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DeFi Risk-Sharing Protocol Nexus Expects Loss on Maple Credit Pool Investment as FTX Contagion Widens

Nexus Mutual, which offers an insurance alternative for decentralized finance traders, deposited some $19 million in ETH to Maple’s wrapped ether credit pool, which was rocked by Orthogonal Trading’s recent default.

Posiciones cortas de ether registraron liquidaciones de $200 millones. (deepblue4you/Getty images)

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FTX Contagion Spreads as Orthogonal Trading Gets Default Notice for $36M Debt on Maple Finance

Creditor M11 Credit issued a default notice to Orthogonal Trading for $36 million of loans, while Maple Finance severed all ties with Orthogonal for misrepresenting its financial position.

Crypto hedge fund Orthogonal Trading appears to be the next firm becoming insolvent after crypto exchange FTX's implosion. (Tom Wilson/Unsplash)

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Crypto Trader Auros Global Misses Payment on DeFi Loan as FTX Contagion Spreads

The company missed payment on a 2,400 wrapped ether loan worth $3 million from a M11 Credit pool on Maple Finance.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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DeFi Lender Compound Tightens Borrowing Limits After Aave Exploit Attempt

A passed proposal introduces borrowing caps for five cryptocurrencies and sets stricter loan limits for another five.

Compound Finance will enforce new limits for borrowing to lower risk on the platform. (Unsplash)

Finance

Jihan Wu's Crypto Lender Matrixport Looks to Raise $100M at $1.5B Valuation

Matrixport has $5 billion in trading volume every month, along with $10 billion in assets under management and custody.

Bitdeer founder Jihan Wu (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Lender BlockFi Updates Users on Platform, FTX Exposure

The company denied rumors that a majority of its assets are custodied at collapsed crypto exchange FTX.

Zac Prince, CEO de BlockFi, en Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk)

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Justin Sun Moved $6M Stablecoins From TrueFi Lending Pools Before FTX-Alameda Bankruptcy

Bankrupt trading firm Alameda Research has $7.2 million in outstanding debt from a TrueFi credit facility.

Justin Sun attending Consensus 2019 (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

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

Multiple crypto investment firms received a “warning” label on lending protocol Clearpool for draining almost the maximum amount of credit from their credit pools.

Several crypto investment firms drained almost all of their available credit from their credit pools on Clearpool. (Clearpool)

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Lending Protocol TrueFi Issues Notice of Default to Invictus Capital for Failing to Repay Loan

Archblock, the underwriter of the loan, joins the court-advised liquidation process of crypto hedge fund Invictus' parent company in an attempt to recover losses for investors.

Bitcoin Corporate Treasury Adoption (Shutterstock)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Solend Struck by $1.26M Oracle Exploit

The Stable, Coin98 and Kamino lending pools have all been disabled.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)