DeFi plays a crucial role in the growth and adoption of the Zilliqa network, and the recent launch of Ionise marks a major step towards building up a flourishing ecosystem of DeFi apps on the blockchain. As the first-ever money market protocol built on Zilliqa EVM, Ionise paves the way for other projects to follow, demonstrating how simple it is to deploy battle-tested EVM applications on Zilliqa. “Ionise shows that you can build a DeFi product using EVM. It will work and you can use it - the team has shown that in the simplest way possible,” says Anton Agafonov, Head of Product at Zilliqa. To learn more about how Ionise can be a blueprint for EVM dApps on Zilliqa, read our full interview with Anton: http://blog.zilliqa.com/how-ionise-paves-the-way-for-better-defi-on-zilliqa/