Aave Is Down 18% And Carrying $196M In Bad Debt, But Smart Money Is Buying An...
Aave is having one of the worst weeks in its history. On April 18, attackers exploited a vulnerability in KelpDAO’s rsETH bridge and deposited the stolen tokens as collateral on Aave V3, borrowing roughly $196 million in wrapped ether against assets the protocol had no reason to reject at the time. The bad debt was not caused by a flaw in Aave’s own code — but that distinction has done little to calm the market’s reaction. Related Reading: XRP Is Moving Higher While Its Order Flow Stays Negative: A Gap Worth Watching Over the 48 hours that followed, Aave lost $8.45....
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Aave has shed more than 23% of its value since Friday, and the protocol that bills itself as DeFi’s most trusted lender is now managing the fallout from one of the most disruptive exploits in its history — even though its own code was never touched. Related Reading: XRP Just Settled $291 Million On-Chain, Almost Nothing Hit Binance: Find Out What’s Happening The attack unfolded through a bridge vulnerability rather than a flaw in Aave itself. Attackers exploited Kelp’s bridge to obtain $292 million in stolen rsETH, then used it as collateral on Aave V3. Because Aave had....
Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance, has settled his loan on the Aave Protocol and cut his total debt to $42.7 million. Egorov’s DeFi debt profile was revealed on August 1 following a Curve Finance hack that extracted $73.5 million worth of assets across various liquidity pools. As expected, the exploit caused a significant decline in the price of CRV, with the Curve governance token losing over 24% of its value in a single day, based on data from CoinMarketCap. This fall in CRV’s market price brought much attention to Egorov’s multiple debt positions. According to a report by....
A $292 million hack tied to restaking protocol Kelp DAO has rippled through decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and market confidence far beyond the original incident, with Aave emerging as one of the hardest-hit examples. Over the weekend, Aave’s native token (AAVE) fell by about 26%, while the protocol also saw a sharp decline in total value locked (TVL) and continued outflows that intensified the downturn. Kelp DAO Hack Sparks Aave Crisis The chain of events began with the attacker draining roughly 116,500 rsETH—valued at about $292 million—from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero bridge. The stolen....
Presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that the US is incapable of defaulting on its debt because of the Federal Reserve’s ability to “print money.” The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee attempted to clarify previous statements that he could persuade America’s creditors to accept less than full payment for the national debt, which was construed by some publications to mean he intended to default. Trump insisted that he meant that the US could simply buy back debt at a discounted rate. “You know, I’m the king of debt. I understand debt probably better than anybody. I....
A trader on Aave, a decentralized liquidity protocol operating on multiple platforms, including Ethereum and OP Mainnet, has begun selling wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) to repay outstanding debt, records on October 13 reveal. WBTC is a tokenized version of Bitcoin issued on Ethereum that allows holders to engage in decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. Trader Selling WBTC To Repay Debt On Aave v2 According to Lookonchain data, the unidentified trader marked with address “0x47ab” borrowed roughly $8 million worth of multiple stablecoins, including USDC, USDT, and DAI, Maker’s stablecoin,....