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The market for mature digital assets that have sophisticated market recovery, capital markets and decentralized funding still lacks an important market infrastructure to compete with traditional funding: a credit agency in institutional quality.
The architect aims to change this by launching Crypto’s first credit rating in institutional quality, similar to traditional finance’s moody’s-fordi most tradfi rating agencies just don’t touch crypto.
Sure, Moody’s has dipped its toes in digital assets, but a fully blown credit bureau operating only in crypto is still missing.
This is partly due to the fact that Crypto does not have a trusted intermediary to objectively assess creditworthiness, according to Ruben Amenyogbo, Architect’s CEO.
Industry’s anonymous actors, unconventional data and opaque risk profiles make traditional insurance companies nervous, leaving potential lenders reluctant to provide debt financing, Amenyogbo said.
Then there is the ongoing increase of listed companies, including miners and crypto -state box companies. They all try to give capital investors exposure to crypto via stocks.
But this market is now saturated and overrated.
“Crypto Equity is extremely overrated. Too much money has been raised to chase equity opportunities in crypto,” said Amenyogbo.
This combination of lack of credit bureaues and an exhausted stock market creates the perfect storm for a new opportunity in web3.
“There is a huge opportunity in credit, but no one has delivered the lack of market structure needed to assess the risk correctly,” he said.
This is where the architect comes in with plans to use its proprietary blockchain-based data to systematically evaluate credit risk and unlock new pools of institutional capital.
Amenyogbo believes that the crypto market is now matured enough to support institutional quality credit analysis.
“With equity you look forward, you believe future growth,” said Amenyogbo. “With Credit, you have to look backwards and ask, ‘Have these people reliably appeared?’ Crypto was too young and untested to it until recently, but now there is enough history for meaningful credit analysis.
So who benefits from such a service? Bitcoin mine workers and decentralized physical infrastructure network (depin) primarily according to the architect.
In theory, miners with access to Fiat Credit could reduce forced sales, allowing them to bet more assets, generating greater activity on the chain and switching from reactive outflows to productive financial contribution, a “double knock-on effect” that transforms the liquidity pressure into real value creation.
Meanwhile, architect see decentralized physical infrastructure network (Depin) as a particularly attractive and underfunded niche to credit, where AmenYogbo explains that Depin provides real financial output rather than just betting on digital asset price value.
“If I want to speculate on Bitcoin, I would buy Bitcoin. But as a credit lender, I can sign a Bitcoin miner and make an effort on the mining and its cash flows that increase the market,” he said.
In the end, the architect’s ultimate ambition is not only to borrow, it is to rebuild Crypto’s capital stack from scratch.
By placing oneself as the first credible risk assesses decentralized infrastructure and applying tradfi-class insurance standards, the company hopes to lock a new wave of institutional capital.
“Raising a $ 100 million fund is cool, but it’s just a fall in the sea,” said Amenyogbo. “What we really do is lay the foundation of crypto credit to scale, as traditional debt does, assembled, judged, insured and syndicated in the largest capital pools in the world.”
Market Movers
BTC: BTC trades over $ 114K where BTC dominance slides to less than 60%. “With financing and positioning in BTC, which is starting to look expanded, dealers can increasingly search their heads in high-beta names,” the market manufacturer Enflux told Coindesk in a note.
ETH: ETH trades with $ 3500, down 2.8% down when the ETF flow ramps up.
Gold: Gold prices dipped in the US trading day when a stronger US dollar and falling oil prices weigh mood, while silver saw modest gains and mixed global economic signals, including robust Chinese service data and growing bold rate cut odds, added complexity to market direction.
Nikkei 225: Asia-Stophav markets traded mixed on Tuesday after Wall Street losses as investors digested weak US economic data and new technology-riff markings from President Trump, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 slipping 0.12%.
S&P 500: The S&P 500 fell 0.49% on Tuesday as weak financial data and fresh Trump-Tariff labeling caused concerns, although analysts expect the bull market to continue despite volatility in the short term.
Other places in crypto
- SEC says Liquid Stake not running by Securities Laws (Coindesk)
- Why Ethereum -Detail Investors remain ‘sidelines’ – even as institutions buying billions (decrypts)
- Solana Mobile starts sending other re-searching smartphones to customers in over 50 countries (block)
