Michael Egorov’s $100 Million Position, A Risk To Curve Finance And DeFi?
Following the recent exploit of Curve Finance pools, there have been genuine concerns about the stability of the decentralized exchange and the
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Bitcoin Rebounds to $29.2K, Recovering From DeFi Fears; CRV Jumps 5%, XRP Rises
Ether (ETH), the second largest crypto in market value, was recently changing hands at $1,850, off 0.3% from Tuesday same time. SOL and ADA, the tokens of smart contracts platforms Solana and Cardano, were a few fractions of a percentage point in the red, while Ripple's XRP was up
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Curve liquidation risk poses systemic threat to DeFi even as founder scurries to repay loans
On July 30, Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange on Ethereum, suffered a hack due to a vulnerability in certain pools built using the Vyper programming language.The price of Curve DAO (CRV) dropped 20.91% on the day of the hack, falling to a two-month low of $0.58. The next day, the
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DeFi Died and We Didn’t Even Notice
There’s a real trend within crypto media and on Crypto Twitter to discuss any time something goes wrong in the industry as just another chaotic day. We all have brain worms from being online, ha ha, and cannot even comprehend the disappearance of $70 million anymore, ha ha. Is financial
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How DeFi Protocols are Building More Granular and Extensible Capabilities
In the coming months, we can expect more DeFi protocols to divide their functionalities into extensible, programmable micro-primitives. This will lead to a DeFi landscape that is more granular, flexible, and developer-friendly, but also more complex. If DeFi is to become a true parallel alternative to traditional finance, primitives such
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Curve Finance (CRV) Liquidation Threat Spooks DeFi Protocols
Another area of focus for teams has been reinforcing the links that lock DeFi protocols together. Last night, a representative for the stablecoin-focused Reserve Protocol, which builds on top of DeFi majors including Lido, Compound and Rocketpool, asked in their respective Discords for help to establish “a more robust incident
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DeFi Platform Term Finance Brings Fixed Rate Lending to Ethereum
Short term, fixed rate loans can now work in harmony with Aave and Compound's "ultimate liquidity" model. Source
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Curve Founder’s $168M Stash Is Under Stress, Creating a Risk for DeFi as a Whole
Curve CEO Michael Egorov pledged 34% of CRV’s total market cap to back loans across DeFi protocols. A forced liquidation would result in selling at a time when prices are already falling. Source
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After the Curve Attack: What's Next for DeFi?
The $70 million weekend exploit of major platforms, including Curve, come at a time when developers are discussing changes to the prevailing AMM liquidity model. Source
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Vyper vulnerability exposes DeFi ecosystem to stress tests
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are undergoing a stress test following a critical vulnerability was found on versions of Vyper programming language, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrencies on July 30.A number of pools using Vyper 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 have been exploited due to a
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