# Glow Finance

> Trade, Borrow, Earn, and Restake on Glow, a new liquidity hub for Solana

Glow Finance helps DeFi users maximize capital efficiency by providing advanced lending and liquid restaking tools on Solana.

Glow Finance helps DeFi users maximize capital efficiency and optimize yield strategies by providing advanced lending, margin accounts, and liquid restaking infrastructure on Solana. Users can earn yields through pooled lending, execute leveraged strategies via pre-built recipes, and stake SOL through glowSOL liquid restaking. It distinguishes itself through integrated margin accounts that allow users to combine multiple yield mechanisms without moving assets between protocols.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2025-04-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/glow_finance

## Products

- [Glow Finance](https://thegrid.id/profiles/glow_finance): Glow Finance implements cross-margin lending architecture through isolated margin accounts, enabling leveraged positions and automated yield strategies. The system integrates pooled lending with external protocol adapters while maintaining composability across the Solana ecosystem through pre-built recipe strategies. (Decentralised Borrowing & Lending, Live, Main Product)
- [Glow Restaking](https://thegrid.id/profiles/glow_finance): Glow Restaking implements liquid staking through Solayer infrastructure, enabling SOL staking while maintaining asset liquidity. The system issues glowSOL tokens that represent staked positions and earn restaking yields through Solayer's validator network. (Liquid Staking, Live)

## Assets

- [glowSOL (glowSOL)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/glow_finance): glowSOL is a liquid staking token representing staked SOL on Glow Finance, issued through Solayer's infrastructure. It is used to earn staking yields and AVS rewards while holders also accumulate both Glow and Solayer points. The token wraps sSOL (Solayer's liquid restaking token), allowing users to maintain liquidity while participating in leveraged restaking strategies within Glow's margin account system. (Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs))

## Links

- [Main](https://www.glowfinance.xyz)
- [Blog](https://www.glowfinance.xyz/blog)
- [Documentation](https://docs.glowfinance.xyz/Overview/welcome)
- [Privacy policy](https://glowfinance.xyz/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://glowfinance.xyz/terms-of-use)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/GlowFinanceXYZ)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/glowfinance)

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