📊 DeFi is Deleveraging After Liquidations

Hello Defiers, here’s what we’re covering today,

• DeFi is Deleveraging After Liquidations
• EasyFi Loses Over $60M in Admin Key Hack
• Synthetix to Add Tokens Linked to FAANG Stocks
• Injective Protocol Raises $10M at $1B Valuation

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On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock

📊 DeFi is Deleveraging After Liquidations

TLDR Decentralized lending markets experienced tumultuous action during the weekend. On-chain activity points to markets deleveraging and investor repositioning from lenders to yield aggregators amid the crash.

LIQUIDATIONS Compound experienced $5.6 million worth of liquidations on April 18. Even though this is meager in comparison to the liquidations in derivatives, it is one of the five highest liquidating days in the Compound protocol.

LOANS ORIGINATED DECLINE Net loans originated in Compound dropped sharply on Sunday. The number of loans repaid was $767 million greater than the loans taken out on April 18, a much higher amount than the $5 million of forced repayments through liquidations.

On April 19, net loans originated were still over $600 million, despite under $50,000 being liquidated. This trend points to investors closing out loans and deleveraging in light of the recent correction.

As of April 20, 2021 using IntoTheBlock’s Compound Protocol insights

FROM LENDER TO YIELD AGGREGATORS Investors are reallocating their positions. This pattern can be observed in TVL shifting from lending platforms into yield aggregators. One hypothesis to explain this trend is that traders in crypto are moving out of leveraged investing into passive earning. Potentially, this could suggest less of a risk-on stance as investors forego leveraged speculation for autopilot returns. It is also worth noting the high liquidity mining rewards provided by yield aggregators in BSC is likely incentivizing the TVL increase in PancakeBunny and Autofarm.

As of April 20, 2021 via DeFi Llama

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🏴‍☠️ EasyFi Loses Over $60M in Admin Key Hack

TLDR EasyFi, a Compound Finance fork launched directly on the Polygon Layer 2 Network, suffered a major hack on Monday, losing over $60M of the project’s EASY tokens and also $6M of users’ provided liquidity.

CONTEXT The hacker gained access to the project’s admin key, which allows developers to make changes to their protocol. The attack is the latest in a series of exploits to DeFi protocols and highlights yet another potential security flaw users should take into account when depositing their funds.

ADMIN KEY ACCESS In a “pre-post mortem” EasyFi co-founder Ankitt Gaur said the hacker gained access to the computer which held the admin key remotely and transferred 2.89M of EASY tokens to their Ethereum wallet where they have been swapping the tokens primarily for the USDC stablecoin.

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🧛 Synthetix to Add Tokens Linked to FAANG Stocks

TLDR Synthetix, the synthetic derivatives protocol, will launch its Alnilam update tomorrow which includes three Synthetix Improvement Proposals (SIPs) and adds support for eight new assets, including tokens tracking prices for FAANG stocks –– Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google

FAANG SYNTHS SIP-114 adds sFB, sAMZN, sAAPL, sNFLX, and sGOOG synthetic assets to Synthetix. The derivatives’ addition will give DeFi participants another avenue to gain exposure to big-name US equities regardless of where in the world they are based. Terra’s Mirror also issues crypto assets tied to traditional equities, and so does FTX, though on a centralized platform.

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💰 Injective Protocol Raises $10M at $1B Valuation

TLDR Injective Protocol, a decentralized derivatives exchange, said it raised a $10M at a $1B valuation from investors including Pantera Capital, BlockTower, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures (formerly BitMex Ventures), among others. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also participated, while Cumberland, DRW’s crypto arm, disclosed its investment in the company.

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🔗 Ethereum settled $1.5 trillion in transactions in Q1 2021: @RyanWatkins

Ryan Watkins @RyanWatkins_Ethereum settled $1.5 trillion in transactions in Q1 2021. That’s more than it’s previous 7 quarters combined.

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🧑‍💻 ✍️ Stories in this newsletter were written by Owen Fernau and Dan Kahan, and edited by Camila Russo. Videos were produced by Robin Schmidt and Alp Gasimov. Podcast was led by Camila, edited by Alp.

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