How to offer yield for digital assets, responsibly.

Loans are as old as money. Throughout history - from seeds to gold, every form of money has had a thriving lending market. Bitcoin is a digital, more transparent asset - and for it to thrive, it will also need a lending market.

The demand for bitcoin and digital asset lending services became evident during the 2020 runup, when tens of billions of client assets flowed to centralized and decentralized lending platforms. An environment of easy money policies and supersonic growth allowed bad actors to act recklessly and mislead consumers, without any checks and balances. All of this ultimately led to the “Sam-tastic” collapse of the digital asset lending industry in 2022.