The world's central bank for central banks just called out crypto yield products.
And the warning is more serious than the headlines suggest.
The Bank for International Settlements the institution that sets global banking standards released a report with a finding every crypto retail investor needs to read.
Those "earn" products promising 5%, 8%, 12% yield?
They function more like unsecured loans than savings accounts.
You are not earning interest. You are lending money.
With no deposit insurance.
No regulatory protection.
No transparency on where your assets actually go.
And no guarantee you get them back.
This isn't theoretical.
Celsius called it "Earn." BlockFi called it "Interest Accounts."
Both collapsed. Both froze withdrawals overnight.
Both left millions of users as unsecured creditors fighting in bankruptcy court for pennies.
The BIS just formalized what those users learned the hard way.
The language is designed to feel like a bank.
The risk profile is nothing like one.
Here's the question every crypto holder needs to answer right now:
Do you know where your yield is coming from?
If the answer is "the platform pays me" you are the loan.
If the answer is "on-chain protocol with audited smart contracts" at least the risk is visible.
The difference between those two answers is the difference between Celsius and Aave.
One was a bank pretending to be crypto.
The other is crypto doing what it was built for.
Know which one you're using.
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