Onchain student loans could supercharge DeFi: Animoca’s Yat Siu

Bringing student loans onchain could increase the decentralized finance (DeFi) total value locked (TVL) by more than four times, supercharging the industry, according to Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands. Speaking at Consensus 2025 in Toronto, Siu pointed to the $3 trillion global student loan market as an untapped opportunity for the crypto industry. He said moving even 10% of that market onchain could significantly boost DeFi’s growth. “You basically more than quadruple TVL in all of DeFi,” he said, underscoring how the industry is still in its early stages source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-student-loans-onchain-education-wave?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound