Crypto Lending

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Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin and Lending
Bitcoin’s emergence in collateral structures has the potential to revolutionize the lending landscape. Its ability to mitigate credit risk amid escalating uncertainties highli...
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Crypto Lender Ledn Handed Out $1.16B Worth of Loans in First Half of 2024
The platform witnessed a 29.8% jump in retail lending between the first and second quarters.
Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds. (Ledn)

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Wall Street's Cantor Fitzgerald to Open Bitcoin Financing, Lending Business
The financial services company will start with $2 billion in lending.
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Stablecoins Can Help Fix the Current Lending Market
The Global Financial Crisis reduced the depth of capital markets. Blockchain-based stablecoins can help fill the gap, say Christine Cai and Sefton Kincaid, of Cicada Partners.
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7 Predictions About the Crypto Lending Landscape in 2024
From the emergence of TradFi arbitrage interest to the winnowing of decentralized exchanges, Ledn co-founder Mauricio Di Bartolomeo predicts the changes that may follow the re...
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Ledn's Mauricio Di Bartolomeo argues that the crypto lending industry can rebuild trust following a disastrous 2022. (Mathieu Stern/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
Crypto Lenders Caused Crypto Contagion Last Year. How Is the Industry Rebuilding?
The "Wild West" era of crypto lending ended in a series of bankruptcies. Now the industry is attempting to rebuild in a sustainable and accountable manner.
Ledn's Mauricio Di Bartolomeo argues that the crypto lending industry can rebuild trust following a disastrous 2022. (Mathieu Stern/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Solana-Based Crypto Lending Platform Jet Pivots to Fixed-Rate Term Lending
The project's new model uses an order book to match borrowers and lenders, relying on a market-based mechanism to set interest rates.
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Rehypothecation May Be Common in Traditional Finance, but It Will Never Work With Bitcoin
Several crypto lenders, exchanges and funds that used customer assets to grow rapidly had a crash course in the limits of digital scarcity in 2022.
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Belgian Crypto Lender Bit4You Suspends Activities After Service Provider Declared Insolvent
Bit4You learned of CoinLoan's insolvency on April 24, and that it no longer has the necessary registration as a digital asset custodian.
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Credit Agency Giant TransUnion Will Deliver Credit Scores for Crypto Lending
TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications in a way that maintains the privacy of consumer...
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