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Finance

Onramp and Arch Launch Bitcoin-Backed Lending Service

The new lending product allows Bitcoin holders to access liquidity without selling their assets.

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Finance

Metaplanet Arranges Loan to Buy $6.8M of BTC

The Japanese company announced its plan to adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset to hedge against the volatility of the yen in May.

Tokyo, Japan (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)

Opinion

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)

Opinion

DeFi Died and We Didn’t Even Notice

The behavior of Curve founder Michael Egorov is warning to all, and proof that DeFi isn’t really that different from traditional finance.

Curve founder Michael Egorov was liquidated, again. (Michael Egorov, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Warns of Default, Looks to Amend BlockFi Loan

The outstanding $20 million loan is secured by only $5 million in assets.

(Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

BlackRock Gives Bankrupt Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific New $17M Loan

BlackRock, which already was Core's largest shareholder, previously held $37.9 million of the miner's secured convertible notes.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific's Lender Wants to Give Miner $72M to Avoid Bankruptcy

Investment bank B Riley said most of the struggling miner's issues are "self-imposed and can be corrected."

Core Scientific CEO Mike Levitt (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Trader Auros Global Misses Payment on DeFi Loan as FTX Contagion Spreads

The company missed payment on a 2,400 wrapped ether loan worth $3 million from a M11 Credit pool on Maple Finance.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Faces Default Claim on $103M of Equipment Loans

The company has said it will default on the debt Tuesday unless it can reach a restructuring agreement with its lender.

El bear market afectó los precios de minería de bitcoin. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

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