The month of June saw a lot of ups and downs for the ecosystem at large. Lending markets TVL stayed relatively stable over the month.
Starting with the key leverage developments of the month:
All CRV loans of Michael Egorov were liquidated. The team issued liquidation risk & $CRV Burn Proposal. The team later updated clearance of all bad debt on LlamaLend
Curve Finance adopts crvUSD for fee distribution
Proposal to deploy a tailored Aave v3 market for Lido
Morpho Blue launched on Base, reached $50M deposits in 10 days.
LlamaRisk introduced an update in interest rate model for crvUSD, adding a time-based mechanism from Frax Variable Rate v2.
Symbiotic launched permissionless staking protocol, with a modular design to support a mix of restaked collateral
SparkLend proposed changed for upcoming epoch
Gauntlet released a dashboard to monitor LRT’s potential market risks
Asymmetry, Ampleforth launched afUSD to rival Ethena’s synthetic dollar
FluidDex launched to allow money market users to earn more on collateral & get discount on debt, and for professional LPs to create leveraged LP position.
Theo launched the framework to leverage assets across protocols. First protocol built on Theo is Straddle that coordinates risk between Aave and Hyperliquid.
Paxos announced yield-bearing stablecoin Lift Dollar (USDL)
Defi.money launched an EVM-agnostic stablecoin MONEY, powered by LLAMA. The protocol also entered into a licensing agreement with Curve finance.
f(x) protocol launched arUSD, powered by rUSD and EtherFi points
Orbs network launched Perpetual Hub, an intent-based perpetual futures protocol
Myso introduced Whale match, a convertible debt marketplace on Arbitrum for funding novel debt deals
Uma protocol’s Oval enabled lending markets deployed by Re7capital on Morpho, enabling OEV capture
Spectra protocol launched its permissionless DeFi yields protocol
Security Incidents
DMM, a Japan-based exchange experienced $305 million hack
UwULend suffered a $19M hack. This was followed by a second exploit of $3.7M
Holograph was exploited, enabling minting of 1 billion additional HLG
Prisma issued a reimbursement plan following the security incident last month
Miscellaneous
Coinbase launched smart wallets
Layerzero launched on Solana
Mastercard crypto credential launched for peer-to-peer transactions
Uniswap postponed fee switch vote
Paradigm researches MEV taxes
Robinhood acquiring Bitstamp
Graph protocol transitioned to Decentralized Data Layer
Berachain launched Public Testnet bArtio B2
Regulatory
US SEC closes investigation in Ethereum 2.0
SEC charges Consensys Software for unregistered offers and sales of securities through its MetaMask staking service. Consensys responded with a statement.