Contagion only hit firms with ‘poor balance sheet management’ — Kraken Aus boss
The crypto contagion only hurt entities that poorly managed their treasuries, but didn't affect the underlying blockchain technology, he said. The crypto contagion sparked by Terra’s infamous implosion this year only spread to companies and protocols with “poor balance sheet management” and not the underlying blockchain technology, says Kraken Australia’s managing director Jonathon Miller. Speaking with Cointelegraph, the Australian crypto exchange head argued that sectors such as Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) revealed its fundamental strength this year by weathering severe....
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