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Payments Unicorn Square Gets Limited Bank Charter for Merchant Lending
18.3.2020
Square Financial Services was given conditional approval by the FDIC Board for an Industrial Loan Company bank charter on Wednesday
Celsius Network Is Profitable and Resisting Market Downturn, Claims CEO
18.3.2020
Celsius Network founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky noted the Celsius Network’s profitably and resilience amid shaky global markets
Binance Lending Adds Bitcoin Cash to Flexible Deposits Letting Users Earn Interest on BCH
18.3.2020
Bitcoin cash users now have another venue to earn interest on their digital asset holdings. Binance has added support for BCH flexible deposits on its lending platform, alongside ETH and EOS. This development comes just as competition in the crypto lending field is heating up. Also Read: Binance...
Crypto Lending Firm BlockFi Raising Interest Rates on BTC and ETH
18.3.2020
BTC’s and ETH’s interest rates at the crypto lending firm will be increased starting April 1, while some stablecoins’ will remain the same
BlockFi Raises Deposit Rates as Bitcoin Crash Juices Loan Demand
17.3.2020
Market makers and proprietary traders are taking out more crypto loans after the second-largest price drop in bitcoin created a new, more volatile market
MakerDAO Adds USDC as DeFi Collateral Following ‘Black Thursday’ Chaos
17.3.2020
MakerDAO has added a third asset to its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, USD Coin (USDC), in response to the system’s flagship stablecoin, dai, continuing to float above its dollar peg. Passed Tuesday at 2:58 UTC, the Coinbase- and Circle-backed USDC is now available for use as collateral...
ING Backed Hqlax to Target Institutional Investors, Says Platform’s COO
15.3.2020
Hqlax recently received an undisclosed investment from ING, following several years of collaboration on the Hqlax tokenized securities platform
$100M+ in Margin Calls: Crypto Lenders Demand Collateral as Market Buckles
14.3.2020
“As of five minutes ago, everyone who needed to post collateral has,” Genesis CEO Michael Moro said Friday afternoon
ETH Price Strains Defi Collateral Loans as ‘Black Swan’ Event Strikes Makerdao
13.3.2020
The price of ethereum dropping double digits on March 12 sent shockwaves through the decentralized finance (defi) community. Makerdao’s single collateral DAI has been struggling and the low price of ETH has left millions worth of DAI undercollateralized. The defi project’s...
Thursday’s Market Madness Strained Ethereum’s Killer App: DeFi
13.3.2020
So many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended
MakerDAO Debts Grow as DeFi Leader Moves to Stabilize Protocol
13.3.2020
MakerDAO is not pursuing its emergency shutdown option although the amount of uncollateralized dai continues to grow
DeFi Giant MakerDAO Avoiding Shutdown in the Face of Tanking ETH — For Now
12.3.2020
DeFi giant MakerDAO struggles to keep up with tanking Ether price, but developers are avoiding shutdown for now
DeFi Leader MakerDAO Weighs Emergency Shutdown Following ETH Price Drop
12.3.2020
A large drop in the price of ether (ETH) is testing the feasibility of Ethereum's entire system of lending and borrowing
Crypto Lending, Explained
11.3.2020
Earning interest is only one of the opportunities available in the thriving crypto lending ecosystem, making formerly static hodl’d assets more productive #Sponsored
Figure Technologies Securitizes $150M of Home Equity Loans on Blockchain
11.3.2020
The deal may serve as a showcase for DLT’s benefits to Wall Street at a time when such use cases no longer generate the same buzz as five years ago
Blockchain.com Will Allow Retail Wallet Users to Borrow USD Stablecoins With Cryptocurrency
11.3.2020
The digital assets lending field seems to be heating up with Blockchain.com starting to offer lending directly to retail consumers globally. Borrowed USD stablecoins can be used by crypto traders to fund their next trades and thus increase the leverage of their holdings. Also Read: Blockchain.com...
Blockchain.Com Now Offers Crypto Lending Service to All Users
10.3.2020
Blockchain.com now allows retail users to borrow Paxos Standard stablecoin against Bitcoin
Crypto Lending Firm BlockFi Adds Support for Wire Transfers to Buy Crypto
10.3.2020
BlockFi’s users can now send wire transfers to purchase digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ether and USD Coin
Previously Crypto-Only BlockFi Adds Cash On-Ramp Through Silvergate Partnership
10.3.2020
Crypto lender BlockFi now supports cash deposits
Blockchain.com Wallet Users Can Now Borrow Against Their Crypto Holdings
10.3.2020
Users can borrow U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins against bitcoin in their wallets