Why APE, LDO, AAVE are seeing whale interest at the same time

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.

Timeline of Aave, Lido-dao

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) traded lower, with the cryptocurrency prices falling below the key $29,000 level on Tuesday. Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) also moved lower, trading below the key $1,900 mark this morning.

Curve Finance suffered a significant exploit over the weekend, with attackers managing to siphon off around $70 million worth of assets from users. Curve founder Michael Egorov has a loan of around $70 million in USDT on Aave v2, using CRV as collateral.

Key Points: Justin Sun has made a strategic decision to withdraw approximately 52.5 million stablecoins from the decentralized lending platform, AAVE. The sizable withdrawal consists of approximately 40.7 million USDT and 11.7 million USDC, stirring curiosity and speculation in the crypto community.

Curve Founder Michael Egorov's $168M in holdings is under stress, imperiling DeFi as a whole. PLUS: The Litecoin Foundation and crypto cold-storage card manufacturer Ballet HAVE teased a sale of 500 collectable cards – fashioned from 50 grams of fine silver.

The stablecoin GHO, created by DeFi platform Aave, lost its $1 peg for a few hours on July 31. The token has risen to $0.98 since then, and analysts are theorizing what might have caused the depeg.

Aave's price surged to $88 just two weeks ago, but currently, the altcoin is experiencing a correction. Over the past 24 hours, Aave has dropped over 4%, and on the weekly chart, it has depreciated more than 7%.

ave's Q2 2023 report shows a 9% growth in total value supplied, outpacing the market. Key developments include the launch of GHO stablecoin, a rise in stETH deposits, and the anticipated release of Portals.

Often compared to replacing an airplane engine while in flight, the overhaul of Ethereum's consensus mechanism from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake — without downtime — was no small feat.

Lending and borrowing platform Aave (AAVE) has launched a new decentralized stablecoin on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. The dollar-pegged stablecoin, called GHO (GHO), is governed by the Aave decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Nader Dabit, the director of developer relations at Aave, says that GHO is an “overcollateralized” stablecoin.

Aave Companies has unveiled version two of its Lens Protocol and introduced several new features for the web3 social app. Lens Protocol Now Allows Blocking Lens Protocol's parent organization, Aave Companies, has launched the much-anticipated V2 of the web3 social app.