🤩 Complete Maclear's free crypto courses and receive USDC!

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

No matter how much you know about something, there's always room to grow!

That's why Maclear AG gives you the opportunity to learn more about crypto and earn some USDC along the way. Just by completing the course, you can receive:

🔘 15 USDC if you received the Welcome Bonus
🔘 45 USDC if you didn't receive the Welcome Bonus

There are currently two parts of the crypto course available, and they'll be useful for both experienced crypto investors and complete beginners.

If you'd like to learn more, read the official post from Maclear AG.

🤩 Click here to start the course.

Tax administration: We see your crypto income 👀

Blockchain is public. Starting in 2026, the DAC8 directive requires crypto exchanges to share user transaction data with tax authorities.

🤩 So if you're using centralized exchanges, there's a good chance tax authorities already know about a significant part of your crypto transactions.

But keeping your crypto taxes organized isn't that difficult, especially if you use the right tool for it.

🤩 We recommend Blockpit. It supports the tax laws of over 100 countries and integrates directly with the Base blockchain—the very network that powers 8lends.

How to try it out?

🔘 Register on blockpit.io
🔘 Click "+ Integration" → select Base from the list
🔘 Enter your wallet address — Blockpit automatically pulls in all transactions
🔘 The system automatically classifies each transaction: interest income, token sales, gas fees
🔘 Generate a ready-to-file tax report compliant with your country's laws — in PDF format, ready for submission

Importing and reviewing your data is free. You only pay if you decide to generate the final report.

❗️ Important: Interest earned on loans through 8lends is generally treated as taxable income in many countries. Tax rules vary by jurisdiction, but Blockpit automatically calculates and categorizes transactions based on local requirements.

How do you handle crypto taxes in your country?

Leave 💜 if you'd give Blockpit a try!

🔋 Can't find the answer to your question on Google?

Yes, Google can answer a lot of things. But sometimes we have a very specific question that Google can't answer. And that's when we start looking for a professional who can help us find the answer.

🤩 That's why we decided to dedicate 20 minutes to you and your concerns.

Our manager is ready to have a light conversation about everything that's been bothering you personally when it comes to investing.

In 20 minutes, you'll cover:

🔘 what type of investor you are and how it affects your decisions
🔘 what investment terms suit you best
🔘 whether 8lends fits your goals (our manager will be honest about it)
🔘 which projects are available right now and which ones may fit your goals best

🗯️ DM our manager, and he'll help you figure everything out.

WE CREATE A CRYPTO WALLET FOR YOU!

From now on, if you sign up for 8lends without connecting a wallet, you can create one through Privy.

If you choose this option, the wallet is created for you automatically 🤩

🔘 With a Privy wallet, you only need USDC. You don't need anything extra to pay gas fees.

⚖️ We cover the gas fees for you.

🔘 You can top it up like any other wallet — either from a crypto exchange or another wallet.

🔘 We don't store your seed phrase. Privy does. Privy has the licenses and certifications required to operate securely. You can learn more on their official website.

🤩 This is available to all users who sign in with email, Google, or Maclear instead of connecting a wallet.

So, if you haven't signed up for 8lends yet, you can now do it without wasting time setting up a crypto wallet first.

He found a bug on our platform. What should we do?

Not long ago, we received a message from one of our users. He reviewed our smart contract on Base and discovered a vulnerability:

The issue allows an attacker to repeatedly extract funds that have already been paid out to investors through the secondary market, without any admin keys or flash loans.

On top of that, he shared a full technical report and the exploit code with us, which helped our developers fix the vulnerability.

🤩 We admit that our platform isn't perfect, and bugs may appear when we add new features and functionality to 8lends. Our developers are professionals, but even Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Tesla, and other major companies have bugs and bug bounty programs.

So, no one is completely safe from such bugs. But every serious company is ready to fix them and reward the people who find them.

🤩 That's why we're launching our own Bug Bounty Program.

The reward will depend on the complexity and severity of the bug.

🗯️ If you find one, send it to our email: support@8lends.io

WE'RE NOT A P2P LENDING PLATFORM.

