Crypto Exchange Trader Joe Booms on Arbitrum, Spurring JOE Token Rally

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The Algorand Foundation, along with several other major creditors, has indicated a preference for liquidation over restructuring for troubled Singaporean crypto lender Hodlnaut. According to a court filing, the creditors have claims worth $228 million Singaporean dollars (US$170 million). The Algorand Foundation declared $35 million in exposure to Hodlnaut in September. The decision to oppose restructuring comes as Hodlnaut's judicial managers have stated that there is no 'white knight investor' for the lender, leading to an absence of fresh capital. Creditors initially indicated a preference for liquidation in January, with the Algorand Foundation stating that liquidation would 'maximize the company's remaining assets available for distribution.' The Algorand token (ALGO) is currently trading at 18 cents, having dropped by 3.34% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk data.Coco, a new crypto casino inspired by the Milady NFT project, has made a cracking debut on the Ethereum blockchain. According to etherscan data, the platform's native token (COCO) has surged to 8 cents, giving it a market capitalization of $8.8 million. The casino has already hit $36 million in transaction volume in the first 12 hours after its release. nnThe platform features a slot machine focused on popular memecoins pepe (PEPE) and dogecoin (DOGE), as well as three traditional casino table games in blackjack, baccarat, and casino hold'em. Coco brands itself as 'provably fair,' using the SHA256 algorithm to ensure that each game is tamper-proof. nnThe success of Coco has also had an impact on other crypto casinos, with Rollbit's native token (RLB) rising to 7 cents from 2 cents. The stable market this month has led to increased traction for crypto casinos like Rollbit and Coco. nnHowever, VanEck CEO Gabor Gurbacs does not think that Bitcoin ETFs will be approved by the SEC in May. He believes that the 'dominant narrative' driving Bitcoin's 2024 rally is not the ETFs, but rather the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies and the growth of decentralized finance. nnMeanwhile, the supply of inactive Bitcoin for a year has dropped to an 18-month low, according to Glassnode. This could be a sign that the current Bitcoin rally may continue after the halving. nnIn other news, Eisenberg's $110 million fraud trial has opened, and the Foundation for the Study of Innovative Technologies (FSI) has called for consistency in stablecoin regulation. nnAs the wider crypto market continues to stagnate with a lack of volatility, crypto traders are frequently turning their attention to on-chain betting platforms like last week's phenomenon; hamster racing. The success of Coco and Rollbit suggests that crypto casinos may be the next big thing in the cryptocurrency space.Traders who have bet on a USDC revival are in healthy profit, but downside risk remains if the stablecoin depegs again. According to DeFiLlama, there are $70.8 million in positions that can be liquidated between $1.00 and 90 cents. Two recently filled positions on Compound are worth $20.7 million and $15.4 million, respectively. If USDC hits 99 cents, the first position will be liquidated, and if it hits 93 cents, the second position will be liquidated. The immediate panic appears to be over with USDC regaining its peg on Monday, but the risk of liquidation remains. Traders using DeFi protocols to bet on a USDC revival over the weekend are at risk of eight-figure liquidations if the stablecoin loses its $1 peg again this week.Liquidity across bitcoin trading pairs has slumped and failed to recover since the collapse of FTX in November. The apparent exit or reduction in trading by Jane Street and Jump Crypto, two influential cryptocurrency market makers, has the potential to disrupt the fragile flow of liquidity across the industry. Jane Street and Jump are paring back crypto trading in the U.S., amid the regulatory clampdown that spawned out of FTX's collapse. Jump's crypto division will continue to expand globally while Jane Street will scale back on its growth plans. The news is not necessarily surprising given recent developments, but what's concerning is that liquidity has still not recovered from Alameda's collapse, and a slowdown with two of the biggest surviving market makers could weigh on liquidity even further. Market depth, a metric used to measure liquidity on exchanges, slumped by more than 50% following the collapse of FTX and has failed to recover despite a rise in crypto prices. Crypto-native market makers, unlike traditional firms such as Jane Street and Jump, aren't put off by the duo's exodus as the issue is constrained to the U.S. market. An absence of liquidity causes an increase in volatility, which has the potential to create a credit risk that could spread to all sectors of finance.Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium is proposing the creation of a bug bounty program worth 10 million RAY tokens (about $2.3 million) to squash bugs affecting the protocol's core smart contracts. The program would target Raydium's Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker smart contracts and would be managed through bug bounty platform Immunefi. The proposal is part of a broader effort to boost community participation in protocol governance. Raydium's liquidity pools held over $37 million in total value locked, with its native token RAY worth 23 cents Thursday, according to CoinGecko. The proposal is part of a wider effort to boost community engagement on Solana, which is not as strong as on other blockchain platforms. The program would reward white hat hackers as much as $505,000 or as little as $5,000 in RAY tokens depending on the severity of the detected bug.

