IBond Standard Proposes Fixed-Rate Bond Interface Extending ERC-20 for Zero-Coupon Payments at Maturity: When Ethereum Tries to Build Wall Street's Most Boring Product on the World's Most Volatile Chain
The proposal appeared on the Ethereum Magicians forum in September 2026 with the patient optimism of developers who had watched stablecoin yields collapse, DeFi lending rates swing 500% in a week, and decided that what Ethereum really needed was a fixed-rate bond. IBond proposes