What is crypto lending and how does it work?

Key takeaways  Crypto lending blends blockchain innovation with traditional finance, offering high returns and easy access to credit. But serious risks, from hacks to volatility, demand transparencyThe post What is crypto lending and how does it work? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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This Firm Launched Crypto Lending Services in Anticipation of a Bitcoin ETF Approval

Former Cantor Fitzgerald execs launch Tokenet, aiming to revitalize crypto lending with traditional finance safeguards, aligning with the expected demand from upcoming spot Bitcoin ETFs and promising market recovery.

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Cameron Winklevoss to DCG Amid Their Crypto Lending Fight: 'Good Luck' Convincing a Jury

His Gemini crypto exchange and conglomerate Digital Currency Group are battling – in and out of court – over the failure of Gemini's Earn lending service.

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Bridgecoin Capital unveils lending platform for lending crypto into real estate assets

The Bridgecoin Capital lending platform will lend customers’ crypto into traditional real estate assets. The new lending platform enables investors to defer their crypto gains tax, while simultaneously diversifying their portfolio and generating passive income.

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Bitget debuts in lending with the launch of ‘Crypto Loans’

Bitget launched its native “Crypto Loans” product on Tuesday. Digital lending is expected to advance at a CAGR of 20. 5%. Singapore and Thailand have recently banned crypto lending. Bitget – a Seychelles-based digital assets trading platform launched “Crypto Loans” to debut in the lending space on Tuesday.

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Bringing community-based solutions to crypto lending can solve trust issues

The crypto lending space is plagued with trust and security concerns, but crypto lending platform BNPL Pay offers an innovative community-based lending solution.

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Breaking: CEL Token Plunges as Celsius CEO Resigns

Alex Mashinsky's resignation came after the embattled crypto lending firm filed for bankruptcy in mid-July

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Thai SEC intends to ban crypto lending in the country

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand is preparing to take radical measures in the aftermath of the summer’s crypto lending platforms’ crashes.

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Top 5 Lending & Borrowing Tokens Below $70M Market Capitalization

Instead of just keeping all your crypto assets idle, you can use other ways to grow them. This is called crypto lending. It works just like traditional lending, but now with interest. Simply, it involves lending your cryptocurrency and receiving regular interest returns over time.

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Crisis in crypto lending shines light on industry vulnerabilities

Leading crypto lending firms and hedge funds have run into trouble due to the market turmoil but more so because of their unchecked reckless decision-making process.

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Powers On… The SEC takes reactionary moves against crypto lending

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Crypto Lending Has Become a Pillar of the Cryptosphere

The evolution of crypto lending is continuing at pace, with new projects regularly coming onstream. These platforms, most of which exist in the decentralized finance (DeFi) realm, offer users the ability to obtain loans without having to contend with intermediaries and accept counterparty risk.

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Crypto lending volumes set record as Ethereum DeFi tokens surge

Crypto lending is back in vogue.

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Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Partners With BlockFi to Expand Crypto Lending Service

Poolin, the second biggest bitcoin mining pool by total network power, is expanding its crypto lending and financial services businesses.

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Crypto lending market sees substantial momentum going into 2020

Crypto lending has been an investor favorite more than any other product in the cryptocurrency market. One of the exchanges to enter quite early in the lending space was Genesis Global trading which wThe post Crypto lending market sees substantial momentum going into 2020 appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Crypto Lending: The Solution to Banking Woes?

With the rapid growth of the cryptocurrency space, more and more niches and industries are seeing legitimate disruption from startups and projects leveraging blockchain. One such example is finance, or more specifically, lending.

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Crypto Funds, Lending and Market Manipulation

The growing practice of asset lending by crypto hedge funds could add systemic risk to the sector if we are not vigilant, argues Noelle Acheson.

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Borrow with Bitcoin or lend with Litecoin? Crypto lending is set to boom.

One of the strongest emerging narratives in crypto is the sudden rise of cryptocurrency lending platforms. Multiple new platforms have launched and the demand for their services is growing. What is crypto lending and who are the major players?

