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- Compound Caps Borrowing Levels for 10 Assets to Reduce Risk
- Aave Decommissions Low Liquidity Asset Pools To Protect Against Attacks
- BlockFi Files For Bankruptcy
- Abracadabra Calls On Sushi For Emergency Assistance As Faulty Oracle Places $10M At Risk
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DeFi Lending
Compound Caps Borrowing Levels for 10 Assets to Reduce Risk
COMP Tokenholders Vote to Limit Debt After Aave Freezes Lending Pools
By Owen Fernau
Another DeFi lending protocol is reducing risk a day after Aave passed a proposal to freeze 17 of its lending pools. Holders of Compound Finance’s COMP token voted unanimously to cap the borrowing level of 10 assets supported by the protocol.
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DeFi Lending
Aave Decommissions Low Liquidity Asset Pools To Protect Against Attacks
Large CRV Trade Left DeFi Lender With $1.6M Bad Debt Last Week
By Samuel Haig
Aave, the leading DeFi money market protocol with over $5B in total value locked, has frozen multiple low-liquidity asset pools in a bid to protect against attacks like the one targeting Aave’s CRV pool that caused the protocol to incur $1.6M worth of bad debt last week.
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FTX Fallout
BlockFi Files For Bankruptcy
Crypto Lender Paused Withdrawals On Nov. 10 Citing FTX Exposure
By Aleksandar Gilbert 18 hours ago
The collapse of FTX has felled another crypto business, with centralized lender BlockFi filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday. The move comes two weeks after BlockFi suspended withdrawals due to “the lack of clarity on the status of FTX.com, FTX US, and Alameda.”
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DeFi Lending
Abracadabra Calls On Sushi For Emergency Assistance As Faulty Oracle Places $10M At Risk
renBTC Cauldron Could Accrue Bad Debt If Open Positions Are Not Closed
By Samuel Haig
The community of Abracadabra, a crypto lending protocol and issuer of the MIM stablecoin, has called on SushiSwap to make changes to two of its Bento vaults holding $10M worth of Abacadbra users’ assets that could be at risk.
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Opinion
Loyalty NFTs Have the Power to Drive the Next Bull Run
Now That NFTs Have Proven Their Utility in a Very Tough Year Comes the Next Phase
Guest writer Huy Nguyen makes a case for NFTs’ usefulness…
It may not feel like it, but crypto has reached yet another inflection point. The next growth spurt in crypto will come from tokens supporting loyalty programs that motivate community engagement, not from yield-generating protocols. NFTs will serve as the foundation for these loyalty programs, which corporations like Starbucks, Disney, and Adidas have already introduced.
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