Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial, open-source lending protocol that provides autonomous fixed and variable interest rate markets for depositing and borrowing crypto assets. Exactly's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #36,720 (top 10%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Exactly began development in July 2021, launched on Ethereum Mainnet in November 2022, and expanded to Optimism in March 2023. The protocol is currently deployed on Base, OP Mainnet, and Ethereum, and is affiliated with Exa Labs SAS. Its governance token, EXA, grants holders voting rights over system changes, smart contract upgrades, and the protocol treasury. In August 2023, the protocol suffered a hack on Optimism via a DebtManager exploit, resulting in approximately $7.2 million in losses, as recorded by DefiLlama.
Exactly has raised a total of $7 million across three funding rounds, including a $3 million seed round in August 2021, a $2 million private round in January 2023, and a further $2 million round in March 2025. Backers include Kaszek, NXTP Ventures, Daedalus, BairesDAO, Newtopia VC, 6th Man Ventures, Bodhi Ventures, and Uphold, alongside angel investors including Kain Warwick as co-founder of Synthetix, Esteban Ordano as co-founder of Decentraland, and Matias Woloski as co-founder of Auth0. The protocol's smart contracts have been audited by ABDK, Chainsafe, Coinspect, Cryptecon, Hashlock, OpenZeppelin, Quantstamp, and Sherlock, and Exactly has partnered with Immunefi for a bug bounty program. Exactly has published 1,626 posts and has been mentioned by 54 accounts a total of 179 times.
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Exactly draws a following from across the decentralized finance space. The accounts that follow Exactly include 101 founders, 31 angel investors, 54 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Kain, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, DEGEN NEWS, Antonio Garca Martnez agm.eth, Cuy Sheffield and Jane Spencer.