Aventus (AVT), the native token of a blockchain service provider of the same name, has shed 4.2% to $1.22 Wednesday morning, with volatility spiking on minimal liquidity following a decision to pause a planned token split. The move was met with disappointment among the community after a December governance vote voted in favor of the split. Although AVT trades on Coinbase, daily volume remains low at just $65,000, and market depth – a metric that assesses how much capital it would take to move an asset by a certain percentage – is minimal at around $3,000 per 2%. The AVT token was issued in 2017 and hit a record high of $6.905 at the start of 2018. It currently has a market cap of $7.3 million, according to CoinMarketCap.Maple Finance, a blockchain-based crypto lending protocol, is preparing to launch a new lending pool that invests in U.S. Treasury bonds. The pool will allow accredited investors and corporate treasuries based outside of the U.S. to invest their stablecoin holdings in U.S. Treasury bonds and earn a yield. The protocol expects demand for the pool due to crypto investors looking for yields in traditional assets such as government bonds, while trust in banking facilities has decreased after recent bank implosions in the U.S. Maple is also working on additions to its lending offerings, including a new feature called Maple Prime, which will let borrowers actively manage their collateral positions. The protocol plans to expand into open-term lending, which will let borrowers open credit lines to borrow without a maturity date. The developments come as the platform is recovering from a disastrous year for crypto lending that was plagued with insolvencies of borrowers. The MPL token rallied 23% ahead of the community call. The total value locked (TVL) on the protocol dropped to $40 million from $930 million last May, per data by DefiLlama. The MPL token plummeted to as low as $4 from an all-time high of $68.2 last April.Hector Network, a Fantom-based protocol and OlympusDAO fork, is considering a legal wrapper to shield its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) from regulatory scrutiny. The proposal, known as Hector Improvement Proposal 40 (HIP 40), would establish a new legal structure for the DAO, rooted in the Cayman Islands, to administer treasury and voting, and own DAO assets. However, this move has sparked criticism from the community, as it would allegedly undercut their powers and give broad powers to employees of Hector Network. The future of Hector Network is in flux, as leaders hold a vote on the plan, which ends on May 20. Other DAOs, such as SushiSwap, have also endeavored to change their legal formation in response to growing regulatory scrutiny of decentralized crypto projects. The proposal has ignited a heated debate within the Hector Network community, with some arguing that it would dilute their powers over the entity and give too much control to employees. The setup would ensure Hector’s own employees would have final say over all proposals considered by the DAO. The only non-employee, the pseudonymous Sonoro, is currently the chief of a group of “oracles,” community members who currently have the power to write HIPs but under the new setup have the right to review and comment on proposals. Lazer, a pseudonymous member of Hector’s oracle committee, said HIP 40 would give Hector “team complete power over the composition of their so-called ‘oracle group’ and therefore unilateral power to propose HIPs and further distance the community from governance.” Zeus, the pseudonymous operational lead of Hector, did not immediately comment on the setup of the steering committee. In a private message on Discord, he said “nothing will change to the token holders’ governance btw, it's just more legal protection in corporations, taxes, and possible regulatories.” Zeus said a community AMA will occur in the coming days. The proposal has sparked a heated debate within the Hector Network community, with some arguing that it would dilute their powers over the entity and give too much control to employees. The future of Hector Network is uncertain, as leaders hold a vote on the plan, which ends on May 20. Other DAOs, such as SushiSwap, have also endeavored to change their legal formation in response to growing regulatory scrutiny of decentralized crypto projects.ZkSync-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Merlin plans to compensate users impacted in a nearly $2 million rug pull with blockchain audit firm CertiK. A representative for CertiK told CoinDesk that the company is actively investigating the recent Merlin DEX exit scam, where rogue developers are suspected of causing the loss of around $2 million in user funds. Working closely with the remaining Merlin team, CertiK will initiate a compensation plan to cover the lost funds for affected users. Initial investigations indicate that the rogue developers are based in Europe, and CertiK will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to track them down if direct negotiation is unsuccessful. The rogue developer is urged to return 80% of the stolen funds and accept a 20% white-hat bounty. Merlin was seemingly exploited for over $1.8 million on Wednesday morning during a public sale of its mage (MAGE) tokens. The attack occurred despite Merlin touting an audit conducted by blockchain security firm CertiK. Further analysis by firms and analysts alleged the attack was conducted by a rogue developer who held private keys to Merlin's smart contracts - allowing them to withdraw all liquidity from the protocol.The recent rise of the meme coin bald (BALD) has raised questions about the involvement of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of Alameda Research. On-chain data suggests that the deployer contract of BALD has interacted with wallets linked to Alameda, and crypto sleuths have found connections between Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research and the deployer wallet. However, it is unlikely that Bankman-Fried is behind the scam, as he is currently under strict bail conditions and has limited access to the internet. The article also explores the connections between BALD and other DeFi projects, and the sudden removal of liquidity from the token's trading pairs. The rise of BALD and its subsequent fall has left many holders in the lurch, and the future of the token remains uncertain.

Nansen, a blockchain data analytics firm, has launched Nansen Query, a platform that allows clients to programmatically access unique, curated datasets pulled from Nansen’s databases. The new product aims to help firms perform blockchain analyses more efficiently by demystifying on-chain transaction history and pricing data. It promises to offer users a complete overview of markets to value “up to 60 times faster than competitors.”nnThe product provides coverage for 95% of all on-chain total value locked, or TVL, asset data and 98% of stablecoin deposit data across 17 blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Optimism, Ronin and Solana. Nansen Query differs from Nansen’s base-level offering by pairing data with the company’s proprietary and trading indicators like the “wash trading filter,” which helps identify suspicious on-chain activity by scanning trades between several linked wallets and transactions bounced between various trading counterparties. Nansen’s labeling system achieves that goal by facilitating firms’ analyses of on-chain data, which, while recorded on a public ledger system, can sometimes be difficult to access. nnA query is a request for data from a database or a request for action on that data that allows users to edit large information sets and identify trends among them. A programming language, like SQL, is used to create a query. Nansen’s data analytics tools, which were released in 2019, have gained traction among firms throughout the cryptocurrency industry, including prominent players like Coinbase (COIN), OpenSea, MakerDAO, Polygon, Avalanche and Andreessen Horowitz.A rise in open interest shows more participation from crypto traders and a bullish market sentiment, a trading firm said.Open interest in bitcoin (BTC) across crypto derivatives exchanges has surged to $10 billion, a five-month high after leverage subsided in the wake of FTX's collapse in November, according to data from Coinalyze.A rise in open interest, which is a metric that assesses the value of all unsettled derivatives positions, alongside an increase in price is often used to confirm the legitimacy of a move. At the time of writing, bitcoin was trading at around $30,000 after it surged to a 10-month high of $30,540 on Tuesday.Zahreddine Touag, head of trading at Woorton, a crypto trading firm and liquidity provider, said that bitcoin broke out in a 'global risk-on environment,' with the Nasdaq also rising by 10% in the last 30 days.'We think this move is driven by technicals, BTC broke a major resistance at $28.5k and rebounded on its 2023 bullish trendline,' Touag said.'We noticed futures open interest has been moving up vertically which shows more participation from crypto traders and a bullish market sentiment,' he added.'For now, we do not see signs of extreme exuberance; indeed, the fear and greed index is at 61, funding rates are still negative on many exchanges for BTC while short-sellers did not capitulate yet. We will monitor these metrics