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DOGE/US+0.86%The Venus protocol faced a massive liquidation of more than $200 million on Wednesday due to alleged price manipulation of its native token XVS.
For those who don't know much about the Venus protocol, let's give a simple explanation first. The Venus protocol provides decentralized financial lending services on the Binance Smart Chain, allowing users to borrow funds using XVS tokens as collateral. As required by the Venus protocol, the value of borrowed funds must always be lower than the value of the collateral provided.
The main reason for the large-scale liquidation this time is because of the price surge and subsequent crash. The price of XVS tokens rose by nearly 90% at midnight on Wednesday, Eastern Time, from $76 to $144, which means that Users only need to pay few tokens to stake, and then can borrow more funds and other tokens, such as bitcoin and ether, on the Venus protocol.
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But soon, prices in the cryptocurrency market plummeted, resulting in many people taking out loans with insufficient collateral value. However, many people who borrowed on the Venus protocol did not pay back their loans in time, choosing to keep their newly acquired tokens and default on their loans. The protocol then works as expected to liquidate the remaining collateral.
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According to a report in East Africa, the six members of the East African Community hope that the envisaged common currency will help reduce the cost of exchanging currencies. It is also hoped that a single currency will eliminate exchange rate fluctuations from cross-border trade. Achieving a single currency is one of the EAC's priorities for the period 2022-2026.
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But the problem is, because the entire cryptocurrency market has been in a downturn, the value of many collaterals has also plummeted, so that even after the sale of the Venus agreement, the value of the collateral is still far below the original loan value-as a result, Venus generated More than $95 million in bad debts, including:
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* 2,000 bitcoins (worth nearly $79 million at current prices)
* 5,700 Ethereum (worth nearly $17 million at current prices)
Bad debt, which means that the Venus protocol cannot obtain accounts receivable from users.
Joselito Lizarondo is the founder of the Venus protocol and the founder of Swipe, a crypto wallet and debit card provider owned by Binance. According to him, there are two main reasons for the soaring price of XVS:
1. A large number of market orders appear in a short period of time
2. Limited token supply (because many users staked XVS tokens)
Most of the XVS token transactions occur on the Binance Exchange. The Block Research analyst Igor Igamberdiev said that cryptocurrency exchanges are usually known for their high liquidity, but for XVS, the liquidity of this cryptocurrency is not. The price is not high, so its price can be easily manipulated. At the same time, the Venus protocol still approved more loans when the price of XVS tokens skyrocketed.
However, Joselito Lizarondo, the founder of the Venus protocol, claimed that the protocol is functioning as expected and that "no funds have been lost." At the same time, he also admitted that there is a problem of bad debts, and pointed out that the Venus protocol will use its grant program and "use XVS tokens" to make up for it. the gap.
In fact, in the cryptocurrency market, it is not uncommon for the Venus protocol to generate a large number of liquidations and generate bad debts:
In November 2020, the price of the stablecoin DAI skyrocketed, resulting in a liquidation fund of up to $88 million in the DeFi protocol Compound.
On "Black Thursday", March 12, 2020, the cryptocurrency market plummeted, and the structure caused the liquidation value of the DeFi protocol MakerDAO to exceed 8 million US dollars.
Judging from the current statistical data, the scale of liquidation funds triggered by the Venus agreement this time may be the highest in the history of DeFi so far.
From | The Block, compiled | PANews
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