Nexo, a number one cryptocurrency lending platform and alternate, has launched a brand new function on its platform — the Nexo Booster.
Launched earlier this yr as a part of the Nexo app, the Booster is now set to convey extra functionalities to the platform’s net customers and allow them to develop their holdings additional.
The Nexo Booster brings leverage buying and selling to the platform, enabling customers to purchase as much as 3x the quantity of the asset they need.
The corporate says that the Booster is an industry-first product that permits customers to amplify the buying energy of their present holdings with out allocating further capital.
Totally collateralized leverage with Nexo Booster
What makes the Booster totally different from different leverage merchandise in the marketplace is its hybrid design. In essence, the Booster shares equivalent options with the Nexo Alternate and the Nexo Immediate Crypto Credit score Strains, permitting it to execute, borrow and alternate transactions mechanically with no slippage.
The function permits customers to get between 1.25 and 3x leverage on their portfolios by means of the Nexo Immediate Crypto Credit score Line. Leverage by way of the Nexo Booster works by collateralizing the person’s present holdings and the belongings the person acquires by means of the booster transaction. This makes everything of the person’s credit score line totally collateralized and brings the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio to 70% or underneath.
The LTV of a booster transaction determines the peak of the charges, which vary from 1% of an LTV of fifty% or much less to three% for an LTV between 60% and 70%. Because the Booster makes use of the infrastructure of the Alternate and Immediate Crypto Credit score Strains, customers obtain as much as 0.5% alternate loyalty rewards on each transaction.
There are 28 currencies obtainable within the Nexo Booster — BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, EOS, BNB, XLM, PAXG, LINK, TRX, ADA, DOT, AXS, MATIC, MANA, SAND, UNI, AAVE, GALA, CRV, 1INCH, FTT, SOL, AVAX, FTM, ATOM, KSM, and NEAR.
Whereas the platform has set a most of $250,000 per booster transaction, customers are in a position to make as many transactions as they need. Having an open credit score line doesn’t stop customers from utilizing the Booster. Nevertheless, it’s necessary to notice that an open credit score line will change the LTV for the booster transaction.
Every of the 18 cryptocurrencies that can be utilized as collateral within the credit score line has a permitted LTV, with Bitcoin having the very best at 50%. The Nexo Booster has a single permitted LTV for all cash set at 70%, permitting customers to borrow extra in opposition to belongings that may in any other case have a low obtainable LTV.
Except for the brand new performance, it offers to the platform, the Nexo Booster additionally brings a further degree of safety. Whereas the Booster is technically just like leverage or margin buying and selling, it was constructed to offer elevated safety for customers by solely allowing safer LTV ranges for transactions that aren’t typical for leverage buying and selling. Not like margin buying and selling, which permits each lengthy and brief positions, the Nexo Booster solely provides leverage for lengthy positions.
One other main change Nexo brings is the drastic enchancment within the ease of use for leverage buying and selling. Taking out credit score by repeatedly borrowing in opposition to crypto belongings, buying extra belongings, after which collateralizing them for extra loans is a time-consuming and costly course of that may additionally set off a number of taxable occasions.
The Nexo Booster automates all of those credit score requests and transactions, saving each money and time for shoppers utilizing the platform.
Nexo is at present engaged on including extra functionalities to the Booster and enhancing the safety of its customers. The Nexo Booster isn’t obtainable to customers within the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Estonia.
