Minterest is Sunsetting Operations

After careful consideration of both market and operational realities, we have made the difficult decision to sunset the Minterest protocol. We know this will be hard news for the entire community, as it is for the team.

Minterest will begin a structured wind-down. The Minterest App UI front end will remain live until 19 December 2025. Afterwards, the protocol can be accessed directly via smart contracts. Your deployed assets remain secure throughout this process.

Why We Made This Decision

This decision was not made lightly. From the beginning, this community has believed in a vision of fairer lending. We’ve navigated a complex, evolving DeFi landscape and stayed focused on building technology that matters.

Over the past year, the team explored every viable path toward sustainability, including new-chain deployments, stablecoin yield integrations, and enterprise RWA pilots. Despite meaningful progress the capital environment and team constraints have made it impossible to continue operating the protocol to the standard our users and partners deserve.

Given today’s constraints, a careful wind-down is the right step. The wind-down does not include any token issuance, distribution, or refund for CAE/LBP participants, private investors, or those impacted by the prior security-incident. We recognise this is not the outcome any party had hoped for.

Please head to the Minterest Sunset Hub for all relevant details related to this process, including addressing likely questions from the community.

At a Glance: What You Need to Know

Live until 19 December: 23:59 (UTC+00:00): Minterest App UI front end (Ethereum & Mantle Network Only)..
Paused: new supply/borrow functions
After 19 December: front end will go offline however a contract-interaction guide will remain available
20 December: TG, Discord, X channels will be muted permanently. Support shifts to nextlevel@minterest.com through December 31.
31 December: All official user support ends. Core infrastructure, including the solvency engines goes offline.
Smart Contracts remain active for users to directly repay/withdraw assets.
All details, guides, and FAQs: Minterest Sunset Hub →

We’ll also post periodic reminders across Telegram, Discord, and email to ensure no one misses the window.

What We Achieved Together

After the project’s 2023 restructuring, a smaller team continued development under immense constraints to maintain the protocol, deploy new integrations, and keep the mission alive. It’s important to reflect on what was built through that, and what this community made possible:

Four chain deployments across Ethereum, Mantle, Taiko, and Morph
Top-3 TVL protocol on Mantle Network during peak activity
20,000+ on-chain users
The Solvency Engine, an industry-first liquidation protection model
Hottest NFT collection on Mantle
Recognition, grants, and performance awards totalling nearly $1M

Thank You

This isn’t the ending any of us hoped for, but it is the responsible one to protect protocol users and preserve the work for whatever may come next.

To everyone who believed in Minterest, including users of the Minterest protocol, private investors, CAE/LBP participants, ambassadors, ecosystem partners, advisers, and OG team members… thank you.

The Minterest Team

P.S. Please find all details on the Minterest Sunset Hub → https://docs.minterest.com/sunset-hub

19, November 2025