2025-10-25 19:45 |
Eric Balchunas has shared an important сrypto update revealing JPMorgan’s plans to allow the use of Bitcoin and Ether as collateral for loans. origin »
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Sky, formerly MakerDAO, decided to remove the usage of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) as collateral for borrowing through a governance vote concluded on Sept. 19. BA Labs, the former Risk Core Unit, was named stability advisor for the process.
2024-9-21 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin as an asset is a perfect form of collateral and will likely be used to provide financial backing for mortgages and other forms of debt.
2022-4-14 23:00 | |
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Collateral gains are the only signs of joy for short-term crypto traders on April 4 as Bitcoin and most major assets stay flat.
2022-4-4 17:30 | |
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The term loan from Silvergate Bank can also be used for general corporate purposes.
2022-3-29 16:31 | |
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Bitcoin approaches the high area around its current levels, for the first time since the start of 2022. The cryptocurrency has seen some relief from the macro factors putting selling pressure on its price action, and a new narrative has revigorated the bulls: BTC as pristine collateral.
2022-3-29 21:00 | |
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The Bold card will allow users to spend U.S. dollars on a line of credit collateralized by their bitcoin holdings.
2022-3-23 21:15 | |
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The fintech announced U.S. and non-U.S. customers alike would soon be able to use bitcoin as collateral to invest in real estate.
2022-1-19 21:17 | |
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You may have seen the recent headlines about Coinbase offering million-dollar loans against Bitcoin. This is important – it’s how rich people have always done it – they borrow against their hard assets but never sell them.
2021-12-15 15:10 | |
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The outlook for 2022 is highly bullish for Bitcoin according to Bloomberg Intelligence. In their latest report, BI asserted that Bitcoin appears to be on a trajectory for $100,000 in the coming year even as it heads towards becoming a “global digital collateral.
2021-12-14 19:11 | |
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Cardholders will be able to open a line of credit using crypto's collateral and receive their paychecks into their card account directly and convert it into Bitcoin and Ether. The post Ledger Announces Integration with FTX and Coinbase, Launching Crypto Life Debit Card first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-12-10 17:25 | |
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Fidelity Digital Assets is set to allow its institutional customers to use Bitcoin as collateral against cash loans. This new service is for those BTC investors who want to turn their holdings into cash but don’t want to sell their crypto assets either, said Tom Jessop, president of Fidelity Digital Assets, in a statement this […] The post Big US Banks Exploring Using Bitcoin as Collateral Against Cash Loans, Fidelity Rolls-out the Service for Institutions first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-12-3 16:58 | |
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Goldman Sachs and other tier-one Wall Street financial institutions are seriously considering ways to use bitcoin (BTC) as collateral for cash loans to firms. The price of bitcoin (BTC) has surged by over 190 percent since last year.
2021-12-3 15:00 | |
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Goldman Sachs is among a handful of top-tier banking institutions in the U.S. seeking to take bitcoin as collateral for loans.
2021-12-3 23:36 | |
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Coinbase users can now borrow up to $1 million in cash using their Bitcoin as collateral, this information was revealed via the crypto exchange’s official Twitter handle. The post New Coinbase feature allows Bitcoin as collateral for up to $1 million cash loan appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-11-4 19:00 | |
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Coinbase is now offering loans of up to $1 million to eligible customers, whose Bitcoin will serve as collateral. The post Coinbase Pushing Lending Options With $1M Bitcoin-Backed Loans appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-11-4 19:11 | |
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Banks' BTC holdings could be used for client trading, as collateral for loans, or held as assets in their balance sheets.
2021-10-26 20:06 | |
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A conversation exploring topics from Aaron Segal's "The Revenge Of The Nodes", such as decentralization, declining fiat credit quality, and Bitcoin as pristine collateral.