P2P (peer-to-peer) sounds familiar. Everyone says it, including us.

✅ But to be more precise, 8lends is P2B (peer-to-business). Because private investors lend money not to other private individuals, but to a real business with collateral, a legal structure, and clear cash flow.

P2B isn't a Web3 invention, though. It's one of the oldest ways to borrow and lend money in human history 👇

🔘 Back in Mesopotamia, around 3000 BC, individuals lent grain and silver to merchants at interest. The Code of Hammurabi regulated the maximum rate (33% per annum on grain).

As evidence, even a specific cuneiform tablet from 1800 BC has survived:

"3⅓ silver shekels (sigloi), at an interest of 1/6 shekel and 6 grains per shekel, has Amurritum, servant of Ikun-pi-Istar, received on loan from Ilum-nasir. In the third month, she shall pay the silver."

🔘 In medieval Venice, there was a colleganza contract, and it worked like this: an investor provided capital to a merchant who set out on a sea voyage. The merchant traded, returned, and shared the profits with the investor.

In 17th-century Holland, private investors directly financed the East India Company's trading expeditions before the VOC became the first public company in the world.

People have been trading, lending, and borrowing for thousands of years! Banks are just intermediaries that have been standing between a lender and a borrower for centuries.

🤩 8lends removes this intermediary and returns this relationship between borrowers and lenders to its roots, using the power of blockchain and smart contracts.

We say P2P because it sounds familiar, but P2B is what 8lends truly is.

GUESS WHEN WE REACH $20,000,000 IN FUNDED LOANS AND WIN $1,000!

🤩 We've already reached $15,000,000 in funded loans!

So it's time to guess when we'll see $20,000,000 on our dashboard. You can track the number on our website: app.8lends.io/en.

Your goal is to guess the date and time when 8lends reaches $20,000,000 in funded loans.

🤩 The closest guess wins $1,000.

How to participate:

🔘 In the comments under this post, write down your guess. Like this: 20.07.2026, 7:25 PM CET or 20.07.2026, 19:25 CET

🔘 Leave a review about us on Google. If you already have experience investing on 8lends, you can write more about it. If you've just started, you can share your first impressions with others.

🤩 We accept guesses until 26.06. Any guess submitted after that date won't count.

If you haven't invested on 8lends yet, this is your chance to technically do it for free 🤩

So, what's your guess?

We helped 28 scammed investors recover their funds.

It's impossible to protect everyone from scammers, especially nowadays when they're literally everywhere.

🤩 That's why we highly recommend reading this post and always checking who you're talking to.

Back to the point: during the entire time 8lends has been operating, some of our users have lost money to scammers. Usually, this is considered the victim's responsibility, so platforms don't do much to help.

🤩 We want to be better.

So far, we've already helped 28 people recover access to their wallets and get their money back:

🔘 Recovered wallets: 28
🔘 Recovered funds: 32,279.79 USDC

On top of that, they continue to receive interest on their recovered investments and funds.

Please stay cautious and don't let scammers steal your money.

🗯️ If you're not sure about something, feel free to contact our official support team: @daniel_8lends, @ceviz1389, @henry_8lends

Everything you need to know about the secondary market

This is your exit option. If you need to withdraw the money you've invested, the Secondary Market is your savior.

Thanks to it, you can sell your investment position to another user and get your money back before maturity.

The buyer receives the right to all future payouts from that position.

☑️ To access the Secondary Market, go to our website and click "Secondary." You'll see all listed offers there.

How it works:

🔘 A seller lists their entire investment position, sets the price in USDC, and the position is temporarily held by the platform.

🔘 A buyer selects the position and pays the listed price. The seller pays the platform commission (10% of the sale price), receives the remaining amount in USDC, and the investment position is transferred to the buyer's wallet.

🔘 From that moment on, the buyer receives all future payouts from the position until the project ends, exactly as if they had invested from the start.

🤩 Important: Only full positions in the Funded stage can be sold. Partial sales are not available.

If the position hasn't been purchased yet, the seller can cancel the order at any time.