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Celsius Network partners with Staked to offer crypto yield starting with DASH

CryptoNinjas Celsius Network, the cryptocurrency lending, and borrowing platform, today announced its partnership with Staked, which helps investors increase their crypto returns via staking and lending.

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$60 Million and Rising: China’s Crypto Funds Try Lending to Beat Bear Market

Investors such as Bixin Capital, FBG Capital and Dong Zhao’s DGroup have been lending tens of millions of dollars in crypto since the fall.

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Crypto Lending 101: Earning Interest on Ether (ETH) with Dharma

On April 8, 2019, Dharma officially launched their crypto interest and lending platform. According to a Medium post from the startup, users can earn interest on their dai (DAI) and ether (ETH) holdings at rates of eight and 2.

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Fintech Platform Expands by Offering Wallets and Exchange Tools for ‘Crypto Spring’

A crypto lending platform is expanding its offering to wallets and crypto-fiat conversions, and says suggestions from its community are driving its new features. #SPONSORED

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Brock Pierce Buys Church With Crypto Mortgage

Just when you thought April Fools’ day was safely behind you, the blockchain space throws out another headline so wacky it seems to have been drafted on a Mad-Lib. According to a cryptocurrency lending company, former child actor Brock Pierce has acquired an old church in Amsterdam, by leveraging his holdings through a smart-contract mortgage.

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Is Coinbase Becoming A Crypto Bank?

Bitcoin’s inception was a direct response to the banks which precipitated the financial crisis in 2007. These financial institutions issued high-risk sub-prime mortgages to individuals unable to make consistent monthly payments, used fractional reserve lending for extreme over-leverage, and facilitated a global crisis following the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

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Crypto Lender Dharma Officially Launches on Ethereum Blockchain

Dharma, the lending startup with backing from Coinbase and Polychain, wants to make peer-to-peer crypto loans accessible to all.

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Nitrogen Network: Decentralized Secured Loans Platform?

What Is Nitrogen Network? Nitrogen is a decentralized P2P network for secured loans, where users can earn interest by lending. On the platform, users can find someone to “rent” their crypto assets on their terms, with their collateral held safely by a smart contract as an escrow agent. Nitrogen also allows users to borrow assets to […]

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Interest-yielding stablecoins drive crypto competition with fiat

Interest-yielding stablecoins and lending partnerships bring new possibilities to crypto.

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interest-yielding stablecoins drive crypto competition with fiat

Interest-yielding stablecoins and lending partnerships bring new possibilities to crypto.

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Atomic Capital Goes On The Attack With New Crypto Loan Offer In The Market

Atomic Capital Makes A Very Aggressive Loan Offer In The Crypto Market The asset tokenization company, Atomic Capital, is making a very aggressive loan offer in the crypto lending field. Back on Wednesday, the firm will be giving USD loans for 85% of the value of the Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH) used as collateral. […]

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Atomic Capital Makes Crypto’s Most Aggressive Lending Offer Yet

Atomic Capital is offering to lend up to 85 percent of the value of clients' bitcoin or ether, at double-digit interest rates.

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CoinLoan, Paytomat Allow Mainstream Investors To Dabble In Tokens Without Necessarily Spending Crypto

CoinLoan And Paytomat Collabo Has Made It Possible For Mainstream Investors To Dabble In Tokens Without Necessarily Spending Crypto Putting your money in one of the many promising up-and-coming blockchain-powered startups is now possible without you having to exchange your hard-earned crypto assets for them.

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Crypto Lending: Quick and Easy Way to Multiply Your Portfolio (and Protect it)

The moment the crypto community has been waiting for has finally arrived, (for now). Out of nowhere, Bitcoin has demolished resistance levels and the crypto market is showing bullish signals. In times like these, your portfolio will multiply by itself, but if you really want the most out of this bull run, let’s see how crypto lending can help.

