Cointelegraph Consulting: DeFi hit by a tsunami of liquidations in May
The DeFi space crashed along with the rest of the market on May 19, but the liquidations mechanisms passed the biggest stress test. The savage sell-off that took place in mid-May fueled volatility in markets and triggered liquidations among numerous decentralized finance protocols. Like an earthquake, the market fall exacerbated the biggest wave of liquidations in DeFi history. The market experienced a higher amount of liquidation on May 19 than in the past two years in the DeFi space. As part of the Market Insights bi-weekly newsletter, Cointelegraph Consulting teamed up with Covalent to....
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