DeFi (Week 28, 11/07/2022 – 17/07/2022)
Gnosis Safe rebrands as “Safe” after US$100M funding round. Celsius bankruptcy filing shows $4.7B owed to customers. ZKX raises $4.5M seed funding with the help of Crypto.com
Key Takeaways
- Multi-sig wallet protocol Gnosis Safe rebranded as “Safe” after raising US$100M in a funding round. The funds will go towards the “Safe Ecosystem Foundation”, a non-profit which will contribute to further development.
- Woes for troubled crypto lender Celsius continue as it reports a US$1.2B balance sheet hole and a whopping US$4.7B owed to customers.
- Permissionless derivatives trading protocol ZKX raised US$4.5M in seed funding with the help of Crypto.com Capital, among others. They are creating new frameworks to solve current challenges in the DeFi market.
- This week’s price, volume, and volatility indices were positive at +10.93%, +20.34%, and +29.09%, respectively.
Highlights
- 100-Year-Old Pennsylvania-based bank approved to leverage MakerDAO’s stablecoin vault
- Cred Protocol unveils its first decentralized credit scores
- Celsius hires new law firm to oversee restructuring
- DAO platform startup drums up 46 investors in pre-seed round
- Voyager can’t guarantee all customers will receive their crypto under proposed recovery plan
- Uniswap user loses US$8M worth of ETH in phishing attack
- DeFi exploits top US$1.8B YTD, though security ‘getting better’ Immunefi says
- Illicit crypto moving to mixers on pace to double in 2022
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Top Token Metrics
*Top DeFi tokens based on CoinGecko
Source: CoinGecko
DeFi Index Tokens
* DeFI index tokens: AAVE, BAL, CAKE, COMP, CRV, CVX, FXS, JOE, LDO, LINK, MKR, OSMO, REN, SNX, SPELL, SUSHI, UNI, VVS, YFI
Dex Metrics
* % change is based on the difference between two consecutive weekly periods
** Omitted due to incomplete source data
Sources: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama, BitDegree
Lending Protocol Metrics
TVL does not include borrowed assets value
* % change is based on the difference between two consecutive weekly periods
** Omitted due to incomplete source data
*** LDR = Total Borrowed / TVL
Sources: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama
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