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“Please be informed that Lending is no longer supported in your jurisdiction. For this reason, we are required to cancel your current loans,” the exchange told two customers, one French, one German, via emails reviewed by CoinDesk. Neither had lending accounts open with the company, they said. Source
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“Our new $100 million BTC credit facility adds another component to our diversified financing strategy and contributes significant non-dilutive capital to fund our global growth initiatives, which include four farms with 298 Megawatts mining capacity under construction,” CFO Jeff Lucas said. Original Source
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Genesis Global Capital has completed one of its first purely NFT-backed loans for $6 million to Meta4 Capital, a Miami-based Web3 focused investment management firm. This loan is notable not just for its amount but for solely using nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral instead of including broader liquid collateral. Meta4
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Arcade, a platform that allows users to utilize nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as loan collateral, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round with participation from Pantera Capital.In a Wednesday announcement, Arcade said Pantera, Castle Island Ventures, Franklin Templeton Blockchain Fund, Golden Tree Asset Management, Eniac Ventures, Protofund, Probably
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Let’s break it down. Simply put, a flash loan is, as the name implies, a loan that is opened and closed in a very short amount of time. More specifically, it is opened and closed in the same transaction. Flash loans are used to execute atomic trades that either capitalize
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) has started eating up syndicated loans.Announced Thursday, Maple Finance, a lending platform that specializes in liquidity pools made up of institutions, has launched its first DeFi syndicated loan for Alameda Research, the trading firm affiliated with global cryptocurrency exchange FTX.In the traditional world, a syndicated loan is
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) money market and lending service CREAM Finance appears to have been the target of a devastating exploit Wednesday that drained over $1 billion in funds, likely the largest exploit to date.According to CREAM’s native frontend, most Ethereum-based pools are now empty.The funds appear to have been taken
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“So for the credit delegation, imagine you have $100k principal deposited in Alchemix, making 10% annually,” wrote pseudonymous Alchemix core contributor Scoopy Trooples in an interview with CryptoX. “That would be $10k in income, or ~$850 a month. That $850 could be delegated to paying for subscription services, payments to
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One of France’s leading banks has turned to decentralized finance pioneer MakerDAO to propose the submission of bond tokens as collateral for a loan of the DAI stablecoin.The historic proposal, called “Security Tokens Refinancing,” was submitted to Maker’s governance forums by the international bank on Friday. It would be the
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A flowchart included in the proposal shows six entities: SocGen; SocGen Forge; the MakerDAO protocol; The DIIS Group that will serve as a “security agent,” a requirement under French law to enforce the terms of the loan on the real-world side on Maker’s behalf; an as-yet unappointed MakerDAO legal representative;
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