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Celsius Pays Off MakerDAO Debt, Moves $500M of Bitcoin to FTX

Celsius has repaid its DAI loan on MakerDAO and withdrawn its WBTC collateral.

Industry Insiders Weigh In On dYdX’s Planned AppChain

With V4 planned on Cosmos, experts around the industry are mulling over what dYdX’s move means for the broader crypto industry.

Markets

Voyager Delivers Painful Lesson on Perils of Counterparty Risk in Bankruptcy Drama

Exposure to Three Arrows Sinks Crypto Exchange as Dominoes Fall

DeFi

MakerDAO Members Vote on Issuing $30M Loan To Societe Generale

MakerDAO Embrace of Real World Assets Poised for Big Step

DeFi

Celsius Pays Down 183M DAI in Debt to Stave Off Liquidation

CeFi Bank Scrambling to Reduce Exposure After Suspending Withdrawals

CeFi

Voyager files for bankruptcy but Otherside load test is a smash

A quick bit of news to fire you on your way today. And it’s a tale of two bear markets. On the one hand we have Voyager Digital who have just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just the latest sorry chapter in this deeply sorry saga. As we reported on Monday, in their July 1st…

Podcast

Here's Why DAOs Fail; Former SushiSwap CTO Reflects on Decentralized Orgs

Joseph Delong is the founder of Astaria, a recently created NFT lending protocol and the former CTO of SushiSwap

DeFi

Ethereum Closes In On Proof-of-Stake After Sepolia Testnet Merge

Sepolia is the second of three testnets to merge their proof-of-work (PoW) execution layers with their PoS consensus layers before the upgrade can take effect on Ethereum’s mainnet.