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May 11, 2023

📈Tether Reports Record Surplus

The Defiant

DeFi Alpha

GM Defiers!

We have a drama-heavy newsletter for you today. Longstanding DAO tooling project Aragon has decided to repurpose its treasury into a grants program after tokenholders voted to take control. Meanwhile, the CEO of a prominent NFT lending protocol is accused of pilfering over $1.5M. Finally, Tether has released its Q1 attestation report, which includes over $2B in excess reserves.

✍️ In today’s newsletter:

  • USDT issuer reports great first quarter
  • Aragon clashes with tokenholders over control of $177M treasury
  • ParaSpace CEO accused of embezzlement, leaving protocol with unrecoverable bad debt

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