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Crypto Lending Business Booms Amidst Bear Market

Tony Spilotro by Tony Spilotro
2 years ago
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Crypto Lending Business Booms Amidst Bear Market
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The bear market has been a bane for many crypto investors and related businesses that have struggled to remain profitable during continued price decline.

However, the niche market of crypto lending is currently booming despite the rest of the market and industry suffering.

Crypto Creditors Creating Opportunity Out of Market Despair

While some of the most prominent names in the cryptocurrency space – from Bitmain to Huobi, to crypto start-up incubator Consensys – are seeing revenue declines, closing down operations in some locations, and are laying off employees, crypto lenders such as Genesis Capital are raking in profits, growing, and even adding more employees during the current year-long bear market.

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In fact, Michael Moro, chief executive officer of Genesis Capital told Bloomberg in a phone interview that the bear market itself “has fueled the growth,” of his business.

“We’ve been profitable from day one… We’ve certainly proven that there is market demand, that there’s product fit and that it’s time to invest even more in this side of the business,” Moro elaborated.

Genesis is seeking to double its current staff and expanding into other regions including Asian territories, during a time when others are downsizing. “The bear market has certainly helped,” Moro said.

Related Reading | Genesis Trading CEO: Bears Are Running Out of Steam, Bitcoin to $10K

Genesis Capital lends crypto to institutional investors at varying rates, with Bitcoin’s rate between 10 and 12 percent annually. Genesis launched in March of 2018 and in just nine short months has already issued $700 million in loans, with $140 million currently outstanding.

It’s not just Genesis that’s struck digital gold with the current bear market. ETHLend parent company Aave chief executive officer Stani Kulechov called crypto-backed lending “true magic,” because the business model continues to perform well during a bear market.

Crypto-Lending for Cash and Short Selling

There are two primary reasons for investors to consider crypto-related lending, with the latter having a great impact in the current market climate.

In one instance, and one that was more prominent during the 2017 bull run, investors put up their cryptocurrency holdings as collateral to take out a cash loans to do things like pay bills, or complete home renovations. Investors can obtain cash this way without having to fully cash out their holdings.

Related Reading | Short Positions Against Ethereum At All-Time High on BitMex

The other reason for collateralizing crypto assets is for short selling. Short sellers collateralize their cryptocurrencies to essentially place a bet that the price of a crypto asset will decline. When the open short is closed, the investor who placed the bet will receive either cash or an additional sum of cryptocurrency depending on how the contract is settled. Should the price increase while a short is open, a portion of the collateral will be lost.

Many investors who trade on margin are taking advantage of falling cryptocurrency prices in this way, bringing select profit to select few during a time when most others are watching their portfolio value’s bleed. It’s also helping the businesses that provide these options stay afloat and even thrive during the bear market.

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I'm Tony Spilotro. Behind the pseudonym, I'm a digital media executive and global remote work leader with a decade of content experience and excellent. Here, I explore my newfound passions pertaining to privacy, finance, economics, politics, cryptography, property rights, and other libertarian-esque views. I am a Bitcoin evangelist, maximalist, and educator whenever I can be, helping to spread its message of freedom from government control, monetary policy mismanagement, and passing the buck - literally – to future generations. My journey from a curious retail crypto investor to a serious Bitcoin advocate, trader, and technical analyst is an unusual one, but life-changing nonetheless and has become less about money and more about a long-overdue revolution. While a firm believer in the laws governing math and science, I am profoundly fascinated by the impact of astrology and astronomy including moon and solar cycles and planetary alignment and their ability to influence and potentially predict markets. It hasn't yet clicked for me as to how to put anything to use, but I consider it my current rabbit hole I can't yet dig out of. My perspective of growing up alongside the internet, the dot com era, the Great Recession, and roots in video games collecting coins and rare items caused Bitcoin to immediately make sense to me. Through all of these lenses, I seek to produce content that is educational and entertaining, and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read what I have to say. Please follow me on Twitter and feel free to drop me a line if you would like to work together.

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