😬 DeFi Investors Brace for Liquidations as MakerDAO and Aave Call in Collateral

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News

• DeFi Investors Brace for Liquidations as MakerDAO and Aave Call in Collateral

• Cancel Your Old OpenSea Listings Or Risk Your Precious NFTs Being Spirited Away

• Startup Aims to Give Crypto Investment Clubs a Web3 Makeover

• Polymarket Shuts Out U.S. Traders to Comply with CFTC Settlement

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• The Defiant Weekly: DeFi 2.0 is dead, its spirit lives on in Fantom ve(3,3)

Links

• Fantom Becomes Third-Largest DeFi Protocol by Value Locked: CoinDesk

• The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?: Ethereum Foundation

• JPMorgan Chase closes Uniswap founder's bank accounts: The Block

• 5 reasons to be excited for the bear market [LITE]: Bankless

• @tns_money, a platform that helps you claim your favorite .𝘂𝘀𝘁 domain and create your on-chain profile with TNS, has announced to integrate with @leap_terra: Terra

• Maker Protocol Changes DIRECT-AAVEV2-DAI debt ceiling: 133.815M → 183.815M DAI: MakerDAO

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• Uniswap Crosses Milestone With Greater ETH/Stablecoin Volume than Coinbase or Binance

• OlympusDAO Created a Breakthrough DeFi Model – Now It’s Down 93% and Called a ‘Ponzi’

• LooksRare Surges to $7B Valuation as Torrid Volumes Fuel Staking Rewards

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DeFi Markets

😬 DeFi Investors Brace for Liquidations as MakerDAO and Aave Call in Collateral

LEVERAGE Now comes the liquidation phase. As crypto investors reckon with a 45% plunge in the value of the crypto market since November’s all-time high, the focus is now turning to the impact on leverage many investors use to amplify their earnings. Key platforms are liquidating the collateral users put up to secure borrowings, usually made in a stablecoin like DAI. 

SPIKED Liquidations spiked to 1,692 on Aave, DeFi’s largest protocol, on Jan. 23. That’s the highest since the crash in late May 2021, according to data from The Defiant Terminal. 

Liquidations on Compound, Aave, and MakerDAO in the last year. Source: The Defiant Terminal

MAXED OUT MakerDAO, another of DeFi’s largest protocols, had its own local high of 95 liquidations which came on Jan. 22. Like Aave, that was the highest mark since late May for the protocol. While the number of Aave liquidations outpaced Maker’s, the reverse was the case for USD-denominated value of the liquidations — Maker hit $118.8M in liquidations on Jan. 21, while Aave maxed out in terms of daily highs at $61.13M on Jan. 22, according to The Defiant Terminal. 

👉READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DEFIANT.IO👈

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NFT Marketplaces

🪲 Cancel Your Old OpenSea Listings Or Risk Your Precious NFTs Being Spirited Away

BUG A ‘bug’ discovered a few weeks ago in OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, enabled more than $1M worth of non-fungible tokens to be bought at huge discounts on Jan. 24.

COOL CAT A user who goes by jpegdegenlove managed to acquire two Bored Apes, two Mutant Apes, one Cyberkongz Genesis and a Cool Cat for a total of 57.31 ETH ($137K). Quite the feat, considering the cheapest Bored Ape NFT currently costs 93 ETH ($223K).

SOLD All six NFTs were subsequently sold for 390 ETH ($936K), netting a profit of over $700K.

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Web3

🪜 Startup Aims to Give Crypto Investment Clubs a Web3 Makeover

NEWS People are teaming up all over crypto, but, according to the founders of Syndicate Protocol, investors lack web3 native ways to do so. “I’ve been an investor for eight years in the crypto and fintech space, and I’ve come to realize that literally builds the world,” Ian Lee, co-founder of Syndicate, told The Defiant in a phone call. 

FRICTION If it’s too expensive to get an investing group started or if the tools are too cumbersome, that friction will prevent people from getting involved who otherwise might have done so. “If this is the next internet, we need more people to participate in investing and building that internet for the world,” Lee said.

COMPLIANCE To that end, Syndicate released its first product on Tuesday: A platform for easily and simply setting up an investment club in a web3-native way. It is designed to keep track of all the club’s accounting and compliance needs while giving members around the clock visibility to its performance.

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Regulators

🚪Polymarket Shuts Out U.S. Traders to Comply with CFTC Settlement

U.S. TRADERS Polymarket has shut U.S. traders out of its bets, but the prediction market remains live everywhere else. That’s the company’s solution following its recent settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

PENALTY Polymarket is a prediction market that came out of stealth in June 2020. Calling it an “event-based binary options market” the CFTC brought suit against the company that runs Polymarket, which is based in New York City. It was settled with a $1.4M penalty and an agreement to cease its violations of various rules cited in the order. The order stipulated that Polymarket would certify that it had ceased offering such products by Jan. 24.

REGULATED The company first informed its users that it would block users in the United States on Jan. 12. In a message from Autumn Communications on behalf of Polymarket, the company announced that it was working on a regulated product for the U.S. market.

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The Tube

📺 The Defiant Weekly: DeFi 2.0 is dead, its spirit lives on in Fantom ve(3,3)

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Links

🔗 Fantom Becomes Third-Largest DeFi Protocol by Value Locked: CoinDesk

Fantom overtook Binance Smart Chain (BSC) over the weekend to become the third-largest decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem by total value locked, data from analytics tool DeFiLlama showed.

🔗 The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?: Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization.

🔗 JPMorgan Chase closes Uniswap founder's bank accounts: The Block

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams tweeted Sunday that JPMorgan Chase has closed his bank accounts without notice or explanation.

🔗 5 reasons to be excited for the bear market [LITE]: Bankless

Many of my friends got into crypto in 2021, and all of them just want prices to go up… I mean, of course, they do!

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Trending in The Defiant

• Uniswap Crosses Milestone With Greater ETH/Stablecoin Volume than Coinbase or Binance Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange by trade volume, now processes more ETH/stablecoin volume than any centralized crypto trading venue.

• OlympusDAO Created a Breakthrough DeFi Model – Now It’s Down 93% and Called a ‘Ponzi’ OlympusDAO held so much promise when it exploded on the DeFi scene in 2021. 

• LooksRare Surges to $7B Valuation as Torrid Volumes Fuel Staking Rewards LooksRare, the upstart NFT marketplace that airdropped its $LOOKS token to NFT traders on Jan. 9, is having a stellar run.

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