Lending

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Sonne Finance Token Drops 60% After $20M Exploit on Optimism
Attackers stole ether, velo and stablecoins before developers mitigated the hack and paused operations. Sonne’s markets on the Base blockchain were not affected.
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DeFi Lender Liquity Unveils New Stablecoin With User-Set Borrowing Rates in White Paper
Liquity V2 will allow borrowers to set their borrowing costs, a novel approach in DeFi, and plans to pay the lion's share of protocol revenues back to liquidity providers.
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Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)
Ledn First-Quarter Loans Top Record $690M as Lending Market Snaps Back
The majority of loans were issued to institutional market makers following U.S. approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds.
Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

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Chaos at MarginFi Shakes up Solana DeFi's Borrow-and-Lend Landscape
Solend and Kamino were the biggest winners in the Solana DeFi landscape.
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MarginFi Leader Resigns on Fiery Day for Major Solana Lender
"The main problem was our lack of organizational execution," MarginFi's longtime leader Edgar Pavlovsky told CoinDesk.
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Credbull CEO Jason Dehni (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Credbull's First Crypto Fund Chases High Fixed Yields
Crypto's high yield structured product sector is getting a bit more mature.
Credbull CEO Jason Dehni (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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TrueFi Unveils Lending Protocol for Tokenized Real-World Assets; TRU Jumps 14%
Investors will be able to take out crypto loans by pledging TrueFi's U.S. Treasury bill tokens, with plans to expand collateral to other types of tokenized RWAs, according to...
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Seeking Yield on $37M Ether Treasury, JPEG'd DAO Mulls Airdrop Farming
"There are possibilities to solidify the treasury at low risk," pseudonymous JPEG'd contributor 0xTutti told CoinDesk.
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Stablecoins Can Help Fix the Current Lending Market
The Global Financial Crisis reduced the depth of capital markets. Blockchain-based stablecoins can help fill the gap, say Christine Cai and Sefton Kincaid, of Cicada Partners.
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Seamless Protocol Issues SEAM, Bags First Base-Blockchain Token Listing on Coinbase
Seamless previously operated the "OG Points" program, allowing thousands of users to earn points in their on-chain wallets.
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