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Blend Drives Surge In NFT Lending Activity

Bad Debt Piles up at DeFi Lending Protocols

DeFi Stalwarts Explore Tie-Ups to Weather Bear Market and FTX Fallout

Coinbase Offers Free Trades from USDT to USDC

SBF Spars with CZ And Denies ‘Hunting’ Three Arrows

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Venus Protocol and Iron Bank Incur Eight-Digit Liabilities as MakerDAO Keeps a Clean Sheet

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 from RiskDAO. This includes top money markets Aave, Venus, and Abracadabra.

Aave, MakerDAO, Compound and Yearn Seek Partnerships as DeFi Shifts into Next Phase

When disaster strikes, kindred spirits join together. That appears to be what’s happening in DeFi as the sector’s oldest and most influential protocols lock arms in the wake of the FTX collapse.

On Dec. 4, the members of MakerDAO, DeFi’s No. 1 protocol with $6.4B in 

 a proposal to supply up to $5M of its 

 stablecoin to Compound, a major DeFi money market. That amount may increase up to $160M, according to a 

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Exchange Takes Aim At Tether With Emphasis On ‘Stability and Trust’

One of crypto’s largest centralized exchanges is shaking up the battle for stablecoin supremacy. Coinbase, the second largest exchange by volume, which processed over $1B of trades on Dec. 8, is encouraging its users to swap from USDT to USDC with fee-less trades.

Disgraced FTX CEO Commits to Testifying Before Congress

In a flurry of tweets early Friday, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sparred with archrival Changpeng Zhao of Binance, denied allegations he had orchestrated the downfall of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital in June, and committed to testifying before a Congressional Committee next week.

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A Primer for One of the Most Popular Practices in DeFi

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