NOWLoans – A Premium Loans Service by ChangeNOW

By registering on the official website of our instant cryptocurrency exchange ChangeNOW, you can get a crypto loan and take advantage of all market movements to get the most out of your digital assets. 

NOWLoans is a secure and transparent lending service allowing you to get a loan within a few minutes. Depending on the confirmation time of the deposit transaction, the funds can be yours in as fast as 5 or 10 minutes.   

ChangeNOW accepts the following coins and tokens as collateral: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Firo (FIRO), Nano (NANO), DogeCoin (DOGE), Ripple (XRP), DigiByte (DGB), Uniswap (UNI), Chainlink (LINK), Maker (MKR), Chiliz (CHZ), Synthetic Network (SNX), Compound (COMP), EnjinCoin (ENJ), Basic Attention Token (BAT), SushiToken (SUSHI), yearn.finance (YFI), 0x (ZRX), Fantom Token (FTM), and Bancor (BNT).

There is always room for improvements, and in the future we plan to add more coins acceptable as collateral, including Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH), TRON (TRX), Litecoin (LTC), Algorand (ALGO), and others. 

Loans are sent in USDT or USDC. 

Exclusive benefits of using NOWLoans

• Unlimited loan terms. You can take out a loan for just a few hours or a long-term one for several years. 
• No monthly payments. ChangeNOW accumulates your interest rate every month, but you are only required to pay what you owe when you decide to close your loan.
• Excellent funds protection. Your money is kept in secure wallets and monitored around the clock. Special permission is required to access the vault thanks to safe-listed IP addresses and a VPN network. The private keys get renewed every month.
• Fixed LTV and APR rates with no hidden fees. NOWLoans feature 50% loan-to-value and 10% annual percentage rates. Our loan calculator shows exactly how much you will get, what interest you need to pay, and how much to deposit as collateral.

How to take out a NOWLoan?

NOWLoans requires the following steps to get you all set:

1. Log in to your ChangeNOW account and visit the premium loans page.
2. Select your collateral and the currency you want to loan from the two dropdown menus at the top. Our exchange supports over 20 different assets as collateral.
3. Enter the collateral amount that you want to deposit or the desired loan you wish to take out. 
4. The calculator will automatically display the annual interest rate (APR) that you owe at the end of the loan period.
5. Click on the ‘Get Loan’ button, and enter the address where your loan will be paid out.
6. Confirm that all loan details are correct and click on confirm. 
7. ChangeNOW will show you a deposit address where the collateral needs to be deposited. 
8. The system will recognize any incoming transaction and ask you to confirm it with your phone number. 
9. Once the transaction has been confirmed on the blockchain, your loaned assets will be released to the chosen wallet address. 

Why do I need NOWLoans?

Crypto loans allow our customers to profit both in bull and bear markets without selling their valuable coins.

How to take advantage of a bull market

Here is an example of how NOWLoans can be beneficial when the market is on the rise:

• Imagine that you want to deposit 1 Bitcoin as collateral to take out a loan in USDT. Let’s say the price of one Bitcoin is $40.000, for example. In that case, you will receive 20.000 USDT as a loan due to ChangeNOW’s 50% loan-to-value rate.
• You can then take that $20.000 and buy Bitcoin with it. 
• Imagine that after four months, when the value has appreciated, you are satisfied with your gains. You decide to sell your previously purchased coins for $26.000, for example. 
• Close your loan contract and pay the $660 interest that you owe. 
• Your Bitcoin collateral will be returned after paying the interest, and you are going home with an additional $5.400 of profit. 

What to do in a bear market

When there is a bear market, you can take out a NOWLoan and short Bitcoin:

• You can send, for example, 80.000 USDT or USDC to get a loan in Bitcoin. 
• If one Bitcoin is valued at $40.000, your 80.000 USDT collateral will get you one BTC as a loan thanks to our fixed LTV rates.
• Since you expect the prices to drop, you can sell the loaned Bitcoin sum for $40.000 and wait until the bull market kicks in. 
• Let’s assume that after a month, Bitcoin’s price has decreased to $32.000/coin, so you decide to buy back BTC for $40.000. Due to the decrease in the coin’s value, you will get more Bitcoin for the same investment.  
• After the purchase, you can close your loan and pay the indicated interest rate. A 10% APR requires that you buy 1.0083 BTC for 32.265 USDT in total.
• After the loan is paid back, your 80.000 USDT collateral will be returned, and you get to pocket $7.735 on the price movements. 

Important notes

Each deposited collateral has a liquidation price (LP). If the asset's value drops below the liquidation level, the collateral will be liquidated, and the loan will be closed. But don’t worry. ChangeNOW will send multiple notifications informing you that your collateral is reaching its liquidation price. This will give you enough time to decide your course of action.

With NOWLoans, you can loan as much crypto as you want. There are no maximum limits, but the minimum amount is usually around $100 worth of crypto. 

Please note that any loan shorter than 30 days will require an extra $100 as a closing fee.