{"id":18518,"date":"2025-03-21T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18518"},"modified":"2025-03-21T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:01:55","slug":"wall-street-and-crypto-firms-revive-lending-market-after-industry-shakeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18518","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street And Crypto Firms Revive Lending Market After Industry Shakeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After nearly collapsing during the last crypto downturn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/best-crypto-loans-and-lending-platforms\">digital asset lending<\/a> is making a comeback, with a new generation of lenders re-entering the market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Both traditional financial institutions and blockchain-native companies are reintroducing capital to meet the growing need for liquidity and leverage within the sector, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-21\/cantor-leads-a-new-boom-in-lending-to-debt-hungry-crypto-firms?embedded-checkout=true\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, several major players have unveiled new lending initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>Cantor Fitzgerald has launched a Bitcoin lending business backed by $2 billion in capital, signaling Wall Street&#8217;s renewed interest. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Blockstream has secured billions for its crypto lending funds, while Xapo Bank has begun issuing Bitcoin-collateralized loans of up to $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing larger institutions taking the lead this time around,&#8221; said <strong>David Mercer<\/strong>, CEO of<strong> LMAX Group<\/strong>. &#8220;More banks are gearing up to provide financing solutions for major institutions in the crypto space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boom in crypto lending during the 2021 bull market saw firms like <strong>Genesis<\/strong>, <strong>BlockFi<\/strong> and <strong>Celsius <\/strong>offering unsecured loans to trading desks and hedge funds. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44441335\/wall-street-and-crypto-firms-revive-lending-market-after-industry-shakeout\" alt=\"Wall\" street and crypto firms revive lending market after industry shakeout>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly collapsing during the last crypto downturn, digital asset lending is making a comeback, with a new generation of lenders re-entering the market. What Happened: Both traditional financial institutions and blockchain-native companies are reintroducing capital to meet the growing need for liquidity and leverage within the sector, Bloomberg reported. Over the past month, several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}