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Martin Young4 hours agoCurve founder looks to unexpected counterparties to rescue sinking DeFi loansMichael Egorov is attempting to pay off his mountain of DeFi debts by selling CRV at a discount.1371 Total views28 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksCurve Finance founder Michael Egorov is attempting to offload some of his DeFi positions to alleviate his mountain of debt, but some have highlighted his liquidity sources.


On Aug. 1, Nansen research analyst Sandra Leow posted a list of liquidity sources for Egorov’s Curve DAO (CRV) positions.


According to Leow, Egorov sold around 50 million CRV tokens over-the-counter to several buyers at a below-market rate of $0.40 per token. The sale includes a three-to- six-month vesting agreement or they can be sold should prices reach $0.80.The Curve OTC War updates:

17.5M CRV to 0xf51

5M CRV to Justin Sun

4.25M CRV to DCFGod

2.5M CRV to Ox4d3

2.5M CRV to DWF Labs

2.5M CRV to Cream: Multisig

1.25M CRV to 0xcb5

3.75M CRV to machibigbrother.eth

250k CRV to 0x9bf— Sandra (@sandraaleow) August 1, 2023


Some of the bigger players involved include Tron founder Justin Sun, who was recently sued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.


Other notable buyers included tech entrepreneur Jeffrey Huang, better known as “MachiBigBrother,” whom Twitter personality ZachXBT last year accused of embezzling 22,000 Ether (ETH), currently valued at over $41 million. Huang has denied the claims and in June sued ZachXBT for defamation.


DWF Labs, an investment firm that also engages in market making, also snapped up some discounted tokens.


Others include the DeFi lending protocol Cream Finance; “DCFGod,” who is listed as part of a team for a nonfungible token (NFT) project; and three other crypto wallets.


Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said that some of the people and entities Egorov is dealing with “are kind of questionable,” adding that Wintermute hadn’t onboarded Egorov as a counterparty.


The Curve founder took out a $100 million DeFi stablecoin loan using his own CRV stash as collateral. However, the protocol was exploited on July 30, resulting in a 30% crash in CRV prices.


As the price of CRV neared the liquidation price, which is $0.362 according to DeFiLlama, fears have mounted of a DeFi black swan event with so much CRV potentially flooding markets with limited liquidity.


However, since some of the debts have been repaid, the token has recovered over the past 24 hours and was trading at $0.597 at the time of writing.


Related:Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit


Egorov has paid off more than $17 million in stablecoin loans, increasing the health of the loan slightly, according to Debank.


However, the DeFi founder still has a mountain of debt to pay with $60 million in stablecoins on Aave, $12 million on Abracadabra and around $8 million on Inverse.


He also has a $9 million loan on Frax, which concerned some onlookers due to its 85% interest rate.


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