😬 FTX Crisis Shifts Into New Phase as Contagion Spreads and Investors Scramble for Cover

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FTX Crisis

• FTX Crisis Shifts Into New Phase as Contagion Spreads and Investors Scramble for Cover
• DeFi Supporters Say FTX’s Black Box Model Shows Peril of Centralization
• Trapped FTX Users May Find Lifeline in Justin Sun
• Solend Struggles to Liquidate Souring Loan as On-Chain Liquidity ‘Evaporates’
• Binance Walks Away From Deal To Acquire FTX

News

• OpenSea Will Enforce Royalties for Existing NFT Collections
• Feds Crank Up Heat on Tornado Cash With Link to North Korea’s Nuclear Program

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• Daily Defiant: FTX UPDATE: BINANCE ABANDONS ACQUISITION PLAN

DeFi Explainers

• What is 88mph?

Elsewhere

• Speechless: Arthur Hayes on Medium
• Binance chief says near collapse of FTX ‘severely’ eroded confidence in crypto industry: The Financial Times
• #Web3’s core values include decentralization. It is a desirable state in which power and control over a protocol, project, or network are distributed evenly among its participants: Polygon

Trending in The Defiant

• Focus Turns to Alameda as Investors Fear Binance Deal Not the Answer for Stricken FTX
• Solana Supporters Buck Up Network As FTX Contagion Takes Toll OpenSea Roils NFT Market With ‘Enforcement Tool’ For Creators

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FTX Crisis: Overview

😬 FTX Crisis Shifts Into New Phase as Contagion Spreads and Investors Scramble for Cover

Turmoil Reins With Bitcoin Plunging to Two-Year Low and Solana Cratering

By Samuel Haig

FEARS Twelve hours after Binance nixed hopes of a tidy bailout of FTX, turmoil rages in the crypto markets. Digital assets are hitting new lows, a potential savior has emerged in the form of Tron’s Justin Sun, and fears are mounting that more damage is to come as authorities circle the stricken exchange and its sister firm, Alameda Research.

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FTX Crisis: DeFi Impact

🕋 DeFi Supporters Say FTX’s Black Box Model Shows Peril of Centralization

Contagion Wipes Out $10B of DeFi’s Market Cap in 48 Hours

By Owen Fernau

VIBE Don’t blame DeFi. That’s the vibe running through the decentralized finance community as project teams and investors cope with the damage wrought by the meltdown of FTX, the centralized derivatives exchange.

CONTAGION Even though DeFi stalwarts had nothing to do with the practices that sank Sam Bankman-Fried’s high-profile company they have been impacted by the contagion from its demise.

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FTX Crisis: Solutions

🪤 Trapped FTX Users May Find Lifeline in Justin Sun

Tron Tokenholders Can Redeem Them with Huobi

By Samuel Haig

LIFELINE While many crypto traders wait with bated breath to learn the fate of their funds trapped on the failing FTX exchange, Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, may be preparing to throw a lifeline to FTX’s stranded customers.

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FTX Crisis: Solana

💦 Solend Struggles to Liquidate Souring Loan as On-Chain Liquidity ‘Evaporates’

SOL Has Crashed 55% In Rough Week for Crypto

By Aleksandar Gilbert

HAVOC The apparent collapse of crypto exchange FTX is wreaking havoc on the Solana ecosystem, with another centralized exchange reportedly halting stablecoin deposits to and from Solana and the blockchain’s largest protocol hanging on by its fingernails on Tuesday.

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FTX Crisis: Binance Deal

🚨 Binance Walks Away From Deal To Acquire FTX

Bitcoin Crashes to 2-Year Low Under $16,000

By:Aleksandar Gilbert

TAILSPIN Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it is walking away from its preliminary agreement to buy competitor FTX, an announcement that sent cryptocurrencies into a late afternoon tailspin Wednesday.

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NFT Marektplaces

🌊 OpenSea Will Enforce Royalties for Existing NFT Collections

Creator Fees Will Be Optional for New Collections Unless They Ban Fee-Free Marketplaces

By Owen Fernau

FEES OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace by volume, will continue to enforce creator fees on its platform for existing collections. This means that, unlike many exchanges which have made royalties optional, the creators of NFT collections already trading on OpenSea will be able to continue to collect royalties on trades.

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Tornado Sanctions

🏛 Feds Crank Up Heat on Tornado Cash With Link to North Korea’s Nuclear Program

OFAC Says Sanctions are Part of Effort to Limit Development of Ballistic Missiles

By Tarang Khaitan

MIXER The Biden Administration has raised the stakes in the Tornado Cash sanctions case by alleging the crypto mixer was involved in facilitating transactions connected to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

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The Tube

📺 Daily Defiant: FTX UPDATE: BINANCE ABANDONS ACQUISITION PLAN

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DeFi Explainers

🛣 What is 88mph?

A Step-by-Step Guide to the DeFi Lending App

By Rahul Nambiampurath

FIXED RATE 88mph is an Ethereum-based, decentralized application (dApp) for users who want to borrow and lend at a fixed interest rate. But instead of being a self-contained protocol, 88mph is actually a mediator for more popular third-party lending dApps, such as Aave or Compound. It’s designed for advanced DeFi investors who understand the perils of financial complexity.

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Elsewhere

🔗 Speechless: Arthur Hayes on Medium

I asked a question on Twitter a few days ago wondering who would be the Lehman Brothers of this crypto credit cycle.

🔗 Binance chief says near collapse of FTX ‘severely’ eroded confidence in crypto industry: The Financial Times

The near collapse of FTX has “severely shaken” confidence in the crypto industry and will trigger tougher scrutiny by regulators, Binance chief Changpeng Zhao said a day after orchestrating a rescue of the exchange’s rival.

#Web3's core values include decentralization.



It is a desirable state in which power and control over a protocol, project, or network are distributed evenly among its participants.



One important vector in decentralizing a network is its Validators.



— Polygon – MATIC 💜 (@0xPolygon) November 9, 2022

Trending in The Defiant

• Focus Turns to Alameda as Investors Fear Binance Deal Not the Answer for Stricken FTXAs cryptocurrency investors and users reckon with the fallout from Binance’s shocking takeover of FTX, one thing is clear: the episode is a disaster for the burgeoning industry.
• Solana Supporters Buck Up Network As FTX Contagion Takes TollIt’s safe to say that last week few Solana fans were worried about contagion from a centralized derivatives exchange that focused on putting its name on sports arenas and not DeFi.
• OpenSea Roils NFT Market With ‘Enforcement Tool’ For CreatorsNFT creators are finally getting a little financial help. At least that’s the pitch from OpenSea. On Tuesday, OpenSea, the No. 1 NFT marketplace, plans to release an “on-chain enforcement tool” that will let artists stop their work from being sold on sites that do not distribute royalty fees.

🧑‍💻 ✍️ Stories in The Defiant are written by Owen Fernau, Aleksandar Gilbert, Samuel Haig, and yyctrader, and edited by Edward Robinson, yyctrader and Camila Russo. Videos were produced by Alp Gasimov. Podcast was led by Camila, edited by Alp.

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