Compound vs Kamino

Compound4.0/5

VS

Kamino4.0/5

Feature	CompoundVisit	KaminoVisit
Ratings
Our score	4.0/5	4.0/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Security & track record	4.5	4.0
Rates	4.0	4.0
Market depth	3.5	4.5
Ease of use	4.0	4.0
Decentralization	4.0	3.5
Specs
KYC required	No	Not disclosed
Lending model	Isolated markets	Pooled
Chains	Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base	Solana
Main collateral assets	ETH, WBTC, USDC, USDT	Not disclosed
Flash loans	No	Not disclosed
Permissionless markets	No	Not disclosed
Audited	Yes	Yes
Bug bounty	Yes	Not disclosed
Governance token	COMP	KMNO
Isolated markets	Yes	Not disclosed
Real-world-asset collateral	No	Not disclosed
Own stablecoin	No	Not disclosed
Rates	Variable	Variable and fixed
Company
Founded	2017	2022
Headquarters	—	United States
Investors	Dragonfly, Polychain Capital, a16z crypto	Alliance, ParaFi Capital
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Audited by OpenZeppelin and ChainSecurity with a $1M bug bounty Processed $480B in all-time deposits and borrows since 2018 No KYC required to supply or borrow on standard markets Active on Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum	Over $1.3B in TVL and $909M in active loans on Solana in October 2026 Processed more than $650B in cumulative volume across four years of operation Offers fixed-rate borrowing alongside variable pooled lending markets
Cons	Lacks an umbrella safety module to cover protocol-wide bad debt Borrow rates vary with base-asset pool utilization Does not support permissionless market creation by users Borrowing is restricted to only one designated base asset per pool	Operates exclusively on Solana with no native deployments on other chains Collateral is exposed to automated liquidations during high-volatility events Smart contracts carry exploit risks across multiple complex yield and vault primitives Variable borrowing rates can spike rapidly during liquidity contractions
Best for	USDC and WETH borrowers, Suppliers avoiding rehypothecation risk, Users seeking yield on supported EVM networks	Solana crypto asset borrowers, DeFi liquidity providers seeking automated compounding, Traders using leveraged yield loops

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