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The On-Chain Lending Squeeze Crypto Borrowers Are Feeling
In this episode of The Cryptocurrency Economy, Lucas and Luna drill into a quietly building pressure point in digital asset markets: on-chain lending rates. With the Fed holding the effective federal funds rate at 3.64 percent since April, decentralized lending protocols like Aave and Compound are seeing borrowing demand outpace supply, pushing annual percentage yields for stablecoin loans above 12 percent for the first time since 2023. The hosts walk through what's driving this: a combination of speculative leverage in Solana memecoins, institutional players using on-chain credit for…
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