Lending
Crypto.com Slashes Card Rewards, CRO Drops 11% as Community Reacts
In addition, staking rewards would no longer be offered to cardholders after the completion of the current 180-day period.

NBA Top Shot Whale Launches NFT Lending Platform With $4.5M in Funding
Flowty is a peer-to-peer NFT lending platform built on the Flow blockchain.

RociFi Labs Raises $2.7M to Enable On-Chain Credit Scoring for DeFi
The P2P lending protocol uses on-chain data, machine learning and decentralized identity information to calculate a non-fungible credit score for potential borrowers.

Katie Haun’s New Fund Joins $10M Round for Polkadot Lending Protocol Moonwell
The project will enable users to take out over-collateralized loans on Polkadot’s EVM-compatible Moonbeam parachain.

DeFi Platform Aave Lauches Version 3 With Cross-Chain Swaps Front and Center
The latest version of the Aave protocol focuses on risk management and capital efficiency.

NY Fed Staffer Jumps Into DeFi as Euler COO
A permissionless lending protocol has brought on a former Federal Reserve employee in a key position.

Lender Beware: The Potential DeFi Tax Trap
Uncle Sam may collect tax on every loan and repayment of cryptocurrency, which may catch users by surprise, creating a tax trap that could impair the rapidly emerging DeFi industry. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Tax Week.

BlockFi Will Pay $100M in Settlement With SEC, State Regulators Over High-Yield Accounts: Report
The company has been under investigation since at least November over the lending product, which offers yields as high as 9.5%.

CoinList Aims to Reduce Miners’ Capital Costs With Low Collateral Filecoin Loans
The new lending service will require miners to put up as little as 10% collateral of the total loan value, helping them expand more quickly.

El Salvador Plans to Offer Crypto-Based Loans for SMEs
The government will launch a first line of $10 million provided by the Solana-based lending platform Acumen in the first quarter of 2022.

