Bitcoin Suisse has begun offering decentralized finance (DeFi) services to its clients with the addition of the Liquity protocol to its product lineup. It allows customers to post Ethereum (ETH) collateral in the protocol to mint and borrow the Liquity Dollar (LUSD) stablecoin.

In an announcement on April 20, Bitcoin Suisse said it will perform all smart contract interactions and system monitoring on its client’s behalf and allow the borrowed LUSD token to be exchanged into any fiat currency.

Bitcoin Suisse is a centralized crypto and financial services company founded in 2013 and based in Switzerland which offers services such as trading, custody, lending, and staking of cryptocurrencies to mostly institutional investors.

Liquity is a DeFi borrowing protocol launched in April 2021 which allows users to post Ethereum collateral into its smart contract and borrow its native LUSD stablecoin at a 0% interest rate. Liquity currently has over $1.1 billion in total value locked into its contract.

CEO of Bitcoin Suisse Dr. Dirk Klee said the firm was proud to take a “significant step” towards offering decentralized solutions to its clients:

Launched as a pilot stage and Bitcoin Suisse says it’s only available to a select and “very small number” of its clients with the borrowing amount set above $500,000.

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DeFi is becoming a particular interest to both the crypto sector and traditional finance with the current total value locked (TVL) across the ecosystem nearing $215 billion according to DeFi Llama, not far from its $254.8 billion all time high on December 2nd 2021.

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