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Tech

Days After Ditching Aave, Risk Manager Gauntlet Moves to Rival Lender Morpho

According to Gauntlet, the move offers the potential for more money with greater flexibility.

Gauntlet founder and CEO Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)

Tech

Risk Manager Gauntlet Terminates Relationship with Aave, Citing DAO Dysfunction

Gauntlet co-founder John Morrow said his team "found it difficult to navigate the inconsistent guidelines and unwritten objectives" of Aave's "largest stakeholders."

Profit, Risk and Loss. (Gino Crescoli/Pixabay)

Markets

Aave Community Votes To Integrate PayPal’s Stablecoin

Majority of token holders favor onboard PYUSD in AAVE's Ethereum pool, the ongoing vote shows.

Aave is the Finnish word for ghost (Metis)

Consensus Magazine

Stani Kulechov Defied Crypto Winter

With upgrades to the Aave lending/borrowing protocol and Lens, an open-source social media protocol, the Estonian native kept BUIDLing in a down-market.

Stani Kulechov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Finance

Aave's GHO Stablecoin Nears Elusive Dollar Peg

A "benevolent temporary dictator" is helping the not-so-stablecoin get on track.

The Aave ghost (Aave)

Tech

Lens, Aave's Decentralized Social Media Platform, Launches Major Upgrade on Polygon

The open source protocol spearheaded by DeFi giant Stani Kulechov has released a bevy of new monetization features.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, speaks at Consensus 2019.

Videos

Curve Founder Michael Egorov Deposits $35M CRV to Settle Debt on Aave

Curve founder Michael Egorov has deposited 68 million CRV tokens worth $35 million to settle his entire debt position on DeFi lending platform Aave, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

Recent Videos

Finance

Curve Founder Michael Egorov Deposits $35M CRV to Settle Debt on Aave

Egorov now has $132 million worth of collateral and $42 million in debt across all other DeFi lenders.

CRV token bounces 3% (CoinDesk data)

CoinDesk Indices

DeFi and Credit Risk

This potentially disruptive sector must set aside some of its lofty ideals, for now, and focus on financial solutions with demonstrable global demand and adoption.

(Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash)

Tech

Curve Crisis Shows Pitfalls of Decentralized Risk Management

Top DeFi lenders allowed a crypto CEO to take a risky bet, raising key questions about how they manage risk.

Photo of Stani Kulechov in 2019 (CoinDesk archive)