to predict a potential trend reversal.'It's worth noting that an increase in open interest means that whilst short-sellers have added to their shorts in this region, traders betting on long trades are doing so with leverage that may unwind if price begins to reverse.A total of $98 million in crypto derivatives positions have been liquidated in the past 24 hours as bitcoin momentarily slipped below $30,000, according to CoinGlass.UPDATE (April 10, 2023, 20:03 UTC): Updates quote attribution.Edited by Parikshit Mishra.Decentralized crypto exchange Trader Joe is set to launch an upgraded version of its Liquidity Book, which will make it more efficient for depositors to add tokens to its liquidity pools. The upgrade, scheduled for release next week, will also introduce 'auto-pools' that will automatically manage depositors' active positions in high-yield liquidity pools to mitigate risk. Additionally, a new rewards program will be introduced to distribute tokens to participants in Trader Joe's concentrated liquidity. Trader Joe has $131.78 million in total value locked and has done over $520 million in trading volume since March 26, according to DefiLlama. The price of JOE was trading at 60 cents at press time. nnThe upgrade is intended to improve the on-chain trading experience and make it easier for depositors to contribute to Trader Joe's liquidity pools. The exchange currently has three implementations on Arbitrum, BNB Chain, and Avalanche, with the largest being on Avalanche. nnThe news comes as a report by Kaiko Data found that crypto liquidity is heavily concentrated on a handful of exchanges, with Uniswap and SushiSwap accounting for the majority of liquidity. However, Trader Joe's upgrade is aimed at improving the liquidity experience for depositors and mitigating risk through the use of auto-pools. nnThe Fed's next sharp pivot could come from a liquidity crunch, according to an economist, as the central bank's balance sheet shrinks and liquidity dries up. Bitcoin holds steady above $17,000, while Celsius is 'deeply insolvent,' according to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. nnOverall, Trader Joe's upgrade is a positive development for the decentralized exchange space and could attract more depositors and traders to the platform. The introduction of auto-pools and a new rewards program could also help to mitigate risk and improve the overall liquidity experience for users.Investors are flocking to meme coins like Pepecoin (PEPE) and other newly issued tokens in the hopes of replicating the success of the controversial cryptocurrency. However, the trend has the potential to disrupt the huge rallies bitcoin and ether have seen this year. Despite the shocking magnitude of PEPE's rise, finding the next big meme coin is next to impossible, with every winner surrounded by the ashes of many failures. On-chain data makes it easy to track whale activity, and several newly issued meme tokens have surpassed PEPE in trading volume over the past weekend. The meme coin trend has essentially created a black hole that sucks liquidity out of the market, potentially impediment for other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH).Nexus Mutual, one of the largest insurance platforms covering high-risk decentralized finance (DeFi) deposits, is waiting to get paid back by five clients who filed claims after the March Euler Finance hack. The clients represent about $2 million in crypto of the nearly $2.4 million in total claims Nexus Mutual paid. The situation underscores how parts of DeFi still rely on trust despite crypto proponents’ insistence that crafty code could supplant that most fundamental aspect of traditional financial systems. At press time, Euler’s redemptions portal had returned $133 million in value to 457 users, six of whom were also Nexus Mutual policyholders. Of those six, four have returned some $380,000 in various cryptocurrencies to the group. The two that haven’t can be seen on chain swapping their redeemed cash for other cryptos and sending them to other addresses. Losing one six-figure payout would likely not impact Nexus Mutual’s financials in a meaningful way, but the insurer is keen to avoid losing even a penny. Nexus Mutual’s team has been in contact with Euler and even got that team to add a notice to the claims portal that alerts policyholders to the money they owe. If that doesn’t work, then lawsuits might follow. Nexus Mutual DAO members have deep connections to legal professionals within the industry, and already four out of the nine claimants have returned funds. If Nexus Mutual DAO members feel it's necessary to engage legal counsel to pursue the remaining claims, they should do so.

