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Ledn is planning to accept Tether Gold as collateral for loans, extending its Bitcoin-backed lending model into tokenized commodities.
The expansion is timed to a sector that already accounts for nearly 17% of the $43 billion real-world asset market — a share large enough to signal demand, not just experiment.
How Ledn's Bitcoin-Backed Lending Model Works A crypto-backed loan works like a secured loan: a borrower locks up digital assets as collateral and receives cash or stablecoins in return, then reclaims the collateral once the debt is repaid.
The appeal is that borrowers keep long-term exposure to the asset's price without selling it — useful for holders who expect $BTC to appreciate but need short-term liquidity.
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