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Decentralized Platform Launches New Features as Demand for Crypto Lending Increases

A decentralized crypto lending platform has expanded the range of stablecoins that can be used for collateral as demand for loans rises #SPONSORED

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Celsius Network and Battlestar Capital launch new crypto staking service

CryptoNinjas Battlestar Capital, a financial services company specializing in staking, security and strategy and Celsius Network one of the largest crypto lending platforms in the market, today have launched a new crypto staking service with yields of up to 30 percent for their passive.

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CredEarn Offers Eight Percent Interest On Unused Crypto

Bond yields are falling, and savings accounts can barely keep up with inflation, but there are other ways to put your money to work. As crypto-finance continues to evolve, blockchain companies are providing new products with lucrative profits–and interest.

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Coindcx Indian Crypto Exchange Launches New Lending Program For BTC, USDT, BNB, XRP And ETH

Indian Cryptocurrency Exchange Launches New Lending Program In Virtual Currencies Coindcx, a recognized Indian cryptocurrency exchange, has launched a new program that allows users to earn interest on their digital assets that they hold on the exchange.

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Indian Exchange Launches Lending Program for 5 Cryptocurrencies

An Indian crypto exchange has launched a program that allows its users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies held at the exchange. Initially, users can lend BTC, USDT, BNB, XRP, and ETH. The CEO of the exchange has shared details about this new offering with news.

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New Interest-Yielding BlockFi Accounts Gather $25 Million from Investors for Institutional Borrowers

Even before the emergence of BlockFi, the crypto marketplace had welcomed a host of crypto-backed lending startups. Some had even announced a lot of irresistible offers, including zero-interest loans for all and instant disbursement of funds.

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$25 Million in 2 Weeks: BlockFi Booms as Bitcoin, Ether Investors Seek Interest

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince explains in depth how the startup manages the myriad risks of lending and borrowing crypto.

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$25 Million in 2 Weeks: BlockFi Booms as Bitcoin and Ether Investors Seek Interest

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince explains in depth how the startup manages the myriad risks of lending and borrowing crypto.

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Lending Your Crypto: Risks And Rewards Of Virtual Asset-Based Finance

The idea has merit. But know the risks and what happens when borrowers default.

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Alendoo ICO

Alendoo’s main mission is to keep their customers anonymity. It was necessary for the company to ‘think outside the box’ to fulfil its existing promises to customers and find a way to extend their offering by adding Loans paid out in FIATs.

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Altonomy CoFounder Touches on the Impact of On-Chain Crypto Lending and Borrowing Services

Distributed ledger technology is a much-discussed area due to its ability to transform traditional banking, especially in areas of lending and borrowing. Two specific areas that such technology works to resolve in the banking industry is liquidity and application of legal actions.

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Nexo offering insurance for custodial crypto assets up to $100M

CryptoNinjas Nexo, a cryptocurrency based ecosystem for lending, today announced it will offer insurance to clients for the crypto assets they hold in their Nexo Wallets. The policy covers up to $100,000,000.

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On-chain Crypto Lending: The Path to the Mainstream By Ricky Li, Co-Founder & Head of North America, Altonomy

Credit Is Key To On-Chain Lending

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Ex-Bitmain Bitcoin Cash Staffers Form Startup to Lend and Trade Crypto

A startup formed by former Bitmain employees will offer crypto custody, OTC trading and lending.

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Are Bitcoin and Ethereum Cryptocurrency Compound Interest Rate Earnings a Gamechanger?

Despite the price of premier alt-tokens such as Bitcoin still struggling to garner bullish momentum, crypto lending platform BlockFi has just announced that it will be now providing clients with the option to claim compound interest returns on investments via crypto assets such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. As per a blog post issued by BlockFi’s […]

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Bitcoin Community Members Speaks Up About Dual Nature of BlockFi’s Earning Crypto Interest Bank

BlockFi has seen support from major investors for their crypto opportunities, like Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital. With $52. 5 million in support from these investors, they have been able to launch a product like none other – the option to gain 6.

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Crypto Lending Company BlockFi Launches Crypto Accounts With Bitcoin, Ethereum Support

Accounts bearing 6 percent annual interest paid monthly in crypto have been launched by crypto wealth management and lending company BlockFi

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