> their business model makes perfect sense

Well they can't make money because all the other exchanges offer better fees/lower spreads since they're loaning customer money out. They'll never be big enough to actually makea. profit while there are shady exchanges offering a better product(until it collapses).

There aren't many compliant exchanges operating in the US, though; Coinbase seriously even raised their fees a couple years ago because they thought they could do so, even while other exchanges are trying to lower them: they aren't merely competing on fees.

Cryptocurrencies are not everything.

A week ago someone could have said that about FTX. Loaning customer assets was explicitly disallowed in their TOS, and was not something I had even heard rumors they were doing (though I'm not that up on crypto rumors).