Crypto Loans and Security: Lessons from the Crypto Winter

The cryptocurrency industry – which had been flying high on a two-year long bull market, fuelled by the narrative of ‘decentralised finance’ (DeFi) – has now fallen to earth. Experts from A&O's Singapore and Hong Kong offices consider some of the main issues associated with lending and borrowing crypto-assets: the custody of crypto-assets, the taking of security over crypto-assets and, if the worst comes to the worst, claiming in an insolvency.