Pencil Finance completes $1M onchain lending cycle for 6.6K students in Southeast Asia
Pencil Finance said that its firstofakind loan offered financing to 6,600 students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional lenders.…
More Markets lending reserve drained for $9.3M: Blockaid
Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and Emode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending…
Cronos halts blockchain after $75 million lending exploit hits lending app Tectonic
An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when…
Bullish provides USD.AI $100M stablecoin facility for GPU-backed lending
The institutional crypto exchange is providing $100 million in stablecoin liquidity to support loans backed by AI computing infrastructure. Source:Cointelegraph
MoonPay’s newest integration lets AI agents handle crypto lending on Solana
Source:CoinDesk
Dallas Fed warns tokenized deposits could strip $700 billion from U.S. banks' lending capacity
Programmable deposits and AI agents may enable instantaneous, automated bank switching for higher yields, driving up bank funding costs. Source:CoinDesk
Make these 7 money moves before taking out a private student loan
After the federal government put new limits on certain types of studentloan borrowing this summer, lending experts expect more students to turn to private…
Ripple backs an RLUSD credit fund amid XRP's best week in months
Clearpool and Cicada Partners are building an institutional lending product using RLUSD, though the XRP Ledger features underpinning it are still awaiting…
America’s growing debt pile will be the big focus Wednesday as global bond rout deepens
How much will the U.S. need to pay to convince the world to keep lending it money? Source:MarketWatch
Compound bets $52 million, new leadership team in switch to institutional focus
The protocol pioneered decentralized finance lending, but assets locked have tumbled from a peak five years ago. Now it's looking to attract institutions after…
Bitcoin-backed lending is entering its institutional era: Two Prime
Public companies are increasingly borrowing against their bitcoin holdings to fund acquisitions and capital spending without selling the asset. Source:CoinDesk
Marex invests in Digital Prime to expand institutional crypto lending
The undisclosed investment will support the development of Tokenet, a digital asset lending platform, as institutional demand for crypto infrastructure…