Key Takeaways 

• Do Kwon, CEO and founder of Terraform Labs, announced the launch of a revolutionary liquidity pool with major stablecoins UST, USDT, USDC, and FRAX.

• Wave Financial is launching a US$100 million fund to offer liquidity for new DeFi platforms built on Cardano (ADA) ecosystem.

• 6S Capital, a commercial lender powered by MakerDAO (MKR), closed a real estate financing deal worth US$7.8 million for Tesla, the world’s leading electric vehicle company. Since March 2022, MakerDAO has been embracing real-world assets (RWAs) by integrating with under-collateralised lending protocols.

• Single Finance (SINGLE), the first DeFi protocol offering USD-based capital-protecting strategies for leveraged yield farmers built on Cronos chain, has officially gone live with its dApp.

• This week’s price, volume, and volatility indices were all positive at +17.52%, +82.55%, and +106.92%, respectively.

Highlights

• Wombat Exchange raises US$5.25 million in Series A funding led by Animoca Brands and Hailstone Ventures

• BNY Mellon to Custody Assets Backing Circle's USDC stablecoin

• Voltage Finance suffers US$4 million stablecoin theft

• Crypto bridge Wormhole seeks US$2.5 billion price tag in private token sale

• Cashio (CASH) hacker sets conditions to return stolen US$50 million

• DeFi lender Inverse Finance (INV) exploited for US$15.6 million

• Ola Finance says attackers stole U$4.7 million in ‘re-entrancy' exploit

• MetaMask rolls out Apple Pay integration and other iOS updates

• DeFi Technologies subsidiary Valour surpasses US$274 million in AUM

• Degis launches comprehensive DeFi insurance protocol on Avalanche

• Hector Finance (HEC) announces the launch of its hotly anticipated cross-chain DEX

• SynFutures nears U$1 billion in monthly trade volume on Polygon

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*Top DeFi tokens based on CoinGecko

Source: CoinGecko

*DeFI index tokens: AAVE, ANC, BAL, CAKE, COMP, CRV, CVX, FXS, JOE, LDO, LINK, MKR, OSMO, REN, SNX, SPELL, SUSHI, UNI, VVS, YFI

Notable Events

• FXS topped the change metrics, likely linked to Do Kwon’s announcement on the revolutionary stablecoins liquidity pool.

• AAVE has surged over 80% since its V3 launch.

* % change is based on the difference between two consecutive weekly periods

** Omitted due to incomplete source data

Source: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama, Nomics

Notable Events

DeFi sector TVL rises in general, as investors return to a bullish crypto market.

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