2021-10-23 21:53 | |
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Bloomberg says Tether has invested billions of dollars of its reserves in Chinese commercial paper and loaned $1 billion to crypto lender Celsius Network with Bitcoin as collateral. The post Tether Slams Bloomberg’s Investigative Report as Pre-Packaged with A Pre-Determined Narrative first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-10-7 18:47 | |
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What is Badger Let’s start with the basics. Badger DAO is an open-source and decentralized project launched in December of 2020 to make Bitcoin easily usable as collateral in the DeFi smart contract space.
2021-10-5 13:10 | |
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Getting a loan from a traditional financial institution is getting harder, and loan applications go through intense scrutiny before sanction. In order to obtain a loan, borrowers have to cross many hurdles such as having a good credit history, high civil score, substantial collateral, and many other issues.
2021-8-18 15:38 | |
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Demex, a decentralized crypto exchange platform launched late last year from the Switcheo team, today announced that ether ETH and bitcoin BTC quarterly futures are now live. Traders can presently open decentralized futures positions with up to 100x leverage – using USDC as collateral.
2021-6-30 18:43 | |
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Crypto trading app, Abra, introduces a fiat borrowing feature using crypto collateral assets. The post Crypto Trading App, Abra Rolls Out Bitcoin & Ethereum-Backed Loans in 35 US States first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-3-25 22:15 | |
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According to the findings of a joint Arcane Research and Bitstamp study, bitcoin’s unique characteristics, which include it being “the most portable asset”, are the likely contributing factors behind the increasing use of the crypto as a collateral asset.
2021-3-4 17:00 | |
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There is also growing demand for Ether among traditional actors entering crypto lending with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, corporations, traditional hedge funds, and family offices wanting to enter the market looking to generate excess yield on idle cash.
2021-2-28 17:29 | |
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Babel Finance is now making life easier for bitcoin (BTC) miners and other crypto market participants. The Hong Kong-based firm is now accepting mining machines from bitcoin miners as collateral for USD loans, according to reports on January 12, 2021.
2021-1-13 02:00 | |
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A clever way for bitcoin miners to get better loan terms.
2021-1-12 05:00 | |
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A curated weekly summary of forward-focused crypto news that matters. This week, MicroStrategy raises over 600 million to buy Bitcoin, Ripple price takes a hit after SPARK airdrop finalized, and Fidelity Digital Assets to accept Bitcoin as collateral for cash loans.
2020-12-14 14:30 | |
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Asset manager Fidelity continues to embrace the premier cryptocurrency. Fidelity Digital to Hold BTC as Collateral for Cash Loan In what comes as the latest impetus for the adoption of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Fidelity Digital recently announced that it would be accepting BTC as collateral for cash loans.
2020-12-11 14:00 | |
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Fidelity Digital Assets will now allow its institutional customers to use their Bitcoin as collateral against cash loans. This new offering has been introduced in partnership with blockchain startup BlockFi, which announced on Wednesday that it is “thrilled” to support “Fidelity’s entrance into the digital asset financing space.
2020-12-11 23:10 | |
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Fidelity Digital says it will allow institutional customers to pledge bitcoin as collateral against cash loans in partnership with Blockfi. The firm’s decision helps bitcoin investors turn their digital holdings into cash without selling.
2020-12-10 12:15 | |
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Fidelity Digital Assets is reportedly partnering with crypto lender BlockFi for the new business angle.
2020-12-9 18:59 | |
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Depositors using Fidelity Digital Assets custody will be able to access liquidity via BlockFi.
2020-12-10 18:41 | |
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Michael Saylor, the CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, continues to publicly speak about bitcoin after his company made a mega $425 million bitcoin purchase. In a live interview on Wednesday with Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal, Saylor called bitcoin the “world’s best collateral”, and said his company is planning to hold the asset for […]
2020-10-25 01:01 | |
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Open-source blockchain network Polkadot has announced that wrapped Bitcoin is coming to its protocol, as PolkaBTC, to enhance true interoperability in blockchain networks in January 2021. PolkaBTC will ensure several guarantees for its holders, including the ability to always redeem PolkaBTC for BTC, get reimbursement at a beneficial rate in the collateral currency, and access […]
2020-10-16 19:45 | |
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There’s a new tokenized bitcoin project coming to the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem that’s recently received $1. 4 million from blockchain investors. The project called Boringdao, a decentralized bridge between Ethereum and alternative blockchains, plans to launch the company’s bBTC tunnel this month in order to introduce another tokenized bitcoin.
