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Weekly Roundup – 12.16

The crypto winter weather is frightful, but Weekly Roundup is here to keep you and your wallet warm. 🔥

Protocols can be a pain to keep up with – let us help. Our team finds the most interesting protocols and breaks down what you need to know and why they need to be on your radar.

 - a novel concentrated liquidity AMM that enables limit orders

 - enables yield farming on concentrated liquidity positions

 - a borrowing protocol on BNB Chain that issues the HAY stablecoin

Should investors shelter in place during downturns?

In Vol II of our bear market series, we discuss intermediate passive and active DeFi investment strategies. Here’s how you can keep calm and #DegenResponsibly during the bear market 🐻📈📉. 

Don’t miss our next #DegenResponsibly next Monday, 12/19, at 11AM ET.

We'll chat about what makes 0vix unique and how they manage risk for lenders. As usual, attendees can claim a cool POAP 😎

Paranoia is at an all-time high amid a surge of withdrawals from the largest crypto exchange, Binance.

On-chain data analytics firm, CryptoQuant, believes Binance is not the next FTX. The firm points to on-chain data to support 

 that the exchange is over-collateralized. CryptoQuant noted Binance is not experiencing the same volume of outflows that FTX had in the days leading up to its collapse. Overall, withdrawals have increased as fear continues to spread, though still relatively small compared to the 

. CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted he “welcomes the stress test.”

What a wild turn of events — SBF was arrested and faces U.S. charges.

Just one month after the second largest crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of U.S. prosecutors. The Bahamas is pursuing its own regulatory and criminal investigations in addition to processing SBF’s extradition to the U.S.

Ethereum devs choose to prioritize staked ETH withdrawals for the network’s next major upgrade.

Ethereum developers have chosen to prioritize Beacon Chain withdrawals for the network’s Shanghai upgrade. This will delay the implementation of “The Surge,” which is dubbed the sequel to “The Merge” and is expected to help Ethereum process transactions faster by changing the way the blockchain manages its workload. This change in the roadmap comes after community criticism that ETH stakers are still not yet able to withdraw their staked ETH.

Accredited investors will soon be able to invest in DeFi liquidity pools across major chains directly on our custodial platform.