NAVI Protocol launches institutional lending platform in biggest revamp in 3 years

NAVI Protocol, a DeFi project in the SUI ecosystem, has rolled out its biggest service overhaul in three years and launched NAVI Prime, a lending platform aimed at institutional investors. The company said NAVI Prime underwent more than four months of development and completed more than three security audits. Its core feature is an isolated risk vault structure that allows specialist curators to build independent liquidity markets for specific assets or strategies, rather than having multiple assets share a single liquidity pool as before. NAVI said this separates risk by market, allows different terms to be set for each market, and marks a key change in building financial infrastructure that institutional investors can use. Since its 2023 launch, NAVI Protocol has reached an all-time high TVL of $1 billion and more than 1.1 million cumulative users. Its market share within the SUI ecosystem once reached around 40%, establishing it as a major lending protocol in the ecosystem.