zkLend is a decentralized money-market protocol native to Starknet, co-founded by Jane Ma and Brian Fu to bring permissionless and institutional lending to the Starknet L2 ecosystem. zkLend's Twitter Score is 51 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #17,783 (top 5%) among 483,508 tracked accounts.
zkLend offers two distinct lending products: Artemis, a permissionless market open to all users, and Apollo, a permissioned solution designed for institutional participants. The protocol's native token, ZEND, serves governance functions, powers booster rate rewards, and entitles holders to a share of interest income. zkLend raised $5 million in a seed round announced in March 2022, led by Delphi Ventures and anchored by StarkWare and Three Arrows Capital, with additional backing from Alameda Research, DCVC, Amber Group, Fourth Revolution Capital, SkyVision Capital, Genesis Block Ventures, MetaCartel DAO, TPS Capital, Ascensive Assets, and D3Web Capital.
zkLend suffered a significant security incident on February 11, 2025, when an Empty Market Exploit targeting protocol logic resulted in a loss of approximately $9.55 million, as recorded by DefiLlama. The attack occurred on the Starknet chain and represents a material event in the protocol's history. zkLend has published 1,870 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 144 accounts a total of 458 times.
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The accounts that follow zkLend include 177 founders, 59 angel investors, 127 influencers and 12 VCs, among them Eric Wall, Intern, sassal.ethacc, John Wang, Mario Nawfal and Darren Lau.