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Liquidity Crunch Spreads to Crypto Lending as Institutional Borrowers Max Out Credit Pools

Alameda Research has been a diligent user of decentralized lending protocols, originating hundreds of millions in uncollateralized loans so far. Its current outstanding debt on DeFi protocols, however, is rather small compared to earlier this year, meaning fewer investor funds are in danger if Alameda defaults on the loans. Source

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Yuga Labs, Circle, SkyBridge Among Investments FTX Ventures Made Prior to Liquidity Issues

Among the biggest names in which FTX Ventures invested were Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs, USDC stablecoin issuer Circle, layer 1 blockchains Near Protocol and Sui, crypto lender BlockFi and two different funding rounds for the Aptos blockchain, according to crypto data analytics firm Cryptorank. The exact number

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Bitcoin price swings to over $20K as Binance helps FTX ‘liquidity crunch’

Bitcoin (BTC) saw major volatility after the Nov. 8 Wall Street open as turmoil over crypto exchange FTX punished markets further.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBinance hints at plan to buy FTXData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $19,244 on Bitstamp, marking the pair’s lowest levels in two

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Binance CEO announces intent to acquire FTX to ‘help cover the liquidity crunch’

Following Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s announcement that the company would liquidate its position in FTX Token (FTT), FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as 'SBF,' took to social media seemingly in an effort to quell rumors of conflict between the major crypto exchanges.According to a Nov. 8 Twitter thread from

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Bitcoin could become the foundation of DeFi with more single-sided liquidity pools

For many years, Ethereum reigned supreme over the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, with the blockchain serving as the destination of choice for many of the most innovative projects serving up their take on decentralized finance. More recently, however, DeFi projects have started to crop up across multiple ecosystems, challenging Ethereum’s

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How low liquidity led to Mango Markets losing over $116 million

It would seem that the hackers used an “oracle price manipulation” tactic in the exploit on the Solana-based DeFi network, as indicated by a tweet sent by the official account for the Mango cryptocurrency exchange.In mid-October, traders took advantage of a vulnerability in the decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform Mango

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