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Crypto Credit Boom & Bust
From 2020 to 2022, crypto credit flowed freely, primarily through CeFi...Further data that users provide to enhance their loan terms includes credit scores from Credit Karma,...data to determine credit terms....Credit Slashing and Loan Recovery
The credit slasher is 3Jane’s mechanism for dealing with borrowers...
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18 Min
DeFi
Jul 2025
...structured credit works....Evolution of Onchain Structured Credit: Where Prior Solutions Fell Short
The idea of bringing credit...Aptos: Infrastructure for Institutional-Grade Credit
Scaling On-Chain Credit: Institutional Demand Meets...Evaluating Competing Models in On-Chain Credit
Earlier, we outlined how traditional structured credit...
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32 Min
DeFi
Dec 2025
Forum Spotlight
[REDACTED] Gets a Credit Line
Synopsis: Debt DAO, a new DAO currently focusing on providing...uncollateralized loans to DAOs based on cashflows, has offered [REDACTED] a $5m credit line.
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9 Min
DAO
Feb 2022
MetaStreet: Establishing a Liquidity Base Layer for the NFT Credit Market
[Excerpt from The Delphi Podcast...
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7 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Apr 2022
Introduction
Exactly one year ago, we wrote about how credit markets for NFTs were developing and why...These are:
NFT Lending (credit markets)
Derivatives (perps & options)
In traditional markets...Introduction Exactly one year ago, we wrote about how credit markets for NFTs were developing and why...
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36 Min
NFTs
Sep 2023
They do not express things like maturity, collateralization, or credit constraints....For private credit committees, this is not an opportunity but friction..../private-credit-current-dynamics-shaping-markets.html
There is nothing irrational about this....Private credit makes its money by being bespoke.
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81 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2025
Chart of The Day: Crypto Loans for Emerging Markets
Goldfinch Protocol is a credit protocol that allows...Chart of The Day: Crypto Loans for Emerging Markets Goldfinch Protocol is a credit protocol that allows...
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6 Min
Money Markets
May 2022
The reason institutions like this structure is that credit risk is largely engineered out....alongside their traditional credit line....If the balance runs short, the remainder automatically falls through to credit....OatFi, Fence, Valinor, and BlackOpal are rebuilding credit operations and origination.
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33 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2026
Treasuries, equities, credit products, and real estate are being onboarded at a rapid pace....Much of this value continues to cluster in fixed income and private credit, but other sectors are catching...Grove just onboarded $250 million in credit products with Janus Henderson, and hedge fund Skybridge recently...
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16 Min
Infrastructure
Oct 2025
On November 10th, we put forth a proposal to fundamentally revise Aave’s current token architecture. Having received excellent feedback from the community, we are thrilled to present V2 which incorpor...
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Lending / Borrowing
Dec 2020
Blockchain-Native Credit Bureau (On-Chain Credit)
True on-chain credit is one of the use cases that has...The vast majority of “credit” in crypto to date has been overcollateralized lending....This isn’t credit in the traditional sense because it doesn’t involve trust or underwriting per say,...
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34 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2025
Tradable: Onchain Private Credit Market
Tradable is a high-profile joint venture between Victory Park...Capital, a private credit fund with $9B in originations, and Spring Labs, a blockchain data security...firm, aiming to stand at the forefront of the private credit evolution.
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39 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
...lines are, in my opinion, a peek into the future of credit–based DeFi at large....The issue with credit onchain that immediately arises is privacy....DeFi via its credit algorithm, which assigns credit scores to wallet addresses by fusing users’ web2..., and private credit via specialized corporate debt and fintech lending.
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71 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2025
On November 10th, we put forth a proposal to fundamentally revise Aave’s current token architecture. Having received excellent feedback from the community, we are thrilled to present V2 which incorpor...
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DeFi
Dec 2020
Ferraro (President and Chief Investment Officer) was a Managing Director at HPS, a leading private credit...deals HPS engages in involve coordination and negotiation across a variety of counterparties (i.e. credit...does not have an investment grade credit rating unlike the Traditional Hyperscalers.
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32 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Credit where credit is due....There are a handful of product hooks that make them stand out:
1) Borrow Mode
It’s an actual credit card...Undercollateralized lending / unsecured credit lines (the holy grail)
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Alpha Insight
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DeFi
Jul 2026
...per day, while an Elemental with a score of 100 will earn you 100 Credits per day....Of course, you won’t get as many Credits, but it can still get you some exposure to the ecosystem, and...To get a spin, your NFTs have to have at least 100 Credits earned, but each spin occurs only per NFT,...so you can’t just combine Credits.
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19 Min
NFTs
Sep 2024
For credit cards, issuing banks charge high interchange fees (1.5-2.2%)....This is because they’re underwriting actual credit risk and funding credit card rewards....This distinction matters – the high fees merchants complain about largely reflect credit risk, not just...
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45 Min
Stablecoins
Nov 2024
Summer, this is a big factor in the dampened demand from key sources such as stablecoin growth and credit...Crypto credit growth has been extremely slow to recover as well....Much of this credit made its way back into the crypto ecosystem, acting as another source of demand and...
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10 Min
Macro & Markets
Aug 2024
...components & the primary focus of this note
Private sector savings
Bank lending & shadow bank credit...creation
Cross-border flows
Since most credit creation today is secured (collateral-backed), the price...Lenders are more likely to extend credit when collateral values are stable, while rising collateral values...
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13 Min
Macro & Markets
Apr 2024


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