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The cryptocurrency-focused financial services firm won an auction to buy the company from crypto lender Celsius, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Crypto Markets Today is CryptoX’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto markets. Source
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However, more Nexus funds appear to be endangered. Orthogonal Trading’s defaulted debt on Maple’s wrapped ether credit pool amounts to some $5 million (3,900 wETH). On top of that, embattled market maker Auros Global failed to repay a $3.1 million (2,400 wETH) loan and has another $7.5 million (6,000 wETH)
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Orthogonal Trading was due to pay back a $10 million USDC stablecoin loan on Dec. 4. Source
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Blockchain-based institutional capital marketplace Maple Finance announced on Dec 5 that it plans to cut all ties with Orthogonal Trading due to alleged misrepresentation of finances following the collapse of FTX. According to Maple Finance, it decided to cut all ties with the trading firm because it misrepresented its finances over the
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According to a report from Orthogonal Credit, a delegate of Maple Finance’s lending pools, the firm decided “earlier this year” not to lend to Alameda Research, FTX’s quantitative trading firm. Orthogonal said through “due diligence” it “identified a number of key weaknesses” associated with Alameda. Orthogonal Credit Found ‘Key Weaknesses’ Tied
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Struggling Bitcoin Miners Are Flocking to Maple Finance’s $300M Lending Pool Original Source
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"Recent market headwinds have caused lenders to pull back, while traditional financing vehicles have been slower to engage this sector," said Sidney Powell, CEO and co-founder of Maple, in a press release on Tuesday. "Miners play an essential role in growing the crypto ecosystem and local economies, and we are
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The Maven 11 pool will provide loans to crypto market makers, or large firms that provide enough money to exchanges to stabilize trading. Borrowers for the pool include Wintermute, Bastian, Flow Traders, Nibbio and Folkvang. In return, the lenders will receive yield from the market makers. Original Source
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Celsius, a crypto lending platform best known for paying out yield considerably higher than bank savings accounts on stablecoin deposits, announced Thursday that it is committing $30 million of wrapped ether (wETH) to Maple Finance’s liquidity pools. Source
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Digital asset lending platform Celsius has become the first pool delegate from the centralized finance market to deploy a crypto-centric lending service on Maple Finance, utilizing the latter’s smart contract and blockchain infrastructure to facilitate a $30 million pool to institutional investors.Celsius succeeds existing pool delegates BlockTower, Orthogonal Trading, Maven
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