Curve Impressively Adds 22% As Founder Sells CRV To Repay Aave Loan

CRV, the governance token of Curve, a decentralized exchange for stablecoins and a key player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, has impressively recovered, adding 22% after sinking to its August 2023 lows this week. When writing on August 3, CRV is trading at $0.59, rising double digits after dropping to $0.48 on August 1 following a damaging hack that saw liquidity providers in several pools lose funds.

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Curve Finance (CRV) has issued a statement on Etherscan, addressing the hackers responsible for the recent exploit that resulted in the loss of over $60 million from the protocol. In the statement, Curve, Metronome & Alchemix have invited the hackers to discuss a potential bounty, offering a 10% reward for any stolen funds, which they can keep if they return the remaining 90%.

Curve Finance's native token CRV has recovered from a 6-month low, and many believe that the news of Huobi co-founder Jun Du buying CRV tokens has contributed to it. Jun Du bought 10 million tokens valued at $4 million from Micheal Egorov, founder of Curve.

By acquiring 5 million CRV tokens at the current price, this proposal seeks to send a powerful signal of solidarity within the DeFi space. Additionally, it would strategically position the Aave DAO in the ongoing “Curve wars,” while also bolstering the liquidity of Aave's decentralized multi-collateral stablecoin, GHO.

It has been a few days since decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance suffered a major attack that saw as much as $50 million drained from its coffers and, for the first time, its native token CRV is on a bullish run. Per data from CoinMarketCap, CRV is trading at a price of $0.5888, up by as much as 7.2% over the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

The Aave Chan Initiative, introduced within the Aave governance forum, suggested acquiring $2 million worth of curve tokens (CRV) from Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve. Spearheaded by Marc Zeller, the creator of Pandemic's blockchain consultancy firm and a key player in Aave Companies, the initiative is a delegate platform that operates closely with Aave.

Whales are starting to accumulate various tokens across the crypto sector in an attempt to diversify their portfolio. NFT, Lending and Liquid Staking tokens have become key areas of focus.

A widely followed crypto strategist says a short squeeze could materialize for an altcoin project that just suffered a $41 million hack. Pseudonymous analyst Credible Crypto tells his 343,200 Twitter followers that Curve (CRV) is experiencing a massive amount of short interest.

The Curve Finance lending protocol has recently taken significant steps to address the vulnerabilities and exploits it faced in July. In response to the July 30 Curve exploit and the July 6 Multichain exploit, the protocol has terminated governance token rewards for certain liquidity pools.

DeFi lending protocol, Abracadabra Money, is currently debating a proposal to boost the interest rate in its CRV lending markets as it looks to mitigate its exposure to the DeFi token. In the last few days, CRV has seen its value decline significantly due to the recent Curve Finance exploit on Sunday, which resulted in a total loss of over $60 million.

Abracadabra Money, a cross-blockchain lending platform, has proposed to raise the interest rate on its existing loans to address potential risks related to its exposure to Curve (CRV).