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According to CoinDesk, Franklin Templeton has expanded its "Over-the-Counter Collateral Program" to Bybit, allowing users of the exchange to use their tokenized money market fund shares for cryptocurrency trading. Users can use the shares as collateral to borrow stablecoins USDT or USDC, while the underlying assets continue to generate returns. The relevant shares represent approximately $686 million in net assets.The underlying assets will not be transferred to Bybit but will be held off-chain by the regulated custody platform ByCustody, with their value mirrored in the Bybit trading environment, thereby generating returns while releasing trading liquidity. The shares are issued through the Benji technology platform, which is Franklin Templeton's proprietary blockchain-integrated record-keeping and transfer agency infrastructure, currently paying an annualized return of 3.7% based on the latest 7-day interest rate.This is not Franklin Templeton's first foray into over-the-counter collateral partnerships, as it has previously offered tokenized money market funds to Binance and OKX clients. Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton, stated that investors can now use collateral more efficiently across major exchanges and earn returns from it, which is crucial for ecosystem growth. This expansion also reflects industry trends, with platforms like Crypto.com and Deribit allowing qualified users to use BlackRock's BUIDL fund as trading collateral.

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov tweeted that he measures Aave's potential market by the range of assets that can be used as collateral; the more types of collateral assets there are, the greater the lending market opportunities.He stated that Aave started with crypto assets and then expanded into securities through tokenized stocks on Coinbase and Horizon RWA, and in the future will further cover assets such as solar energy, batteries, GPUs, robotics, and space infrastructure. He categorized the last type of assets, such as solar energy, batteries, and GPUs, as abundant assets.

Coinbase tokenized stocks have launched on the Aave V4 Base deployment version. Eligible users from jurisdictions outside the United States can use AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc, and TSLAc as collateral to borrow USDC.This V4 instance is deployed by Aave Labs on behalf of Aave DAO, with risk analysis completed by LlamaRisk. Chainlink serves as Coinbase's official oracle solution, providing price data for tokenized stocks that includes the underlying stock prices and issuer multipliers.

Galaxy Digital, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset company, has incorporated $100 million in Sky Protocol interest-bearing savings tokens sUSDS into its corporate treasury and included them in the collateral range for institutional business facing over 1,600 counterparties. Galaxy also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY.Galaxy clients can use sUSDS as collateral for loans and continue to earn Sky Savings Rate yields during the loan term. The average loan size in Galaxy's institutional lending business is approximately $1.4 billion; the Sky ecosystem's Prime Agent Grove had previously provided a $500 million warehouse loan limit to it.

Coinbase launches Bitcoin-collateralized fixed-rate, fixed-term USDC loans through Morpho Midnight, allowing borrowers to obtain USDC without selling their Bitcoin. The interest rate and repayment date for the product are determined at the start of the loan; if borrowers do not repay the USDC and interest before the due date, the collateralized Bitcoin may be reclaimed.The existing active or outstanding loan volume of Bitcoin-collateralized loans with floating rates supported by Morpho at Coinbase has exceeded 1.4 billion dollars, with collateral valued at approximately 3 billion dollars.

Aave V4 launched Equities Hub on Base, allowing eligible non-U.S. users to use seven U.S. stock tokens issued by Coinbase as collateral to borrow USDC, covering Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. The market is powered by Chainlink, providing on-chain price data for tokenized stocks. The initial collateral cap for the seven stocks is approximately $29 million, with a USDC supply cap of $32 million and a borrowing cap of $21 million. The collateralization rates for different stocks range from 65% to 79%.Currently, these stocks can only be used as collateral. Aave stated that more Coinbase tokenized stocks and GHO may be added as borrowable assets in the future after governance and risk assessments are approved.

The Solana ecosystem lending protocol Kamino has launched the sUSDai collateral market. This market is planned and operated by Allez Labs, and sUSDai is an asset linked to GPU loans.In this market, sUSDai holders can collateralize assets to borrow USDC, with a maximum loan-to-value ratio of 80%. Liquidation will be triggered when the collateralization ratio rises to 85%.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has migrated institutional client collateral to the over-the-counter custody solution Sygnum Protect of the Swiss crypto bank Sygnum. Client collateral is stored in Sygnum's segregated accounts and is simultaneously mapped back to Bitget for trading, reducing counterparty risk.Sygnum is a digital asset bank holding a Swiss FINMA banking license, and its Sygnum Protect service allows clients to trade on mainstream crypto exchanges while storing collateral off-chain in a bankruptcy-remote manner, supporting the selection of stable, yield-generating collateral. Bitget is the fourth trading platform to access Sygnum Protect, following Binance, Deribit, and Bybit.

Coinbase has launched fixed-rate loans supported by the decentralized lending protocol Morpho, allowing users to collateralize Bitcoin to borrow USDC, locking in the interest rate and repayment date at the start of the loan. This product marks the first enterprise-level deployment of Morpho Midnight, with Coinbase responsible for the application experience, Morpho providing the credit infrastructure, and the Base network handling settlement.The existing active scale of Coinbase's Morpho floating-rate loans has exceeded 1.4 billion dollars, corresponding to collateral of about 3 billion dollars. This business will launch Bitcoin collateralized lending in early 2025, with plans to expand collateral to assets such as XRP and Dogecoin.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, CoinRoutes co-founder Dave Weisberger stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the biggest unreleased factor for Bitcoin is not ETFs or corporate hoarding, but rather collateral treatment. He pointed out that banks face a nearly 100% discount when holding Bitcoin, and once Bitcoin is treated like other assets based on volatility and liquidity, the situation for lending institutions and companies like Strategy Inc (formerly MicroStrategy) will change.Weisberger referred to this adjustment as the "final hurdle" and mentioned that both the Basel Committee and regulators believe this change is inevitable, but it has not yet been fully realized. He also discussed topics such as asset tokenization, Hyperliquid, and Federal Reserve policies, believing that Wall Street is providing support for related directions under the trend of tokenization.He further stated that the influx of ETF funds has reduced Bitcoin's volatility; every 25 basis points change in interest rates adds $100 billion to the U.S. fiscal deficit; Bitcoin still possesses asymmetric option characteristics, and the issue of "clean collateral" has not been resolved, so market FOMO sentiment has not truly begun.

