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Curve founder repays Aave loan, still owes $42m to defi lenders

Michael Egorov, the co- founder of Curve Finance, has completely settled his debt on Aave after depositing 68 million CRV, equivalent to approximately $35 million, to Silo. Egorov withdrew 10.7 million of crvUSD, Curve’s decentralized stablecoin, from the non-custodial lending protocol following his CRV deposit, according to on-chain analytics provider, Lookonchain. After that, he swapped them for USDT before repaying his debt on Aave, a decentralized lending and borrowing protocol on Ethereum.  You might also like: Curve Finance exploit triggers massive MEV rewards Still, the Curve founder still owed approximately $42 million to four defi lenders , including Silo, Fraxlend, Inverse, and Cream Finance, collateralized by 253.7 million CRV valued at $132 million. Michael Egorov deposited 68M $CRV ($35.5M) to #Silo and borrowed 10.77M $crvUSD in the past 2 days. Then swapped $crvUSD for $USDT and repaid the all debt on #Aave. He currently has 253.67M $CRV($132.52M) in coll...

A week filled with exploits and uncertainty for DeFi: Finance Redefined

DeFi saw another multimillion-dollar rug pull this past week, and the Multichain saga continues to spiral out of control. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. After a bullish April, May was another month of exploits , rug pulls and hacks, bringing back uncertainty to DeFi. The most prominent headline marker in the past week was the Multichain protocol. The cross-chain DeFi protocol’s delayed node upgrade created a spiral impact and tanked its token price by 30%. The Multichain protocol saga impacted multiple DeFi protocols, forcing Binance to suspend deposits for ten bridged tokens on May 25 after days of stuck transactions. Multichain aside, the week was dominated by hacks, exploits and rug pulls. A crypto project allegedly ran off with $32 million of customer’s funds, DeFi protocol WDZD Swap was exploited for $1.1 million, and a bug...