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They likely re-lend on crypto platforms where thanks to incentives and high borrow demand you can relatively easily get 15+% yields

For example anchor protocol offers 20% APY on UST deposited in it, and has done consistently for 6+months. As long as the peg holds and the protocol is solvent it's "free" money




Doesn't that just push the same question back a level? Where are these other platforms getting their profits from to sustain such high yields? If there's high demand for high-interest crypto loans, that means there should be platforms one can point to to trace the source of profit - the high-interest loans that fund the high-yield deposit platforms that fund this medium-yield deposit platform?

The whole thing sounds incredibly scammy.


not if more tether can be printed from thin air to pay the interest.


Fwiw, UST != USDT.


FYI. Anchor is almost out of money to pay that yield.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/anchor-protocol-reserves-s...





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