Large exchanges and financial services providers such as Unchained Capital rely on industry best practices such as 100% cold-storage, multisig, and multi-factor identity verification. Unfortunately, it’s been challenging for individuals to achieve this same level of security and reliability for themselves. That changes today. We are excited to announce the…

tl,dr; In crypto-backed lending, the biggest concerns for borrowers/lenders is how Bitcoin or Ethereum collateral is secured, especially the counterparty risk and centralization when trusting a single-institution. To reduce these risks, Unchained Capital has released an enhanced multi-signature, multi-institution security model for custody of loan collateral. Three parties — borrower…

We are excited to release a new version of our Ethereum multisig smart contract. This release adds support for Ledger hardware wallets and was re-audited by the security firm Hosho. After the Parity hacks of 2017, we were extremely suspicious of complicated, unaudited, unmaintained multisig smart contracts. We needed a…

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Since 2017, borrowers have been able to apply for an Unchained Capital loan and get the cash they need without selling their appreciating crypto assets. Today, we are excited to officially launch our customer referral program. How does it work? For each new customer you refer who closes a loan…

Unchained Capital Raises Seed Round We’re excited to announce our seed round funding of $2.995m, including $595k converted from SAFE notes. Our investors for this round include Michael Komaransky, formerly of Cumberland Mining; Brian Spaly, co-founder of Bonobos and Trunk Club; Mike Erwin of Ecliptic Captal; and Ezra Galston of…

Background - Two months ago, Unchained Capital released an open-source Ethereum multisig smart contract which is directly signable by Trezor hardware wallets. Previous Ethereum multisig implementations were overly complex and lacked test coverage (Parity hacks of 2017, 1st, 2nd). …

Unchained Capital is pleased to announce that after receiving our California Finance Lender’s License earlier this month, we are now offering crypto-secured loans to consumers and businesses in California. We’ve gotten a lot of inbound interest from crypto holders in California, so we’re very excited to expand our operations into…

tl;dr — Unchained Capital has released an open-source Ethereum smart contract implementing 2/3-multisig designed to directly interface with Trezor hardware wallets. If you have a Trezor, you can try this contract right now, for free, via our hosted dApp. Developer? Hacker? Paranoiac? …