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Crypto’s Looping Trade Hack Shows DeFi Is Eating Its Own Tail

What began as a simple yield strategy quickly morphed into a stack of interlinked exposures.
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Sidhartha Shukla writes how in decentralized finance, the line between innovation and instability is thinner than advertised.

Crypto’s favorite yield-generating strategy is starting to look less like cutting-edge financial engineering and more like an ouroboros — a self-feeding loop now biting back.