Celsius changes legal team, pays off $20M in Aave debts
The embattled platform continues to wind down its debts to decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols, having just paid off 20 million USDC to Aave. Crypto lending platform Celsius has reportedly hired lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to advise on its restructuring options — the same firm that assisted Voyager Digital with its bankruptcy filing last week. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal on July 10, the company has hired lawyers to advise on options, including a bankruptcy filing in place of the previously hired law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.Kirkland &....
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Celsius Network has been aggressively paying down all of its debt since it first stopped withdrawals, swaps, and transfers on its platform. The lending platform had loans spread across various protocols, some of which were dangerously close to being liquidated. However, Celsius had paid off its debts, pushing the liquidation price further down each time […]
Celsius has been at the center of most crypto controversies in the last month. The lending platform had had to pause withdrawals, transfers, and swaps on its platform, citing extreme market conditions as the reason, but that was only the beginning of its troubles. However, Celsius looks to be taking it on the chin because contrary to what others have done, the platform has made moves to pay down its debts and has now beaten down its liquidation price by more than 200%. Celsius Pays $120 Million In Loans The beginning of the week came with good news for the Celsius lending platform which....
The Fantom market on Aave v3 adds just $30 each day to the DeFi protocol's treasury; developers are also concerned that the integration creates security risks. On Tuesday, Marc Zeller, integration lead at decentralized finance (DeFi) borrowing and lending protocol Aave, proposed to freeze the platform's v3 Fantom market. Created in 2018, Fantom is a directed acrylic graph smart contract platform that provides DeFi services and on which Aave is currently bridged. Zeller explained the rationale for removing the Fantom bridge:"After the Harmony bridge event and the recent Nomad bridge....
Celsius has been moving more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of funds from Aave into the FTX exchange for reasons not specified in addition to suspending withdrawals for users. Crypto staking and lending platform Celsius may be dealing with its rumored liquidity crisis by unstaking $247 million worth of Wrapped Bitcoin from Aave and sending it to FTX exchange.Speculations among the crypto community are now flaring as the project has been moving massive amounts of WBTC, ETH, and other crypto assets in addition to pausing withdrawals for users. Celsius users have criticized the....
"Prime Trust was obligated under the Bankruptcy Code to deliver all property belonging to Celsius [...] including these remaining crypto assets," said Celsius' legal team. Crypto lending platform Celsius Network has filed a lawsuit claiming that custodian Prime Trust failed to turn over roughly $17 million worth of cryptocurrency.In a Tuesday filing with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, Celsius’ legal team brought a complaint against Prime Trust, alleging the company did not return $17 million worth of crypto assets in June 2021 when it terminated its....