Save
A long-running Solana lending protocol, formerly known as Solend.
Save (formerly Solend) is one of the original lending protocols on Solana, offering standard supply-and-borrow money markets across a range of assets, with both a main pool and isolated pools for higher-risk collateral types.
What it’s for
Save works like any Solana lending market: suppliers earn yield paid by borrowers, and borrowers post collateral to draw a loan against it, subject to a liquidation threshold if their collateral value falls too far relative to what they’ve borrowed.
Reputation and track record
Save has operated since the early period of Solana DeFi and has been through multiple market cycles, including at least one widely publicized episode involving a very large individual position that stressed the protocol’s liquidation mechanics — a useful case study in why isolated risk pools and conservative collateral parameters matter for large, concentrated positions. It has continued operating and iterating on its risk parameters since.
Risk considerations
Standard lending and liquidation risk applies — read our guide to lending risk and liquidation. Because Save has both a shared main pool and isolated pools, pay attention to which pool a given asset sits in: isolated pools contain risk from a bad asset to that pool specifically, while assets in a shared pool carry some correlated risk with everything else in it.