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Defi protocols declined by $124 billion in 6 weeks.

Rate Captain by Rate Captain
June 21, 2022
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The total value locked (TVL) on ethereum, a metric that attempts to track the value of tokens deposited in a variety of DeFi protocols, has declined by $124 billion or 60% over the last six weeks, according to data provider Glassnode.

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The crash has occurred in two large crypto slices, $94 billion lost during the collapse of the LUNA project – involving failed stablecoin TerraUSD – and another $30 billion in mid-June, said Glassnode, which attributed the falls to diminishing risk appetite.

Crypto lending may not be down and out, but it’s certainly on the ropes.Crypto lenders have boomed over the past two years, attracting tens of billions of dollars in bitcoin, ether and other coins which they in turn lent out or invested, often in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with sky-high returns.

But as crypto markets tumble, DeFi activity is being hit particularly hard, robbing lenders of their most lucrative returns and threatening to squeeze the whole sector – reaching far beyond Celsius Network, which grabbed the headlines last week when it froze withdrawals and transfers.

“The current market conditions have put an enormous amount of pressure on operators that interact with decentralized finance protocols to generate their yield,” said Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, co-founder and chief strategy officer of crypto lender Ledn.

BITCOIN VS ETHER VS DOLLAR

Similarly, an index tracking crypto tokens linked to DeFi lending/borrowing protocols and exchanges, from research firm Macrohive, plunged 35% last week as investors pulled money from the formerly high-flying sector.

Some DeFi protocols, or projects, are starting to offer lower returns, with average lending and borrowing rates at one platform, Compound, down on the week across all but one cryptocurrency, the stablecoin Pax Dollar, Macrohive found.

In a further sign of the slowdown, ether – the token that underpins the ethereum network on which many DeFi protocols operate – last week dropped to its lowest level against larger peer bitcoin in 14 months

Versus the dollar, bitcoin has fallen 34% so far in June, while ether has lost over 40%.

The turmoil in this higher yielding part of the crypto market raises questions about the sustainability of the high interest rates crypto lenders offer to their customers, often in double digits.

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?

Some market players say crypto lenders should make clients aware of the risks of projects their money is pumped into.

“I expect users to demand more transparency if their assets are managed in DeFi space,” said Iakov Levin, CEO of crypto investment platform Midas Investments. “Crypto needs to find a more transparent model of retail yields.”

New Jersey-based Celsius, with over $11 billion of assets on its platform, cited market volatility when it suspended redemptions last week. A data trawl shows that it was invested in several DeFi projects that ran into difficulties.

“The DeFi market will no doubt suffer from this development because it also deals with cryptocurrencies and people will be more wary than ever about investing their assets in what they perceive as similar ecosystems,” said Yubo Ruan, founder and CEO of Parallel Finance, a decentralized lending protocol.

Ruan said if projects “promise rewards that sound too good to be true – there’s always a chance that they are”.

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