Pledge is a decentralized protocol that establishes money markets with algorithmically optimized fixed interest rates. Users who hold pTokens, Pledge’s Liquidity Provider tokens, receive a fixed interest rate called annual percentage yield (APY) with earnings accumulated per block, while borrowers pay fixed and predictable interest. Unlike other DeFi lending protocols, Pledge creates various liquidity pools with different maturities for a given crypto asset featuring fixed lending terms. This allows users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of money derived from crypto assets and stablecoins. Pledge also aims to meet the demand for portfolio diversification from crypto-asset owners looking to diversify into non-crypto assets.