Mounting Crypto Liquidations Make DeFi Go to Extremes
- Solend lending app takes unprecedented steps to avert losses
- Many DeFi apps are facing massive liquidations of collateral
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The record-setting rout in cryptocurrencies has put a slew of decentralized-finance applications and their communities in a race to protect themselves against a cascade of liquidations -- sometimes by employing unprecedented measures.
On Sunday, token holders of Solend, a lending app on the Solana blockchain, voted to temporarily take over a large user’s account that faced the threat of a large liquidation, an extreme move for DeFi that appears to be a first. That decision was reversed in a second vote on Monday.