Sandwich bots are front-running punters of newly issued tokens such as pepe (PEPE) and chad (CHAD) – meme coins with no intrinsic value that caught wind of Crypto Twitter degens almost overnight as the tokens zooted over 10,000%. A sandwich attack, traps a user's transaction between two transactions, which is then further manipulated to gain profits. This is done by front-running the victim's trade by buying the same asset, and then selling tokens to the victim in the same trade for a slightly higher price. Sandwich attackers aren’t typically a form of exploit but are looked upon in crypto circles as a type of predatory behavior, which skims value from users, leads to a spike in gas fees and doesn’t benefit either the network or the user. The victim might not notice it, but for sandwich bots the gains can run into millions of dollars as they target thousands of wallets and skim a few dollars each time. A wallet named “Jaredfromsubway.eth,” a likely nod to the popular sandwich chain, has spent over $2 million in the past week on Ethereum network fees trying to sandwich traders punting on predominantly low-cap tokens. That has driven up fees of the entire network, data from Dune Analytics shows. Each transaction on the Ethereum network costs over $10 as of Asian morning hours on Wednesday – ten times more than last week’s $1 level. Gas fees have spiked. (Dune) The actions of Jaredfromsubway.eth mean they spent 7% of all fees on Ethereum in the past 24 hours, the data shows, becoming the top spender on the network. That is ahead of fees spent by Arbitrum, a layer 2 blockchain that batches transactions on the Ethereum network, and Uniswap, the most-used decentralized exchange. It is unclear how much Jaredfromsubway.eth made from their front-running actions, but given they spent a significant amount – and continue to do so – the gains likely exceed costs by a significant amount. As such, research firm Sealaunch has estimated Jaredfromsubway.eth's gains at over $1.4 million since Tuesday, as per a tweet. Meanwhile, the pepe frenzy is on in full force. Pepe tokens nearly doubled in value in the past 24 hours as Crypto Twitter traders moved over their DOGE-themed token obsession to bet on the internet meme instead, as CoinDesk reported. Scores of pepe wannabes have popped up as well, as have chad, wojak, and babypepe – each a nod to internet memes. Most of these are unlikely to last beyond a few weeks. But unlike then, entities like Jaredlikesubway.eth is eating the gains while fresh.Crypto derivatives protocol Vega has launched the first version of its mainnet, which is designed to support decentralized derivatives trading of financial products such as futures and options. The platform will initially offer cash-settled futures markets, allowing users to deploy strategies to profit from price gyrations. Vega token (VEGA) stakers can propose and vote on the creation of new derivatives markets, and traders can trade without paying gas fees. Market makers can operate as they would on any other orderbook-based exchange and can commit capital on-chain as liquidity providers to earn a portion of trading fees. Trading on Vega is expected to begin in the coming weeks, according to developers. The platform offers no gas fees on trading at low latency and has a feature to discourage front running, which will attract traders to the protocol. Front running is a frowned-on practice in which a market maker or trader buys a token and then sells it on in the same transaction for a slightly higher price.Curve founder Michael Egorov has floated a new liquidity pool on his stablecoin-focused decentralized exchange to address concerns around a possible bad debt situation and alleviate bearish sentiment in CRV tokens. The new pool, crvUSD/fFRAX, is dedicated to FraxLend's CRV/FRAX liquidity pool, from which Egorov has borrowed 15.8 million FRAX stablecoin by locking 59 million CRV as collateral. The pool has attracted over $5 million in liquidity and brought down the utilization rate in FraxLend's FRAX/CRV pool to 54.78%. The move is seen as an attempt to incentivize liquidity towards the lending market and decrease the risk of Egorov's debt spiraling out of control. Analysts say the new pool could provide more time for Egorov to repay his loan and alleviate concerns around the potential liquidation of his CRV-backed loan of 63.2 million tether (USDT) from leading and borrowing marketplace Aave. The FRAX loan has been of particular concern due to the high interest rates that can double every 12 hours, subject to the pool's utilization rate holding at 100%. The introduction of the new pool has reduced the utilization rate, bringing down the APY and providing Egorov with more time to repay the loan. The move has been welcomed by the DeFi community, with pseudonymous DeFi researcher Ignas saying that the new pool is attracting capital to the critical FRAX/CRV lending pool on Fraxlend and reducing the borrowing APY. Delphi Digital also tweeted that the new pool is an attempt to incentivize liquidity towards the lending market in order to lower utilization rates and decrease the risk of Egorov's debt spiraling out of control. So far, the pool has attracted over $5 million in liquidity and brought down the utilization rate in FraxLend's FRAX/CRV pool to 54.78%.Crypto markets are looking to recapture momentum following a down week, with trading volume increasing for both bitcoin and ether but trailing their 20-day moving averages. The CoinDesk Bitcoin Trend Indicator has signaled neutral again, and investors will be watching to see if both assets can recapture their average. Volume will be key to watch, as the sentiment