{"id":650690,"date":"2026-08-30T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=843359"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:33:28","slug":"russias-largest-bank-sber-eyes-btc-eth-usdt-for-crypto-backed-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/russias-largest-bank-sber-eyes-btc-eth-usdt-for-crypto-backed-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Largest Bank Sber Eyes BTC, ETH, USDT for Crypto-Backed Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sberbank-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"sberbank\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Russia\u2019s largest bank plans to expand crypto-backed lending by accepting bitcoin, ether, and tether as collateral after new regulations take full effect. Sberbank says the initiative will build on its digital asset loan pilot. Sberbank Plans to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Sber, Russia\u2019s largest bank, majority-owned by the government, plans to accept bitcoin, ether, and tether [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s largest bank plans to expand crypto-backed lending by accepting bitcoin, ether, and tether as collateral after new regulations take full effect. Sberbank says the initiative will build on its digital asset loan pilot. Sberbank Plans to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Sber, Russia\u2019s largest bank, majority-owned by the government, plans to accept bitcoin, ether, and tether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-650690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}