The cryptocurrency security warehouse leverage, unified account model, and unified account professional version will add 3 new bStocks tokens on September 23 at 20:00---Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPHB), AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMCB), and Axe Compute (AGPUB)---as eligible collateral assets. Qualified users can use these bStocks tokens as margin collateral.

Circle announced that the Digital Asset Backed Borrowing and Lending (DABB) feature has been launched on the Arc and Ethereum networks, available to eligible Circle Mint institutional clients.Clients can deposit Bitcoin, mint Circle Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), and supply cirBTC as collateral to third-party lending markets in a single process using a self-custody wallet. The USDC borrowed will be directly settled into the Circle Mint account balance, without the need to sell the pledged Bitcoin; collateral can be released after repaying the USDC.

Binance has now extended the eligibility for bStocks as leveraged collateral to all users' full-margin accounts and unified margin accounts, further enriching collateral options and enhancing capital flexibility. Regular users, VIP 1, and VIP 2 users must complete a suitability assessment questionnaire before using bStocks as collateral or engaging in bStocks leveraged trading. VIP 3 users and above are not subject to the aforementioned risk control measures.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho announced that the lending market for Coinbase's tokenized stocks has launched on Base. Holders can use five types of stock tokens as collateral to borrow USDC at floating or fixed rates. Since August, Coinbase has been issuing these stock tokens to users outside the United States, allowing users to store them in self-custody wallets, enabling collateralized lending to obtain dollar liquidity without selling their positions.Data shows that borrowers have pledged stock tokens worth $104,400, borrowing $54,700, with a total supply of approximately $60,300 across five markets. All five markets are curated by Steakhouse Financial, with its two Steakhouse High Yield USDC vaults providing 98.9% of the funding in the largest market. The markets cover five tokens: Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Meta, and SpaceX, with the liquidation loan-to-value ratio (LLTV) for the Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and SpaceX markets at 62.5%, and 77% for the Alphabet market.Currently, all borrowing occurs in the floating rate market, and there are no outstanding positions in the fixed rate layer Midnight's 95 markets. The utilization rates for the Apple, Alphabet, and Nvidia markets reach 90%, with borrowing rates at 5.62%; the Meta market has a utilization rate of 97%, with borrowing rates rising to 17.52%. Morpho's total deposits on Base amount to $4.03 billion, with total chain deposits reaching $10.42 billion.

According to the official announcement from Hyperliquid, the manual lending feature has been launched, allowing users to collateralize HYPE or BTC to borrow USDC and USDT. The loan-to-value ratio for HYPE is 65%, and for BTC, it is 50%, with corresponding liquidation thresholds of 82.5% and 75%.Collateralized HYPE and BTC do not accrue interest, while deposited USDC and USDT can earn interest but do not count towards the borrowing limit; the interest rate varies with the utilization rate of funds and is calculated hourly, with separate account and global limits. This feature is available for manual and unified accounts, while the combined margin accounts use automatic lending. The official statement mentions that both share the HyperCore underlying infrastructure, with a total of $269 million in borrowed assets on the same day.

Market news reports that SoftBank will increase the margin loan size secured by Arm stock by 5 billion dollars, to 25 billion dollars.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that users can borrow up to 1000 USDT with BTC as collateral at a 40% collateralization rate, and price fluctuations within the initial 30-day period will not trigger liquidation.The one-time promotional rate for this loan is 0.5%, with no additional interest charged during the term; overdue repayments will incur a daily penalty and may ultimately trigger liquidation.

On September 14, Aave Labs released an ARFC on the Aave governance forum, seeking approval to deploy a new Aave V4 Isolated Hub and Spoke to integrate institutional custody collateral as collateral for stablecoin loans. Institutional borrowers will deposit collateral with Anchorage and maintain custody during the loan period, with the custody balance represented on-chain by non-transferable custody collateral tokens CoCT, minted and burned by CustodySync designed by Chainlink.Borrowers will stake CoCT on the Spoke and withdraw stablecoins from the Isolated Hub. The entire loan lifecycle, including liquidation, is synchronized between the custodian and Aave through Chainlink infrastructure. The proposal is limited to a single Isolated Hub and a single Spoke governed by the Aave DAO, without altering existing Hubs, Spokes, or reserves. The underlying assets will always remain in custody, with Anchorage holding the assets as the custodian and acting as the counterparty for account control protocols; Chainlink does not hold the assets.CoCT is a restricted transfer ERC-20, only allowing Hub, Spoke, and CustodySync, with minting and burning exclusive to CustodySync, and each borrower's position corresponding to a contract. The initial plan is to launch a CoCT for BTC held in custody by Anchorage. The next steps involve ARFC discussions, and if supported, it will proceed to Snapshot, followed by submitting the final parameters for AIP.