Ripple’s data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-commits-25m-us-school-nonprofits” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>$25 million donation to a crypto education fund has reignited conversations about how blockchain projects are building influence through academia—but in the latest episode of Byte-Sized Insight, Animoca Brands’ co-founder Yat Siu says that money alone isn’t enough.
Instead, real-world use cases like student loans backed by DeFi may be crypto’s most convincing value proposition to date.
DeFi student loans
On April 30th, Pencil Finance, a data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.animocabrands.com/pencil-finance-announces-usd10m-for-student-loan-financing-backed-by-animoca-brands-open-campus” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>project supported by Animoca Brands and its data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/open-campus-launches-layer-3-edu-chain-for-education-and-on-chain-finance” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>education arm Open Campus, announced a $10 million…
