Venus

Venus is the main lending and borrowing protocol on BNB Chain, a Compound-style money market that is also deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum and other networks. It issues the VAI stablecoin and is governed by XVS holders.

Rating B: 1 restriction: Feature Block. Lending · BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, opBNB, zkSync, Optimism, Unichain.

Official app: app.venus.io. Frontend code: github.com/VenusProtocol/venus-protocol-interface/tree/main/apps/evm.

Restrictions

• Geo Block: no.
• Feature Block: yes. per-asset restrictedCountries from the Venus API; country from free.freeipapi.com; gated assets (bStocks) need acknowledgement.
• Wallet screening: no.
• VPN / Tor detection: no.
• Asset filter: restricted/gated assets.
• Terms of Service: app.venus.io/#/terms-of-use, Last updated 2025-09-18. main ToS: generic; FTV: US, UK, CA, CN, CU, IR, KP, SY, RU, BY, occupied UA regions.

Notes

Country from a free IP API (freeipapi.com), per-asset country lists from the Venus API. URL note: now venus.io.

Live checks

• WebFetch (US): 302 -> venus.io, JS shell

Evidence

• apps/evm/src/clients/api/queries/useGetIpLocation/getIpLocation/index.ts
• apps/evm/src/clients/api/queries/useGetPools/applyCountryCodeToPools/index.ts

Checked 2026-10-10. All interfaces · Methodology