It looks like you are talking about lending where the principal return is 
guaranteed by covenant at maturity. This make the net present value of the loan 
zero.

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> On May 3, 2022, at 11:03, Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev 
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello ZmnSCPxj,
> 
> Such a system will have to be publicly advertised, in the same way we see 
> centralized cryptocurrency staking shops buying ads all over the place. 
> That's how they'll make retail hodlers aware that renting out your coins in 
> this way is possible. If JoinMarket/Teleport users notice such ads appearing 
> then we could change the taker code to remove the intermediate certificate 
> keypair, and have the fidelity bond UTXO key sign the endpoint (IRC nickname 
> or onion hostname) directly. This removes the possibility of fidelity bonds 
> in cold storage. It would have to be done for privacy, and it wouldn't be too 
> bad. Right now there's no cold storage solution for fidelity bonds yet 
> JoinMarket has about 600 bitcoins locked up and advertised, which must be all 
> on hot wallets.
> 
> Best,
> CB
> 
>> On 03/05/2022 06:26, ZmnSCPxj wrote:
>> Good morning Chris,
>>> Hello ZmnSCPxj,
>>> 
>>> Renting out fidelity bonds is an interesting idea. It might happen in
>>> the situation where a hodler wants to generate yield but doesn't want
>>> the hassle of running a full node and yield generator. A big downside of
>>> it is that the yield generator income is random while the rent paid is a
>>> fixed cost, so there's a chance that the income won't cover the rent.
>> The fact that *renting* is at all possible suggests to me that the following 
>> situation *could* arise:
>> * A market of lessors arises.
>> * A surveillor creates multiple identities.
>> * Each fake identity rents separately from multiple lessors.
>> * Surveillor gets privacy data by paying out rent money to the lessor market.
>> In defiads, I and Tamas pretty much concluded that rental would happen 
>> inevitably.
>> One could say that defiads was a kind of fidelity bond system.
>> Our solution for defiads was to prioritize propagating advertisements 
>> (roughly equivalent to the certificates in your system, I think) with larger 
>> bonded values * min(bonded_time, 1 year).
>> However, do note that we did not intend defiads to be used for 
>> privacy-sensitive applications like JoinMarket/Teleport.
>> Regards,
>> ZmnSCPxj
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