders, and individual users.”
The future of BNB Chain begins now
Venus Flux is now live and is paving the way for a more liquid, transparent and optimized financial future on the BNB chain. Whether you’re a retail user looking for “set it and forget it” yield or a DeFi native looking to push capital efficiency to its limits, the era of integrated liquidity has arrived.
Experience FLUX. Increase yield. Visit Venus Flux to get started.
About Venus Protocol
Venus is the main lending protocol on the BNB chain. Founded in 2020, Venus was the first lending protocol and continues to provide the deepest lending liquidity for major assets on the BNB chain.
About fluids
Fluid is the world’s most capital-efficient financial liquidity layer on which an entire ecosystem of financial products can be supported. Connect financial products such as lending, borrowing, and trading into one seamless on-chain system.
With a total market cap of more than $5 billion and cumulative sales of more than $190 billion, Fluid is redefining capital efficiency across finance.
