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Covenants are borrower-specific financial and operational rules that govern how a facility can be used after it is approved and funded. They define the limits, reporting obligations, and escalation triggers Nexio uses to monitor borrower performance throughout the life of the loan. They are also a core part of Nexio’s ongoing credit discipline after a facility is funded. Covenants translate underwriting decisions into measurable operating requirements, giving Nexio and participating lenders a way to track borrower performance, respond to deterioration early, and enforce remedies when conditions change.

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Why Nexio Uses Covenant-Based Credit Controls

Many institutional borrowers use BTC financing for market-making, arbitrage, treasury, or hedging activity, which means the loan has to be monitored as an ongoing credit exposure rather than treated as a static transaction. In those cases, Nexio treats the borrower as a credit counterparty rather than as an anonymous wallet that can only be managed through automatic liquidation. That means lender protection depends on whether Nexio and the participating lenders can:
  • Underwrite the borrower and its strategy before funding
  • Define financial and operational covenants specific to that borrower
  • Require periodic reporting and prompt notice of material events
  • Limit draws, pause activity, or require remediation when risk increases
  • Enforce payment, workout, and recovery rights through legal agreements

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Covenant Types

Each borrower is bound by a covenant package tailored to its facility terms, credit profile, strategy, and operating model. Nexio’s Risk and Governance Committee reviews the covenant framework as part of facility approval. There are two types of covenants: 1) Financial Covenants:
  • Liquidity requirements: Borrowers may be required to maintain minimum cash, collateral, or unencumbered asset buffers relative to outstanding BTC borrowings, although this is not necessarily enforced.
  • Leverage limits: Facility terms can cap overall leverage or risk concentration across venues, strategies, or counterparties.
  • Utilization and draw limits: Borrowers can be restricted in how much of an approved facility may be drawn or rolled at any point in time.
  • Performance triggers: Material deterioration in financial condition, losses, or capital position can trigger additional review or remedial action.
2) Operational Covenants:
  • Reporting cadence: Borrowers must provide periodic balance, position, and operating updates at the frequency defined in the facility documents.
  • Venue and counterparty restrictions: Borrowers may be limited to approved exchanges, custodians, brokers, or trading counterparties.
  • Notice obligations: Borrowers must promptly disclose material events such as regulatory issues, liquidity stress, operational incidents, or covenant pressure.

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How Covenant Enforcement Works

Nexio monitors covenant compliance through borrower reporting, internal review, and facility servicing controls.
  1. Data collection: Nexio receives borrower reports, position data, payment updates, and any required supporting information under the facility’s reporting schedule.
  2. Threshold testing: The servicing and risk functions compare that information against the borrower’s approved covenant package and facility terms.
  3. Escalation: If a covenant is breached or trending toward breach, Nexio can issue a notice, require additional reporting, or pause further draws while the issue is reviewed.
  4. Cure or remediation: During the cure period, the borrower may be required to reduce exposure, improve liquidity, repay part of the facility, or satisfy other corrective measures.
  5. Default response: If the breach is not cured, Nexio can apply the remedies available under the legal agreements, including suspension, acceleration, enforcement, or workout procedures.
All covenant events, borrower notices, payment issues, and remediation steps are recorded through Nexio’s servicing, legal, and reporting workflows so lenders and internal stakeholders can track facility performance over time.

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What This Protects Against

This framework is intended to reduce the risk that lenders are surprised by borrower deterioration or left dependent on a single control point. Excess collateral can be helpful when it exists and is legally perfected, but it does not eliminate market gap risk, custody risk, jurisdictional risk, or documentation risk. Covenant-based institutional credit addresses a different problem: making the borrower observable, contractually bound, and operationally monitored throughout the life of the facility. For that reason, Nexio evaluates undercollateralized credit as an underwriting and servicing question. The protections come from the full stack working together: diligence, legal agreements, custody controls, reporting, covenants, concentration limits, and default remedies.