DeFi Lending and DEX Fees Slump as Leverage Drains Out After June Selloff
Fees across DeFi's largest lending protocols and decentralized exchanges fell by as much as much as 65%, a broad contraction that lending and credit-market operators attribute to leverage unwinding after early June's sel...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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