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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.
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Guangdong Blockchain Financing Platform Aims to Help Small Business
A new platform backed by Guangdong province aims to streamline the process for commercial banks to lend funds to small businesses with more detailed and reliable profiles prov...
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Genesis CEO Michael Moro
Genesis Clocks Quarterly Surge in Cash and Stablecoin Lending
For the first time this year, BTC-denominated loans now represent less than 60 percent of Genesis' portfolio.
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Ledn team
Lock BTC, Get DAI: Lending Firm Bridges Bitcoin-DeFi Divide in Latin America
Ledn is partnering with MakerDAO to bring the ethereum-backed stablecoin DAI to more users in Latin America.
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Bitrue Exchange to Launch Crypto-Backed Loan Platform
The service, which goes live on Sept. 30, loans BTC, ETH XRP and USDT at a 0.04% daily interest rate.
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Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky
How Celsius Turned Its Crypto ICO Into a Billion-Dollar Lending Business
Lending startup Celsius went from a $50 million token sale to $1 billion in crypto deposits.
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky

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Crypto Lenders Have Earned Just 2% on $4.7 Billion in Loans: Report
A new report from credit assessment startup Graychain shows that demand for crypto loans is surging, but lenders aren't making much profit.
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Crypto Loans Firm Left Thousands of Users' Financial Data Exposed
Crypto loans platform YouHodler left a database with millions of logs containing users' private financial data unprotected, researchers found.
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Arrington-backed Crypto Loans Firm to Accept Telegram's Token as Collateral
Crypto loans firm Nexo says it will accept the gram ICO token from Telegram as collateral. Trouble is, the tokens may not be available for some time.
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Bitbond Plans to Raise $3.9 Million in Germany's 'First' Regulated STO
Blockchain-based lending platform Bitbond says its security token offering is the first to be approved by a regulator in Germany.
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