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Crypto lender Babel Finance halts withdrawals due to liquidity pressures
17.6.2022
Hong Kong-based asset manager Babel Finance is the latest crypto lending firm to signal the growing crisis of the cryptocurrency lending industry amid the bear market
Babel Finance Suspends Withdrawals, Citing 'Unusual Liquidity Pressures'
17.6.2022
Crypto lender Babel Finance is the latest company to freeze withdrawals following speculation about the possible collapse of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital
Foresight Ventures Launches 200m Foresight Secondary Fund I to Invest in Private Round Crypto Assets
17.6.2022
Foresight Ventures launches 200m Foresight Secondary Fund I to invest in private round crypto assets that are looking to access liquidity during current volatile market conditions. The fund is launched with Bitget Exchange as the largest single LP. Current market conditions have not diminished...
Self-Custody Is More Than a Feature – Dennis Jarvis, CEO of Bitcoin.com
16.6.2022
While markets are going up, people get more comfortable putting their cryptoassets into trusted third parties such as centralized exchanges and centralized lending platforms that promise increasingly enticing returns. The good times never last, though. As markets peak and monetary policy tightens...
Liquidity provider asks platforms to freeze 3AC funds to recover assets after litigation
16.6.2022
Danny Yuan said that their team detected that $1 million was missing from their company's funds at Three Arrows Capital (3AC)
Do Kwon dismisses allegation of cashing out $2.7B from Terra (LUNA), UST
12.6.2022
The rumor surfaced after a Twitter thread by @FatManTerra shared the alleged details on how Kwon, along with Terra influencers, managed to drain funds while artificially maintaining the liquidity
Anchorage Spearheads Crypto Custody Exchange Network to Enhance Trading, Liquidity
9.6.2022
Anchorage and crypto companies including Binance.US created an exchange network for institutional investors
Osmosis DEX Hacked for USD 5M, Team Denies Liquidity Pools Being 'Completely Drained'
8.6.2022
Osmosis, a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain with a decentralized exchange (DEX) application within the Cosmos (ATOM) ecosystem, has been exploited to the tune of some USD 5m.
The project's official Twitter account confirmed the hack but denied allegations that liquidity pools were completely...
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Dumps Below $30K as Morgan Stanley Calls Out Liquidity Pressures
7.6.2022
The latest moves in crypto markets in context for June and 7, 2022
Cell Protocol Wants to 'Democratize' Liquidity in DeFi
6.6.2022
The team, finalists during Web 3 Pitch Fest, wants to expand the network "horizontally and vertically" across exchanges and blockchains
Staked Ether Discount After Terra Collapse a Sign of Liquidity Crunch in Crypto
2.6.2022
The price gap between the locked-up ether (stETH) and spot ether (ETH) might be a sign of traders demanding compensation for Ethereum’s "Merge" risks, a FundStrat analyst said
DeFi protocols launch stablecoins to lure new users and liquidity, but does it work?
1.6.2022
In the wake of UST’s collapse, several DeFi platforms launched their own stablecoins to lasso new users and liquidity but are investors willing to take on the risk in return for 20% APY?
Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Launches Web3 Services Suite
20.5.2022
Fireblocks, a crypto custody service provider, is expanding its services with the launch of an institutional suite of Web3 services. This suite will allow customers to leverage liquidity from different exchanges, and mint NFTs. The service, which has already onboarded several names in the industry...
Institutional DeFi Enabler? Data Firm Kaiko Probes DEX Liquidity With New Product
19.5.2022
The data feed unpacks what’s what in Uniswap, SushiSwap, Curve Finance and Balancer asset pools
First Mover Asia: Pine Wants to Test the Liquidity of the NFT Market; Cryptos Are Well-Red
19.5.2022
The number of users on NFT markets is at its lowest point this year, but still higher than in 2021. The crypto lending platform sees an opportunity
BIFI gains 100%+ after Beefy Finance adds new vaults and stablecoin liquidity pools
16.5.2022
12 new vaults, quad-stablecoin liquidity pools and an integration with Oasis Network could be the factors behind BIFI’s current triple digit gain
Lido Deploys Additional Curve Pool to Improve Liquidity Around Bonded ETH Peg
13.5.2022
On Friday, the value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols dropped to a low of $110.35 billion after there was more than $200 billion total value locked (TVL) eight days ago on May 5. One specific defi protocol called Lido, a liquid staking platform and the second largest defi...
Bancor 3 goes live with impairment loss protection for liquidity providers
11.5.2022
Bancor’s new liquidity mining strategy promises to bring organic on-chain liquidity and make DeFi staking easier for DAOs
Anchor Protocol rebounds sharply after falling 70% in just two months — what's next for ANC?
7.5.2022
The total value locked inside the Anchor Protocol's liquidity pools reached an all-time high earlier this week
Moody’s: Cryptocurrencies Unlikely to Help Russia Evade Sanctions
7.5.2022
Russia’s ability to employ cryptocurrencies to circumvent international sanctions is restricted by the limited size of the crypto market, according to Moody’s. Despite increased use in small transactions, low liquidity is another factor preventing Russians from exploiting the utility...