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Finance

Curve Finance Drained of $50M While CRV Token Sinks 12% in Latest DeFi Exploit

More than $100M-worth of cryptocurrency could be at risk due to a bug impacting Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the center of Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem.

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Videos

USDT Selling on Curve, Uniswap Spooks Traders Amid Bitcoin Drop

Millions worth of tether (USDT) stablecoins appeared to be selling off on popular Uniswap and Curve pools Thursday morning, sparking early signs of concern among traders. USDT, which usually trades around $1, lost its peg to the U.S. currency and dropped as low as $0.9968. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Markets

DeFi Protocol Curve Finance Now Lets Users Mint crvUSD for Staked Ether

The governance proposal for the crvUSD minting was passed early on Thursday.

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Tech

DeFi Protocol Curve Finance Deploys Native Stablecoin on Ethereum Mainnet

The deployment marks a major milestone for the public release of Curve’s highly anticipated native stablecoin.

Ratings company S&P Global has started ranking stablecoins' ability to hold their pegs. (eswaran arulkumar/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Curve’s $500M Stablecoin Pool Hammered as Traders Flee USDC

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is causing turmoil in crypto stablecoin markets.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Stablecoins Seem Unattractive as the Gap Between 3pool's APY and Treasury Yields Widens

The annualized percentage yield from providing stablecoin liquidity on Curve's 3pool, also known as DeFi's savings bank account, is nearly 250 basis points less than the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note.

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Tech

DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Will Let Anyone Create Curve Reward Farms

Yearn was among the first yield aggregators in the now-mature decentralized-finance ecosystem.

Piggy bank bent forward change money coins (Andre Taissin/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

DeFi Tool Convex to Make Changes to Staking Service for Curve Token Rewards

Curve tokens (CRV) are issued as yield farming rewards to liquidity providers on Curve Finance, and can be converted into vote-escrowed CRV (veCRV).

Piggy bank bent forward change money coins (Andre Taissin/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CME Group Teaming With CF Benchmarks for 3 New DeFi Rates and Indices

Pricing will initially come from a group of six crypto exchanges.

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Finance

Aave Supporters Say Lending Freeze Will Help Transition the Network

Community members voted Monday to freeze 17 assets in the Ethereum liquidity pool to lower risk within the DeFi protocol ahead of upgrading the network to its third version.

The development lab overseeing lending protocol Aave, which means "ghost" in Finnish, is seeking $16 million from the Aave community. (Unsplash)

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