Venus ETH

Venus ETH puts Ether into the lending layer of DeFi, so it is aimed at users who want ETH exposure inside a borrowing market. By our assessment, the attraction is that it lets ETH do more than sit in a wallet, and that is exactly the sort of thing Venus is built around. The cost is familiar to anyone using these market tokens: you are no longer dealing with plain ETH alone, but with the extra risk and extra rules of the protocol. In practice that means more steps, more attention to balances, and less simplicity than holding ETH directly. Compared with the base asset, it is a specialist form, useful inside Venus and much less interesting outside it. Venus ETH is best for people who already understand DeFi lending; for everyone else, the ordinary ETH is cleaner and easier to read.