The digital asset space is vast and constantly growing. What makes up crypto lending and what is the difference between collateralized or uncollateralized lending of digital assets? What are money markets and especially in the context of digital assets? This evolving glossary is all about giving you the basics, fast. Glossary of terms What is Crypto lending? …

Around November 2021, the total market cap for cryptocurrencies was valued at $3 trillion. By the end of the crypto crisis of this summer, over $2 trillion dollars went up in algorithmic smoke. As of today, the Crypto market is still recovering, with a current valuation of $1.08 Trillion. A…

Op-ed written for Nasdaq — by Michael Guzik and Raul Rendon (originally published here) The billionaire hedge fund investor Ray Dalio once said that the global economy is like a machine, running in mechanical cycles. …

Press Release Institutional Digital Asset Lending Venue, CLST, Welcomes Leeor Groen of Spartan Group as New Board Member Zurich, Switzerland — September 28, 2022 — CLST (pronounced “Caeleste”), an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for digital assets, has announced the appointment of Leeor Groen, Director at The Spartan Group, to…

Around $2 trillion dollars in value were wiped off the face of the market across May and June this year (2022). The crypto market crash reached not only institutional investors, but also crypto platforms themselves. 1’180 employees were laid off by Coinbase. Gemini let go of around 1’000 employees. BlockFi…

In our first edition of the CLST Talks, we sit together with Thomas Maurer at our office in Zurich to talk about all things money markets, new money markets and his overall view on the role digital assets play in the new era of financial services. …

Zurich, Switzerland — July 27, 2022 — CLST (pronounced “Caeleste”), an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and crypto assets, has successfully closed a multi-million USD seed round, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Menai Financial Group, Luno Expeditions, a subsidiary of Digital…

CLST Markets, an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and crypto assets, has successfully facilitated an uncollateralized multi-million USDC stablecoin loan executed by Amber Group for the first time today. …

Aleph Zero joins the institutional lending and borrowing network of CLST — Swiss-based FinTech companies CLST and Aleph Zero have announced a partnership to enhance lending and borrowing of specific digital currencies in countries where the new financial practice is approved. The partnership will explore optimal management of Aleph Zero Foundation’s treasuries, tap into liquidity provisioning of the protocol’s native token AZERO…