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You're reading <a href="/nl/newsletters/crypto-long-short/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crypto Long & Short</a>, our weekly newsletter featuring insights, news and analysis for the professional investor. <a href="/nl/newsletters/crypto-long-short/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up here</a> to get it in your inbox every Wednesday. This is your institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: <em>…and if you’re looking for more institutional insights: ETF Central’s <a href="https://www.etfcentral.com/global-etf-survey/2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>Trackinsight Global ETF Survey 2026</a>, produced with Calamos Investments and S&P Dow Jones Indices, finds nearly 7 in 10 professional investors are reassessing their ETF holdings.</em> <em>Plus, CoinDesk’s latest <a href="/research/digital-assets-quarterly-review-and-outlook-q3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Digital Assets Quarterly Report</a> is out now.</em> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-klemballa-80101812/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>- Kim Klemballa</a> <em>by <a href="/author/peter-gaffney" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Gaffney, co-founder, O2O Capital Partners</a></em> Fixed-rate lending is the clearest growth lever for real-world assets (RWAs) in decentralized finance (DeFi). It unlocks a strategy that credit desks have run for decades but DeFi has never meaningfully implemented: buy a quality income asset, borrow against it at a locked rate below the asset’s yield and buy more of the asset. Stablecoins are steadily sitting around $300 billion in <a href="https://app.rwa.xyz/stablecoins" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>supply</a> and aggregate <a href="https://o2ocapital.com/research/rwa-vaults-institutional-track-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>vault assets</a> are nearing the $20 billion milestone. Morpho alone carries more than <a href="https://data.morpho.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>$16 billion</a> in deposits, most of it in variable-rate markets priced on pool utilization, which serve crypto-native traders who manage liquid positions in real time but leave longer-dated borrowers with uncertainty. Fixed-rate, fixed-term lending closes that gap by matching the term of the loan to the duration of the collateral, especially for RWAs whose redemptions can settle anywhere from T+7 to T+90. With the borrow cost and maturity known at entry, institutional counterparties can underwrite an RWA looping vault the same way they approve conventional term financing. This is the same bedrock foundation that formed and grew traditional credit markets to $51 trillion in US <a href="https://www.sifma.org/research/statistics/research-quarterly-fixed-income-outstanding" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>fixed income</a> versus $1.6 trillion in <a href="https://www.lsta.org/content/morningstar-lsta-leveraged-loan-index-analysis-december-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener norefe
Swiss National Bank meeting minutes: Since the June monetary policy assessment, monetary conditions have eased overall, as the effects of the Swiss franc's depreciation have outweighed those of higher interest rates.
According to CoinWorld news, the Swiss National Bank meeting minutes: Because the impact of the depreciation of the Swiss franc exceeded the impact of rising interest rates, monetary conditions have generally eased since the June monetary policy assessment.
Ukrainian President Zelensky: Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Zelensky: Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv, striking immediately after the talks concluded.
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs to boost AI efficiency.
Barclays announced on Thursday that it plans to cut 5,000 jobs, citing efficiency gains achieved through artificial intelligence.
Samsung Electronics has been granted a patent for blockchain services.
According to a disclosure by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a Samsung Electronics patent titled "Electronic Device and Method of Operating the Same" was officially granted on October 20. The technology allows an electronic device to identify nearby devices supporting blockchain services via wireless signals, establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection, and select the device with the most up-to-date data to complete blockchain synchronization by comparing the latest block heights stored on each device, thereby reducing network traffic and energy consumption when devices synchronize block data.
Financial Associated Press, October 22 - The Swiss National Bank stated that there are still no signs of second-round effects, and core inflation has only risen slightly.
According to a CoinWorld report, Caixin reported on October 22 that the Swiss National Bank said there are still no signs of second-round effects, with core inflation rising only slightly.
BTC liquidations totaled $141 million over the past 24 hours.
According to data from Bijie.com, the rolling 24-hour liquidation amount for BTC is approximately $141 million, involving about 7,594 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 143.3%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is down 30.52%.
US index options open interest stands at 46,060,057 contracts.
Bijie Network US stock data: US index options open interest stands at 46,060,057 contracts, of which 24,775,612 are calls and 21,284,445 are puts.
Swell investigates suspicious activity in swETH and rswETH contracts, confirms no fund outflows
CoinWorld news: The liquid staking protocol Swell is investigating reports of suspicious activity involving the swETH and rswETH contracts and has taken precautionary measures. Swell confirmed that there have been no ETH outflows from either the withdrawal contracts or the deposit contracts for swETH and rswETH, and users need not take any action.
Morgan Stanley: Initial estimates put Middle East crude exports last week at 17 million barrels per day.
According to a report by Bijie, Morgan Stanley stated in a report that Middle East crude oil exports last week, including exports that do not pass through the Strait of Hormuz, were preliminarily estimated at 17 million barrels per day, about 94% of the pre-war level. Saudi Red Sea loadings reached 3 million barrels per day, of which about 75% flowed north into the Mediterranean. Vortexa data shows that refined product shipments recovered to at most only 50% of normal levels. On a seven-day average basis, including LNG and LPG carriers, 8 tankers per day exited through the Strait of Hormuz, unchanged from the previous week. Oil stored on ships in the Persian Gulf decreased by 15 million barrels to 165 million barrels, reflecting that many tankers are still leaving the Persian Gulf.