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Ex-Cantor execs launch crypto lending platform in expectation of Bitcoin ETFs

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A brand new crypto-lending platform dubbed Tokenet says it can service what it expects to be an inflow of institutional purchasers following the potential United States approval of spot Bitcoin (BTC) change traded fund (ETF). 

The platform was launched by a group of executives who beforehand headed monetary providers agency Cantor Fitzgerald who since joined a brand new brokerage agency referred to as Digital Prime Applied sciences.

In a Nov. 7 assertion, Tokenet stated it can permit corporations to borrow and lend digital belongings whereas managing collateral positions. The platform additionally presents danger administration instruments which permit establishments to mitigate counterparty dangers as they’d in conventional finance.

Digital Prime Applied sciences’ Tokenet platform is already backed by plenty of crypto corporations together with Hidden Street Companions, Xapo Financial institution, EDX Clearing and DV Chain.

“Given the present markets and regulatory headwinds, Tokenet’s launch is a vital and thrilling step in the direction of establishing belief and transparency in digital asset lending,” stated James Runnels, Digital Prime Applied sciences co-founder and CEO.

Tokenet joins a rising roster of corporations searching for to embrace crypto lending following the collapse of lenders together with Voyager Digital, Celsius Community and BlockFi.

In a bid to bolster declining revenues, crypto change giants together with Coinbase and Binance have leaned closely on lending choices all of the whereas assuring traders that they’ve discovered from the errors of the crypto lending catastrophe of 2022 which bankrupted plenty of high-profile corporations.

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Tokenet’s launch is buoyed by the broader crypto market enthusiasm for an impending approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF. Whereas an approval will not be assured, Bloomberg ETF analysts have pegged the chance of an approval at 90% earlier than January subsequent 12 months.

If a spot Bitcoin ETF is permitted, crypto lending corporations resembling Tokenet stand to achieve from the inflow of establishments trying to borrow Bitcoin.

Runnels was beforehand the managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald, whereas the COO of Digital Prime Applied sciences, Bob Sherry was beforehand COO of Prime Providers at Cantor till 2018.

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