DeFi
Alameda liquidators lose $11.5M due to DeFi liquidations over 2 weeks
Over $4 million of losses were preventable if liquidators closed positions instead of pulling collateral, according to Arkham Intelligence.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 2 min read
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Alameda liquidators hit with liquidation for second time in 3 days
Alameda Research's liquidator positions have been liquidated twice in less than four days due to forcibly closing leveraged positions.
Tokenization
Aave founder offloads entire LDO bag over 12 months for a total of $2.4M
Aave founder Stani Kulechov was given 2 million LDO tokens as an early investor in December 2020, which he held for a year and began selling at the end of 2021.
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Crypto
CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Bitcoin hash ribbon points at miner capitulation as holders increase
Bitcoin and Ethereum make up 91% of Bitfinex reserves, U.S. Senators want FTX executives to be held accountable for the FTX crash, and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.
DeFi
Aave developers to get $16.8M in retroactive funding
The developers submitted a proposal to the DAO on Aug. 10 requesting funds to cover payments for development work done over the past 12 months.
DeFi
Aave votes to pause ETH borrowing following concerns of users trying to maximize ETHPoW airdrops
A governance proposal on Aave has been passed to suspend ETH borrowing following detailed simulations of high utilization of ETH caused by users attempting to receive an ETHPoW airdrop.
DAOs
Aave DAO urges members to commit support for Ethereum’s PoS merge via governance proposal
Aave developers believe that no Ethereum fork running on an alternative consensus can effectively sustain a viable Aave market.
Censorship
Aave confirms TRM Labs API blocked “dusted” Ethereum wallets – access restored
Users regain access to Aave's front end after compliance API flagged Tornado Cash-dusted wallets.
Censorship
DeFi protocols Aave, Uniswap, Balancer, ban users following OFAC sanctions on Tornado Cash
Decentralization may be under attack as Aave, Uniswap, Balancer and more reportedly ban wallets which have interacted with Tornado Cash. A centralized dataset created by TRM Labs appears to be responsible for the accounts being banned.