behind any directional move will be amplified or muted by the level of trading volume. The steady decline in trading volume for the two assets implies a reluctance for new market participants to take on risk, and existing market participants to add more. The relative strength index (RSI) readings for both are nestled in a neutral range, with bitcoin's at 44.17 and ether's at 46.25. The RSI indicator ranges from 0 to 100, and is often used as a proxy for momentum; readings above 70 imply that an asset may be overbought, while readings below 30 indicate that an asset may be oversold. Since 2015, BTC and ETH's 30-day performance following similar RSI readings has been relatively mild, with bitcoin historically finishing 4.1% higher, and ETH finishing 2% lower. Absent an external catalyst, investors may read the direction of stablecoins as an indication of where prices are going next. The stablecoin supply ratio (SSR) is a bitcoin-specific metric, measuring BTC's market cap versus the market cap of a basket of stablecoins. Lower volumes indicate greater buying power while higher values indicate the opposite. In this regard, the 11% decline in the SSR since May 5, implies that additional buying strength exists within BTC markets. The aggregate supply of stablecoins on exchanges measures the total supply of stablecoins held on exchange addresses. Increases in aggregate supply are an indication of additional capital available for deployment across all cryptocurrencies. Stablecoin exchange balance is down 47% year to date, despite BTC and ETH trading 65% and 53% higher on the year. An increase in stablecoins supplied to exchanges however, could serve as a signal that prices are poised to move higher.South Korean traders are flocking to two lesser-known cryptocurrencies, Solar (SXP) and icon (ICX), driving up trading volumes and prices on local exchanges. According to CoinGecko data, the ICX-Korean won token pair saw over $420 million in trading volume on Upbit, a prominent South Korean exchange, while the SXP-won trading pair saw over $490 million in volume, more than either bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH) trading pairs. The surge in interest comes as Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, announced it will support a token migration of SXP in the coming days. ICX is popular in South Korea for its local roots and ability to be used for staking, network governance, and collateralization on decentralized-finance platforms. However, some of the volume may be attributable to wash trading, a manipulative technique in which traders continually buy and sell the same asset to drive up volume. South Korean crypto traders have a history of pushing euphoric rallies on tokens, known as the Kimchi Premium, which can result in prices trading as much as 30% above international prices. Last week saw a similar rally in XRP, with Upbit leading global XRP trading volumes with over $790 million worth of tokens traded over a 24-hour period. Despite the surge in interest, it's important to approach these figures with caution and do your own research before investing.

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At least four wallets from bitcoin’s early days have seen signs of activity in the past few days, sparking conversations on Crypto Twitter about the possible reasons behind the activity. The investors are known as 'whales' because they hold large amounts of tokens in their digital wallets and can influence the price or sentiment around a token. One such wallet, which was last active in 2012, moved more than 400 bitcoins ($11 million) over the weekend. Another whale wallet moved 279 bitcoins earlier in April after over 10 years of inactivity. The identities of these whales are unknown, and none of them has said publicly why they are making the moves. The silence has spurred speculation on Crypto Twitter, with possible reasons ranging from developers of the dark web site Silk Road getting access to the whales' wallets to insiders in the know moving tokens ahead of bad news. Some have speculated that the holders' wallet passwords have been cracked. Old wallets have repeatedly been the target for hackers and online thieves, and earlier this month, a massive 'wallet draining operation' affected whales and early holders of ether. The movement of these whales comes on the back of several other whales moving large quantities of bitcoin and ether in the past few weeks.Maple Finance, a blockchain-based crypto lending protocol, is preparing to launch a new lending pool that invests in U.S. Treasury bonds. The pool will allow accredited investors and corporate treasuries based outside of the U.S. to invest their stablecoin holdings in U.S. Treasury bonds and earn a yield. The protocol expects demand for the pool due to crypto investors looking for yields in traditional assets such as government bonds, while trust in banking facilities has decreased after recent bank implosions in the U.S. Maple is also working on additions to its lending offerings, including a new feature called Maple Prime, which will let borrowers actively manage their collateral positions. The protocol plans to expand into open-term lending, which will let borrowers open credit lines to borrow without a maturity date. The developments come as the platform is recovering from a disastrous year for crypto lending that was plagued with insolvencies of borrowers. The MPL token rallied 23% ahead of the community call. The total value locked (TVL) on the protocol dropped to $40 million from $930 million last May, per data by DefiLlama. The MPL token plummeted to as low as $4 from an all-time high of $68.2 last April.

