Sequoia-Backed Onchain Custodian To Set Up New Crypto Lending Business

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The Singapore-headquartered digital asset custody supplier Onchain Custodian (ONC) is about to strengthen their positions in crypto lending and borrowing enterprise, in keeping with ONC Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO), El Lee.

There is a novel firm within the pipeline to be introduced, with the registration to be finalized in a matter of weeks, he instructed Cryptonews.com.

“We’re truly within the midst of forming a brand new firm, the identify is just not determined but. But in brief, the corporate [will run] a lending and borrowing enterprise out of the Onchain Group itself. So that is actually thrilling stuff that we’re doing within the subsequent half-year,” Lee mentioned, including that extra particulars could be accessible within the coming weeks.

In the meantime, the corporate can be constructing custom-made pockets capabilities, creating new asset administration merchandise, and dealing on a brand new characteristic for crypto exchanges that may enable them to decide on between totally different transaction price varieties, as these platforms want quick execution.

“We’re in dialogue to construct a characteristic the place after the transaction has gone out, we are able to do one thing like cancel the transaction and even speed up the transaction,” Lee mentioned.

Also, ONC’s key objective is to get the fee companies license in Singapore. “Hopefully, someday this yr, we get a optimistic nod from the regulator that we could be given the license,” the COO added.

Per their web site, ONC’s prospects embrace crypto exchanges, crypto funds, hedge funds, miners, asset managers, over-the-counter brokers, household places of work, high-net-worth people, and others. In April 2019, ONC launched its SAFE Platform, a digital asset custody platform and value-added companies.

Their traders embrace enterprise capital corporations equivalent to Sequoia and DHVC, in addition to Chinese multinational conglomerate holding firm Fosun.

Their Chair of Board is Da Hongfei, Co-founder of the NEO blockchain and of OnChain (Distributed Technology), a industrial blockchain agency that gives companies to personal firms.
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