Lending


Markets

Lending Protocol Aave Processes $200M in Liquidation Without Adding to Bad-Debt Burden

Aave aced the market's stress test, processing millions in liquidations without taking on new bad debt.

Aave processed millions in liquidations Monday. (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

MARA Holdings Lends Out 7,377 BTC to Generate Single Digit Yield

The bitcoin miner holds 44,893 BTC on its balance sheet, it said in a production report.

MARA Holdings to Generate Single Digit Yield on 7,377 BTC (Bradley Keoun/CoinDesk)

Tech

Aave Gauges Community Interest for Expansion to Bitcoin Layer 2 Spiderchain

The potential deployment on a Bitcoin layer 2 by the largest DeFi lending protocol highlights the appetite for harnessing the original blockchain for purposes that are commonplace elsewhere in the crypto ecosystem.

Spiderchain, a Bitcoin layer 2 blockchain. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Institutional Investors Position for Bitcoin Volatility Into the U.S. Election

Some $350 million notional value of November call options traded on CME with a breakeven bitcoin price of nearly $80,000, anticipating a rally next month, one analyst noted.

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Markets

'High-Risk' Crypto Loans Surge to a Two-Year High of $55M on Benqi: IntoTheBlock

The total amount of crypto-collateralized loans within 5% of their liquidation price is at its highest in over two years.

High-risk USD loans. (IntoTheBlock)

Finance

RWA Platform Credbull Rolls Out Up to $500M Private Credit Fund with Fixed High Yield on Plume Network

Private credit, a booming market in traditional finance, is a fast-growing sector in the blockchain-based real-world asset sector as well with $9 billion of assets, data shows.

Jason Delphi, Credbull CEO (Credbull)

Finance

Three Ways DeFi Will Revolutionize Financial Services

DeFi is poised to create a future where financial services are digital, open, always-on, and borderless, says Bill Barhydt, CEO, Abra.

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Finance

Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase

The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Finance

Celsius' Bankruptcy Plan Administrator Pays Out Over $2.5B

The distributions were made in liquid cryptocurrency and cash at Jan. 16 prices to roughly two-thirds of all eligible creditors by number and 93% by value.

Money (Alexander Mils/Unsplash)

Opinion

After 2022’s Bust, Scars Are Healing In Crypto Lending

Innovative structures, attractive yields, and stronger risk management capabilities are driving a recovery in institutional crypto lending markets, says Craig Birchall, head of product at Membrane, an institutional loan management software provider for digital asset markets.

(Igor Kyryliuk & Tetiana Kravchenko/ Unsplash+)