Ether.fi has updated its app, adding tokenized stocks, precious metals, and Aave-powered asset-backed lending. The company describes the interface as "less crypto-forward," aiming for "a much broader audience."
A company with "Ether" in its name now wants you to feel less like it has anything to do with Ethereum.
Ether.fi's latest app update adds tokenized stocks, tokenized precious metals, and Aave-powered portfolio lending—letting users borrow against their existing asset positions, with the tech plugging directly into the Aave lending protocol. The company is framing this update as a "neobank" expansion, signaling its ambition to look more like a digital bank than a crypto app.
Ether.fi itself describes the updated app as "less crypto-forward"—in plain terms, less crypto-flavored. The company says this shift is meant to attract "a much broader audience," people who may have previously been put off by an interface that felt too crypto-heavy.
Stocks, precious metals, and lending aren't new on their own—banking apps have offered these for ages. What actually matters here is who's doing it and how it's packaged. When a product that built its name on on-chain assets deliberately strips away its own "crypto-ness," that decision itself is a product statement: a crypto shell might not be the asset that retains new users after all.
That's all the public information available for now. Details like the rollout timeline, asset coverage, and lending terms have yet to be disclosed by the company.
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