2020-10-10 05:00 | |
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Binance exchange has added another important asset to Cross Collaterals- Ethereum [ETH]. Ethereum was the third asset to be added to this list after Bitcoin [BTC] and Binance USD [BUSD]. With EthereumThe post Etheruem becomes the third Cross collateral asset on Binance Futures appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-9-25 16:30 | |
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Global Macro Investor CEO Raoul Pal has explained why he believes bitcoin is better than gold in every way. He proclaims that bitcoin is “the hardest form of money” and “the best reserve asset and best collateral asset ever seen.
2020-9-6 06:45 | |
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The firm claimed 14,654 WBTC in August following approval of its Compound collateral proposal.
2020-9-5 23:04 | |
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Bitcoin is the best collateral the world has ever seen, according to Raoul Pal of Global Macro Investor and Real Vision Group. The Founder/CEO praised the cryptocurrency for its predictability and anti-fragileness as an asset as he pitted it against the government bonds.
2020-9-1 11:26 | |
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It was recently revealed that Coinbase would soon introduce collateral-based loans taken out against Bitcoin holdings in exchange for instant cash. The product is a great move by the crypto exchange, allowing it to compete against BlockFi and others in the lending space.
2020-8-13 20:00 | |
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Coinbase and Square become the latest platforms to venture into the ever-growing crypto lending space. Coinbase revealed a new loan feature that would enable users to borrow cash with Bitcoin as collateral.
2020-8-13 17:00 | |
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US crypto exchange Coinbase is going all out with its crypto offerings ahead of a purported bull run, listing DeFi projects, in-demand altcoins, and now a product for loans using one’s Bitcoin. The post Coinbase to allow Americans to take cash loans with Bitcoin collateral appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-13 11:00 | |
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The leading crypto spot and derivatives exchange platform OKEx has now started to accept the OK Blockchain Foundation’s global utility token OKB as collateral for C2C Loans. Apart from OKB, the platform also accepts collateral deposits in the form of Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), while keeping its options open to expand it further. With […]
2020-7-27 14:09 | |
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Robert Leshner, the founder of Compound, has voted against the latest proposal to increase the WBTC collateral factor on the platform from 0 to 65 percent. The post Founder of Compound votes against using wrapped Bitcoin as collateral, deems WBTC “risky” appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-7-9 06:00 | |
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Bitcoin is infiltrating DeFi, with now over 10,000 BTC locked in Ethereum. Could this growth signal a new role for BTC, as the primary choice of collateral in DeFi? Big...
2020-6-29 19:22 | |
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Nexo, a leading player in the crypto lending sector, recently increased its crypto lending offering. The company, which was the first to offer instant credit lines with crypto as collateral, announced it had added BTC and ETH to its recently-launched Earn on Crypto products.
2020-6-26 03:26 | |
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A huge spike in the bitcoin locked in DeFi has been seen, as it jumps to 4,800k BTC. This has been the result of WBTC, an ERC-20 token backed with bitcoin, making BTC available on the Ethereum network.
2020-5-26 20:49 | |
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Crypto lender Nexo minted $4 million in dai on MakerDAO using synthetic bitcoin token WBTC as collateral. Here's why that matters.
2020-5-21 22:55 | |
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Wrapped Bitcoin aka WBTC is a way of getting Bitcoin on Ethereum, where WBTC is pegged 1:1 with BTC. This is supposedly the future of cryptocurrencies - cross-chain compatibility. WBTC is one such proThe post Bitcoin locked in DeFi soars by 113% after it becomes a DAI collateral appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-14 14:30 | |
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