🌪 Solana Endures ‘Crucible’ as FTX Connection Deletes 70% of TVL

News

• Solana Endures ‘Crucible’ as FTX Connection Deletes 70% of TVL
• Audit Shows Terra Groups Spent $3.4B to Defend Dollar Peg in UST

FTX Crisis

• FTX Leadership Borrowed Over $1B From Alameda
• DeFi Users Jump But Boom is a Mirage: Chainalysis
• SBF Rues FTX Bankruptcy Filing As Screws Tighten: Report

Podcast

• Podcast: JPMorgan’s First DeFi Trade: Behind The Scenes

Defiant Video

• Does SBF Have A Get Out Of Jail Free Card?

Trending in The Defiant

• MakerDAO Releases Speedy DAI Transfers and Tightens Controls on Vaults
• Businesses Can Now Accept USDC With Apple Pay
• Crypto Users Jump to DeFi Platforms in Wake of FTX’s CeFi Crash

Elsewhere

• Genesis Sought $1B Bailout From Investors Before Halting Withdrawals: Report: Decrypt
• Binance to Relaunch Bid for Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager: Source: CoinDesk
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FTX Crisis: Solana

🌪 Solana Endures ‘Crucible’ as FTX Connection Deletes 70% of TVL

Fall of SBF’s Empire Rocks Layer 1 As It Was Rebounding From Tough Year

By Tarang Khaitan

HIT HARDER There was a time when Solana’s relationship with Sam Bankman-Fried was a good thing. Not anymore. Perhaps no DeFi player has been hit harder by the FTX disaster than Solana, the Layer 1 blockchain that, until recently, had attracted users and buzz with its high-speed, low cost performance.

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FTX Crisis: Alameda

💰 FTX Leadership Borrowed Over $1B From Alameda

Incoming CEO John Ray Cites ‘Complete Absence of Trustworthy Financial Information’

By Aleksandar Gilbert

LOANS Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and other executives at the now-bankrupt crypto exchange were loaned more than $1B by sister company Alameda Research, according to a court document released Thursday. Another $2.3B was loaned to Paper Bird Inc. Alameda, Paper Bird and FTX are largely or wholly owned by Bankman-Fried and are among the 100-plus companies in his empire to have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware last week.

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FTX Crisis: DeFi Impact

🏝 DeFi Users Jump But Boom is a Mirage: Chainalysis

Data Shows Activity Spike Came from Existing Users and MEV Bot

By Aleksandar Gilbert

VOLUMES Ever since FTX halted withdrawals and filed for bankruptcy last week, several DeFi protocols have enjoyed surging transaction volumes and fee revenue. However, FTX’s collapse has not spurred a rush to self-custody, according to research from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.

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FTX Crisis: SBF

🔩 SBF Rues FTX Bankruptcy Filing As Screws Tighten: Report

Says Altruist Persona Was ‘Just PR’ in Wide-ranging Interview with Vox

By Aleksandar Gilbert

OVERTURES Disgraced FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) said his overtures to regulators and his cultivated image as a do-gooder were “just PR” in an interview with Vox published Wednesday.

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Crypto Audits

📝 Audit Shows Terra Groups Spent $3.4B to Defend Dollar Peg in UST

Terraform Labs Commissioned Study to Quantify Support for Stablecoin During May Crisis

By Owen Fernau

PEG In a bid to quell speculation about how Terra defended its stablecoin UST during its meltdown last May, two organizations connected with the failed blockchain ecosystem spent a whopping $3.4B in May to support its dollar peg, according to an audit released Wednesday.

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Defiant Video

📺 Does SBF Have A Get Out Of Jail Free Card?

Podcast Video

📺🎙 Podcast: JPMorgan’s First DeFi Trade: Behind The Scenes

Trending in The Defiant

• MakerDAO Releases Speedy DAI Transfers and Tightens Controls on Vaults MakerDAO, the No. 1 DeFi platform with more than $8B in total value locked, now allows users to transfer its DAI stablecoin between Ethereum’s mainnet and Layer 2 networks, the protocol announced on Wednesday.
• Businesses Can Now Accept USDC With Apple Pay Circle, the issuer of the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin, has unveiled an integration with Apple Pay, the payment service with over half a billion users around the globe. Merchants will be able to accept USDC as payment using this new feature.
• Crypto Users Jump to DeFi Platforms in Wake of FTX’s CeFi CrashDon’t look now, but the FTX collapse has spurred a wave of interest in decentralized finance platforms. DeFi protocols are experiencing double digit increases in the number of users over the past week, according to data from Nansen, the blockchain analytics platform.

Elsewhere

🔗 Genesis Sought $1B Bailout From Investors Before Halting Withdrawals: Report: Decrypt

Crypto lender Genesis tried to raise a $1 billion loan from investors to avoid a “liquidity crunch” driven by the fallout from crypto exchange FTX’s collapse, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

🔗 Binance to Relaunch Bid for Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager: Source: CoinDesk

Binance.US, the American arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is preparing to bid for bankrupt lending platform Voyager Digital, according to a person familiar with the plans.

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