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Bitcoin can serve as collateral for a loan without being sold, but moving its value into blockchain lending markets introduces risks that owning BTC alone doesn't carry.
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The proposal would grant bounded emergency roles now, but the current Risk Steward release cannot invoke their one-way safety calls.

The shares are already issued and may never be sold, while loan, treasury and cash risks remain.

Moonwell live data showed 100.43% utilization and negative liquidity while non-liquidated suppliers lacked a clear published recovery path.

Withdrawals remain open, but Term Finance has not confirmed the loss or promised to cover any user shortfall.

The same Bitcoin price mechanism that forced Riot to lock up more of its treasury during the selloff may now return much of it.

Aurelion’s tokenized-gold positions drove most of a $25.1 million operating loss while lending activity weakened across the group.



