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Tranching digital credit unlocks institutional capital

The guest argued that structuring perpetual digital credit into term-based, rated tranches will unlock massive demand from conservative institutions like insurance companies.

The argument

While traditional institutions cannot hold perpetual or highly volatile assets, creating investment-grade, term-limited digital credit tranches solves their mandate constraints. Because the underlying capital is deployed directly into Bitcoin, this structure allows for virtually infinite credit issuance.

The thesis, stress-tested
✓ What validates it
  • The launch of the first rated, term-based digital credit instrument
  • Public disclosures of insurance companies allocating capital to these tranches
▸ Risks discussed
  • Complexity of structuring across DeFi and TradFi boundaries
  • Potential reluctance of rating agencies to rate Bitcoin-backed tranches
Hear it yourself
"but, like, you you owe a lot of money Yeah. In dividends. Yeah. So let's see. As of today, I I think we've got about $1,300,000,000 of Bitcoin on our balance sheet. We owed 16,500 Bitcoin. We announced that this morning. And then we've got, $575,000,000 of perpetual preferred equity outstanding at 13%. So I think it's just a touch over $70,000,000 annual interest obligation, last last I checked. So, we on our balance sheet, not only do we have the 16,500 Bitcoin, but we also have twelve months of USD cash reserve and six months of SDRC reserve."
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