Bitcoin Falls Below $20k; Solend Votes to Takeover Whale Account

23 Jun 2022

📉BTC | $20,427.50 ($-51.73, -0.25%)          
📉ETH | $1,089.64 ($-15.44, -1.40%)   
📈XRP | $0.323621 (+$0.000613, +0.19%)      
📈LTC | $54.57 (+$2.60, +5.00%)      

📉Total Crypto Market Cap: The global crypto market cap is $901.54B (-0.97%)  

😩On Wednesday, Bitcoin (BTC) fell below the $20,000 mark, ending a three-day streak of price increases. BTC was just down more than 0.2% over the last 24 hours, trading at around $20,400. Ether was recently changing hands at approximately $1,090, down over 1.4% in the past 24 hours. Other altcoins were in the green with XRP and LTC rising by 0.2% and 5% respectively.

🌞Users of Solana-based borrowing and lending service Solend voted on Sunday to force a takeover of the protocol’s largest account: a whale whose “extremely large margin position” threatened a catastrophic on-chain liquidation cliff. The vote will give Solend Labs “emergency powers” to liquidate the whale’s vulnerable assets through over-the-counter (OTC) trading rather than decentralized exchanges should the price fall too low.

⚠️As prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum plummeted by roughly 6% and 8% on Wednesday, shares of Coinbase Global (COIN) fell by 7%, lagging behind rivals exposed to the cryptocurrency market. This comes after Binance.US declared that it would begin offering bitcoin trading with no fees. Meanwhile, crypto-exposed stocks such as Galaxy and MSTR gained 0.6% and lost 1% respectively.


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