Collaboration to Pilot Institutional-Grade Clearing of Yield Products Benchmarking TESR Curve

Zug, Switzerland – August 21, 2025  – Pascal Protocol, the team behind the Smart Clearing Protocol and institutional trading platform Jetstream, today announced a strategic collaboration with Treehouse, the leading decentralized fixed income layer, to pilot smart clearing for structured yield products.

The Proof of Concept (PoC) will focus on TESR Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs), benchmarked against the Treehouse Ethereum Staking Rate (TESR) Curve — a decentralized, consensus-driven rate established through Treehouse’s Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR) framework. DOR aggregates expert panel inputs and on-chain market data to deliver transparent and reliable benchmark rates for DeFi.

Through this partnership, Treehouse’s innovative fixed income suite will integrate Pascal’s programmable clearing and settlement infrastructure, enabling institutional-grade execution, risk netting, and margin efficiency. The pilot aims to validate how clearing logic — long the backbone of TradFi — can unlock scalable adoption of decentralized fixed income products.
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“DeFi’s next chapter goes beyond execution. We are establishing the first decentralized clearing infrastructure that capital markets can rely on,” said James Davies, CEO and Co-Founder of Pascal Protocol.

“Pascal’s smart clearing is a natural fit for FRAs based on the benchmarks we’ve built,” added Brandon Goh, CEO of Treehouse.“It’s the missing piece to unlock composability and real-world adoption.”

Institutional Testing and Broader Roadmap

The PoC will be piloted with select institutional partners in the coming quarters, testing:

• Smart clearing of TESR-based Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs)
• Integration of DOR as a benchmark rate standard across DeFi market
• Testing institutional appetite for composable fixed income primitives

This initiative is part of Pascal’s broader roadmap to bring multiple asset classes on-chain, including commodities, energy, and structured products. Built for capital efficiency, Pascal’s atomic clearing engine delivers real-time margining and trustless risk management — capabilities essential for professional markets.

Positioning Ahead of Pascal’s Token Generation Event (TGE)

This partnership comes as Pascal prepares for its upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE) in early September 2025, introducing the $PASC token. The TGE expands Pascal’s role from trading infrastructure to a full-spectrum clearing protocol for Web3 capital markets, with staking and governance features designed to reward long-term participation and support ecosystem growth.

The timing underscores Pascal’s momentum: alongside the Treehouse PoC, Jetstream’s live derivatives platform already processes institutional-grade trades with Pascal’s clearing logic. Together, these milestones illustrate how Pascal is building the clearing layer that DeFi and TradFi institutions alike can build upon.

By reducing counterparty risk and delivering capital efficiency, Pascal’s clearing infrastructure aims
to make institutional adoption of decentralized fixed income both safer and more scalable.

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About Pascal Protocol

Pascal Protocol is pioneering the future of institutional DeFi with the Smart Clearing Protocol — a programmable, atomic settlement layer purpose-built for capital markets. Pascal delivers trustless, high-performance clearing infrastructure for derivatives, yield products, and complex financial flows across decentralized networks.
From fixed income to commodities and energy, Pascal is the unified clearing protocol bringing multiple asset classes on-chain.
Pascal is unlocking capital efficiency at scale for traders, protocols, and institutions.

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About Treehouse

Treehouse, a digital assets infrastructure firm and the decentralized arm of the parent company
Treehouse Labs, is at the forefront of revolutionizing the decentralized fixed income market.
Its flagship products include tETH, a liquid staking token, and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR), a consensus framework for benchmark rate setting, to enable fixed income products and primitives in digital assets.
Treehouse is dedicated to creating safer and more predictable yield alternatives for both institutional and individual investors.

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