Beta Finance

[Beta Finance](https://www.coinlive.com/coin/beta-finance) is a permissionless money market on [Ethereum](https://www.coinlive.com/coin/ethereum) for borrowing, lending and shorting crypto assets. It allows users to access a scalable and accessible money market where tokens can be listed permissionlessly and automatically and where users can short these tokens. Beta Finance plans to launch on additional [layer one](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/layer-1-blockchain) and [layer two](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/layer-2) solutions after its Ethereum Mainnet launch. Users have three options: lending, borrowing and shorting. Lenders will be able to lend crypto assets for any market that exists on Beta Finance and earn interest on it. Borrowers can take the contrary position, while short-sellers are able to use collateral to initiate short positions. Unlike [centralized exchanges](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/centralized-exchange-cex), Beta Finance does not use an order book to execute shorts but routes the trade through decentralized exchanges that use [automated market makers](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/automated-market-maker-amm). As part of its Phase 2 launch, the platform plans to release permissionless money market creation.