Lending
BitGo Reveals Bitcoin Lending Push; $150M Booked So Far
With big banks still mostly eschewing the 11-year-old digital-asset industry, a new breed of lenders is stepping into the void to meet the demand. Enter BitGo.
Crypto Lender Babel Hits $380M in Outstanding Loans
Chinese cryptocurrency lending startup Babel Finance said it has reached a record of $380 million in outstanding loans as of February.
Compound Extends DeFi Ethos to Itself, Launches Governance Token
DeFi platform Compound is launching the testnet of a new platform today for decentralizing the site's governance.
Here’s Why Interest Rates on Cryptocurrencies Could Be a Game-Changer
The growth in crypto lending platforms is giving birth to a new type of valuation metric: interest rates.
DeFi Project bZx Exploited for Second Time in a Week, Loses $630K in Ether
The attacker manipulated price feeds in order to create and profit from an under collateralized loan.
Mind the Gap: Why ETH Price and DeFi Adoption Aren't in Sync
Demand for DeFi lending services built on ethereum shows a pattern of inverse relationship to the price of ETH. When ether prices are falling, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi tends to rise. Most recent data indicate the relationship operates the other way, too.
Bitcoin Lender BlockFi Raises $30M in Series B Led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures
Having Hong Kong-based HashKey as an investor will help BlockFi expand into Singapore later this year, said CEO Zac Prince.
How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar
In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.
BlockFi Adjusts Interest Rates to Lure Larger Crypto Deposits
BlockFi recently announced it would make changes to the interest they pay for bitcoin and ether deposits.
Bitfinex Investor's Crypto Lending Startup Posts $2.3M in 2019 Revenue
China-based RenrenBit has disclosed it took $600,000 in net income from revenue of $2.3 million in 2019.