😉 Have you already tried the Secondary Market?

🤩 Top 21st-Century Scams

Scams generate hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

🔘 In the United States alone, people lose at least $119 billion to scammers every year.

🔘 In the UK, financial losses amount to roughly £1.3 billion annually.

Let's not make those numbers any bigger. Instead, let's look at the biggest scams of the 21st century and learn how to spot them before it's too late 👇

https://youtu.be/uOFcgQQD0tc

We're preparing something interesting for you...

Since many of you are closely following the FIFA World Cup in the USA, tell us:

🏆 Who are you cheering for, and who do you think will win the World Cup?

GUESS THE WINNERS OF THE QUARTERFINALS, SEMIFINALS, AND FINAL OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 & WIN UP TO $1,750!

🤩 Prize pool:

Quarterfinals — 4 winners × 250 USDC. Predictions are accepted from now until July 8.

Semifinals — 2 winners × 500 USDC. Predictions are accepted from July 9 until July 13.

Final — 1 winner × 1,000 USDC. Predictions are accepted from July 14 until July 18.

🤩 How to participate:

Create a banner (it doesn't have to be hand-drawn) featuring the national flag of the team you're cheering for and the 8lends logo. Attach it to your post.

Publish it on any social media platform and mention our X account with the following text:

"I'm taking a bet with @eightlends. [Your team] will reach the semifinals/final."

Once you've completed everything, comment "Done ✅" under this post.

🤩 How we choose the winners:

If there are more than 4/2/1 predictions for the team that advances to the next stage, the posts with the highest number of genuine reactions (likes, comments, reposts, and saves) will win.

🤩 Reactions generated by bots or fake accounts won't be counted.

🤩 When we'll announce the winners:

Quarterfinals — July 11
Semifinals — July 15
Final — July 19

🚩 Get the logo from our official website

1 July 2026

Europe's MiCA transition period is coming to an end. This marks a turning point for the European crypto market, and the end of the road for some players.

❗️ From this date, any company providing crypto services to EU clients without a CASP license will be breaking the law. No country has the right to extend the deadline. On June 23, ESMA issued a clear statement: unlicensed providers must stop onboarding new clients, stop marketing their services, and only process withdrawals and close positions.

According to industry estimates, up to 80% of the exchanges currently operating in Europe could leave the market.

But it's important to understand who this deadline actually affects. MiCA regulates crypto-asset service providers, exchanges, custodians, and brokers.

🤩 Crowdlending is structured differently, and that's how 8lends is built.

🔘 The platform doesn't rely on a single legal entity. Instead, each role is handled by a separate company. Operations are managed by CLEARCHAIN CORP, a company registered as a Money Services Business with FINTRAC (Canada). This registration explicitly covers crowdfunding and virtual currency transactions.

This status was obtained in advance and remains valid until August 2028. While the market is still assessing the impact of July 1, the platform's legal framework has already been established and confirmed for the next two years. Its operations are covered by a specialized license within its own regulatory category, not a CASP license. This means the deadline doesn't change the legal basis on which the platform operates.

🔘 The software is owned by another company, Alpha Systems LLC. It provides the code, interfaces, and integrations, and nothing more. It's not a lender, a settlement provider, or a trading platform.

Each legal entity is responsible for its own role and operates within the scope of its legal status.

🇪🇺 What does this mean for EU investors?

Nothing changes. July 1 does not introduce any re-registration requirements, restrictions, or operational changes for existing clients. The platform continues to work as usual. Access for EU users who joined the platform voluntarily remains available under Article 61 of MiCA, subject to standard KYC/KYB and AML procedures.

🤔 What should we expect next?

As the product line expands, some future products will go beyond the current scope of 8lends and require a CASP license. So, we're planning to obtain a MiCA license for new products when they appear, not retroactively for the existing ones.

👍 MiCA cleans up the crypto space.

July 1 neither creates nor destroys anything. It reveals who has been building the infrastructure all these years, and who's got nothing underneath.

This is just an overview post, so it doesn't cover every aspect of the MiCA discussion.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments. We'll gladly discuss them with you.