Peer-to-peer lending News

After the 2023 crackdown, Nexo reenters the US with a partner-led model. What is different, and what should users watch?

Babylon Labs says it has built a system using BitVM3 that allows native Bitcoin to be used as trustless collateral for borrowing on Ethereum, but its trustless design raises questions.

DeFi lending is poised to capture more institutional interest as tokenized RWAs are increasingly accepted as collateral for stablecoin loans, according to Binance Research.

Bithumb’s new rules slash maximum loan limits by 80% and halve leverage, following regulator scrutiny over high-risk crypto lending products.

Aave’s community overwhelmingly approved a proposal to license a centralized version of its lending protocol for deployment on Kraken’s Ink blockchain.

Fintech firms are poised to adopt DeFi lending due to its permissionless nature, according to the co-founder of Morpho.

While regulators in Europe and the US debate crypto’s future, young Africans are already using blockchain to solve pressing challenges from unstable currencies to internet access.

The total crypto lending market has yet to recover from the collapse of top CeFi lenders, but DeFi borrowing has made a 959% recovery from the bear market bottom.

Abracadabra lost $13 million in ETH after a hack targeting GMX-linked pools, but GMX denies its smart contracts were involved in the vulnerability.

The objective of Cycles is to “clear the most debt for the most people with the least money,” Informal Systems’ CEO Ethan Buchman said.

High-risk DeFi loans have soared since the US elections, just months after Curve’s founder was liquidated for over $100 million.

The crypto lending platform took the 10-month pause to realign its onboarding process with the FCA's guidelines oriented towards investor protection.

A Reddit user’s draft proposal aims to prevent MitM scams in P2P cryptocurrency markets by securing transactions without KYC.

Morpho Labs has raised $50 million from over 40 investors, including Ribbit Capital, which also invests in Revolut, NuBank, Coinbase, Robinhood, Mercado Libre, Figure, and Uniswap.

The AMPL pool on borrowing and lending protocol Aave suffered a liquidity crunch in December due to a contract bug, and DAO participants continue to debate how to properly compensate investors.