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Ether (ETH) jumped to a nine-month high on Wednesday, with open interest in ether futures reaching $5.6 billion, as investors anticipate the upcoming 'Shapella' upgrade, which will allow for the withdrawal of staked ether. The development is expected to make staking more accessible to retail investors, who have been relying on liquid staking platforms to capture yields from staking ether on Ethereum nodes. Liquid staking tokens, such as LDO and RPL, have surged ahead of the upgrade, with the LSD sector jumping 6% on average. The broader crypto market capitalization rose by a relatively lesser 3%. The article highlights the growing interest in decentralized staking products and the potential for future growth in the sector.Liquidity across bitcoin trading pairs has slumped and failed to recover since the collapse of FTX in November. The apparent exit or reduction in trading by Jane Street and Jump Crypto, two influential cryptocurrency market makers, has the potential to disrupt the fragile flow of liquidity across the industry. Jane Street and Jump are paring back crypto trading in the U.S., amid the regulatory clampdown that spawned out of FTX's collapse. Jump's crypto division will continue to expand globally while Jane Street will scale back on its growth plans. The news is not necessarily surprising given recent developments, but what's concerning is that liquidity has still not recovered from Alameda's collapse, and a slowdown with two of the biggest surviving market makers could weigh on liquidity even further. Market depth, a metric used to measure liquidity on exchanges, slumped by more than 50% following the collapse of FTX and has failed to recover despite a rise in crypto prices. Crypto-native market makers, unlike traditional firms such as Jane Street and Jump, aren't put off by the duo's exodus as the issue is constrained to the U.S. market. An absence of liquidity causes an increase in volatility, which has the potential to create a credit risk that could spread to all sectors of finance.

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GMX, the largest protocol on Arbitrum, has announced its integration with Chainlink's low-latency pricing oracles to enhance its derivatives and perpetual swap exchange. The move marks a shift towards low-latency trading in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, as trading firms and hedge funds require faster platforms to execute sophisticated trading strategies without delays. The integration follows a community vote, with over 96% of votes approving the integration and 2 million GMX tokens being used to vote. The low-latency oracles will help mitigate the risks of front-running and bring the industry one step closer to the performance level currently existing outside of it. GMX contributors have been working with Chainlink Labs since last year on the specifications of the new oracles. The total value locked (TVL) on Arbitrum is at $2.1 billion, with $567 million of that value from GMX, according to DefiLlama data. The surge in GMX's native token has seen a 78% increase since the turn of the year, as capital continues to flow to Arbitrum-based protocols.Nansen, a blockchain data analytics firm, has launched Nansen Query, a platform that allows clients to programmatically access unique, curated datasets pulled from Nansen’s databases. The new product aims to help firms perform blockchain analyses more efficiently by demystifying on-chain transaction history and pricing data. It promises to offer users a complete overview of markets to value “up to 60 times faster than competitors.”nnThe product provides coverage for 95% of all on-chain total value locked, or TVL, asset data and 98% of stablecoin deposit data across 17 blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Optimism, Ronin and Solana. Nansen Query differs from Nansen’s base-level offering by pairing data with the company’s proprietary and trading indicators like the “wash trading filter,” which helps identify suspicious on-chain activity by scanning trades between several linked wallets and transactions bounced between various trading counterparties. Nansen’s labeling system achieves that goal by facilitating firms’ analyses of on-chain data, which, while recorded on a public ledger system, can sometimes be difficult to access. nnA query is a request for data from a database or a request for action on that data that allows users to edit large information sets and identify trends among them. A programming language, like SQL, is used to create a query. Nansen’s data analytics tools, which were released in 2019, have gained traction among firms throughout the cryptocurrency industry, including prominent players like Coinbase (COIN), OpenSea, MakerDAO, Polygon, Avalanche and Andreessen Horowitz.