Zarban is a knowledge-based product and a non-custodial crypto lending and savings protocol that runs on Arbitrum. Users can lock their crypto as collateral and draw cash against it without selling, or mint the ZAR stablecoin; they can also put an idle balance into the lending pool and earn from the fees borrowers pay. The keys to your assets stay with you at every step, and no central party ever has access to them.

Zarban was founded in 2020 with a goal beyond building a simple financial platform: to give Iranian users a trusted route into decentralised finance, free of intermediaries and the limits of centralised services. After several years of development, the Zarban protocol went live on Arbitrum mainnet in 2023. Since then, a deep understanding of the needs of Iranian users has guided every release, with a constant focus on lowering the barrier to DeFi and addressing the shortcomings of both foreign platforms and domestic services.