Daily Flash | Solend Labs Revotes to Seize Whale Account With Big Margin Position In An Attempt to Prevent Crash

Today's Headline - Solana Lending Platform ‘Solend’ Reconsiders ‘Takeover’ Of Whale Account

Solend, a DeFi lending protocol on Solana, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a proposal to mitigate risk imposed by a specific user with a big margin position on Solend.

The user in question accounts for around 95% of the SOL deposits on the platform and has borrowed around 88% of the USDC available on the platform. This means that users are unable to withdraw their USDC deposits and that the SOL if liquidated would be too large for the market to absorb, potentially leaving the platform with bad debt.

The proposal passed to remedy the situation grants Solend Labs "emergency powers" to “takeover” the whale account and liquidate its vulnerable assets (around $20 million in SOL) via over-the-counter (OTC) trades instead of decentralised exchanges. This move was met with friction from a majority of the wider DeFi community on Twitter.

Facing backlash, the community has now gone back to the ballot box with a second vote to decide on whether to invalidate the results of the first vote and extend the voting time by a day to work on a new plan minus ‘emergency powers.’

The crypto lending platform has been placed in a dilemma. If Solend were to take over the whale’s wallet and be granted emergency powers, it might save Solana from a DeFi implosion. However, it would show that anyone’s assets can be confiscated within the platform and could cause a boycott.

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This was enough to send the meme coin pumping 14% to $0.0604.

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Author: Gate.io Researcher Peter L.
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