Lending


Markets

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.

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Finance

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.

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Finance

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.

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Finance

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.

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Tech

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.

Stani Kulechov, Lens founder, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk archive)

Finance

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.

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Opinion

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.

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Policy

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%.

BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

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.

Source: Blockware Solutions

Finance

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.

El Salvador (Esaú González, Unsplash)