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“A loan worth more than $278 million, one of the biggest single loans on decentralized lending platform MakerDAO, is labeled as a loan made by Celsius, according to data tracker Block Analitica. If Bitcoin falls below $22,534.89, the position will be liquidated, adding more sell pressure for Bitcoin, the analytics firm said.

Data shows that the address used 17,919 wrapped Bitcoin, a version of Bitcoin that can be used in decentralized finance, as collateral for a loan worth $278,490,419 in the decentralized stablecoin DAI. While the blockchain explorer Etherescan didn’t labeled the wallet as Celsius, a wallet from Celsius sent additional 2,000 wrapped Bitcoin to support the position. Celsius did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the wallets.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/bitcoin-s...




Seems they're trying to deposit more BTC into the contract to push down the liquidation price:

https://nitter.net/DU09BTC/status/1536353233156902914#m

Seems to have managed to push it to 18k. Quite the gamble.


22 534.89 * 17 919 = 403 786 746

So, am I reading this right that 403 M$ are used to secure 278 M$?

Or maybe are they accounting for market impact (by way of thin order book) for when the position is liquidated?


Loans in DeFi are generally highly over collateralized, so you are probably reading it correctly.




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