Bitcoin-backed loans with sub-prime-style incentives, but with liquidation triggers hit Wall Street

Ledn's $188 million securitization marks the moment Bitcoin-backed consumer credit started looking like mainstream asset-backed debt. Ledn Issuer Trust 2026-1 packages 5,441 fixed-rate balloon loans into rated, tradable notes with investment-grade and subordinated tranches, custody arrangements, liquidity reserves, and all the structural scaffolding that allows institutional investors to buy Bitcoin-linked yield without ever touching spot […] The post Bitcoin-backed loans with sub-prime-style incentives, but with liquidation triggers hit Wall Street appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Top U.S. Banks Exploring Bitcoin-Backed Loans

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.

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Report: Goldman Sachs And Other Wall Street Banks Are Exploring Bitcoin-Backed Loans

Goldman Sachs is among a handful of top-tier banking institutions in the U.S. seeking to take bitcoin as collateral for loans.

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Coinbase Pushing Lending Options With $1M Bitcoin-Backed Loans

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.

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Houston auto dealer to offer luxury car purchases through Bitcoin-backed loans

Post Oak Motor Cars (POMC) and crypto custody firm NYDIG recently announced a partnership that enables the Houston-based auto dealer to sell vehicles through Bitcoin-backed loans. The post Houston auto dealer to offer luxury car purchases through Bitcoin-backed loans appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bitcoin-Based Lending And Savings Platform Ledn Raises $2.7 Million

Ledn, which lets users earn interest on saved bitcoin or access bitcoin-backed loans, raised $2.7 million in a financing round. The post Bitcoin-Based Lending And Savings Platform Ledn Raises $2.7 Million appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Fidelity to Offer Bitcoin-Backed Cash Loans via BlockFi

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Coinbase to Offer Bitcoin-Based Cash Loans of up to $20,000 Across 17 US States

U. S. crypto exchange Coinbase will start offering bitcoin-backed cash loans to select customers as early as next month. Investors can borrow up to 30% of the bitcoin they hold on the exchange, or a maximum $20,000, it said.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Loans, Ethereum’s Fees, YAM’s Bug

Ethereum fees and miners' profits are at all-time highs. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and the Tor Network is subject to a crypto scam.

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Coinbase to Offer Bitcoin-Backed Loans to US Customers

Coinbase will allow U.S. retail customers to borrow fiat loans against as much as 30% of their bitcoin holdings starting in the fall.

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Silvergate’s Bitcoin-Backed Lending Product Grew 80% in the Last Quarter

Silvergate Bank continued to add a steady drip of crypto customers in Q2 2020 but its issuance of bitcoin-collateralized loans is what stood out.

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Stablecoins and Crosschain Loans: 2 Projects Attempt to Bring Defi Solutions to Bitcoin

While decentralized finance (defi) solutions have grown popular on the Ethereum blockchain, developers have recently created similar systems by leveraging BTC’s network. A project called Atomic Loans claims to offer a noncustodial bitcoin-backed stablecoin solution, while Money on chain a new smart contract built on the RSK protocol, also offers a stablecoin token.

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Morgan Creek Invests in Startup Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi

Anthony Pompliano's investment firm has joined a seed round for Atomic Loans, a startup looking to create bitcoin-backed lending instruments.

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Peter Schiff Claims That Bitcoin-Backed Loans Will Cause Huge Losses

Peter Schiff predicts Atomic Loan's Bitcoin-backed DeFi solution will 'blow up' in case of another BTC price crash

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Atomic Loans raises $2.45m to build a decentralized finance marketplace for Bitcoin

Atomic Loans has been given a boost to develop a decentralized lending protocol for Bitcoin. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans are coming soon Atomic Loans, a startup focused on developing peer-to-peer Bitcoin-backed loans, announced that it has raised $2.

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Billionaire Brock Pierce Takes Out First-Ever Bitcoin-Backed Mortgage

Bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce took out a crypto-backed mortgage to buy a $1. 2 million home in Amsterdam. But why didn’t he just sell some bitcoin and buy it? Use Bitcoin as Collateral for a Mortgage Cryptocurrency companies that allow you to earn interest on your bitcoins or get dollar loans are springing up like weeds.

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First Bitcoin-Backed Loans Issued to a Canadian Company

Canadian lender Ledn issues a Bitcoin-backed loan to a local crypto payment processing platform.

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First Bitcoin-Backed Loan Issued in Canada

The first Bitcoin-backed loan has been issued to a Canadian company allowing cryptocurrency holders to liquify their assets without selling. Bitcoin Loan a ‘Game Changer’ Canadian company Ledn, has purportedly become the first and only local lender to issue Canadian dollar loans using Bitcoin as collateral, according to local media Wealth Professional.

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