{"id":82904,"date":"2023-08-10T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82904"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:50:20","slug":"binance-invested-5-million-in-curve-dao-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/binance-invested-5-million-in-curve-dao-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance Invested $5 Million in Curve DAO Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binance&#8217;s venture arm invested $5 million in Curve DAO tokens (CRV).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Binance-Labs.webp\\\" alt=\\\"Binance-Labs\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-213389\\\"\/><figcaption class=\\\"wp-element-caption\\\">Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BinanceLabs\/status\/1689638339539095553?s=20\\\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Binance Labs head Yi He noted that, as part of the collaboration, Curve Finance would also launch on BNB Chain.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/governance-tokens-vs-utility-tokens-whats-the-difference\">governance token<\/a> of the lending platform rose by 1.2%, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/curve-dao-token\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On July 30, the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-drains-curve-finance-liquidity-pools-of-47-million\">attacked<\/a> the Curve Finance liquidity pools and withdrew more than $50 million, using a vulnerability in the Vyper code.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the incident, DeFi protocol founder Mikhail Egorov began actively selling CRV tokens on the over-the-counter market \u2014 apparently to avoid liquidations on various lending platforms amid the price drop and volatility of the asset. Among buyers were notable crypto industry figures, including <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/justin-sun-buys-2-9-million-worth-of-crv-tokens\">Justin Sun, co-founder of Tron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Egorov had sold a total of 156 million CRV worth $46.4 million. His aggregate debt on a number of crypto-lending services <a href=\\\"https:\/\/debank.com\/profile\/0x7a16ff8270133f063aab6c9977183d9e72835428\\\">amounts to about $50 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Curve Finance hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/curve-hacking-hacker-returns-part-of-stolen-assets\">began returning funds<\/a>. On August 4, he sent back assets worth more than $20 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binance&#8217;s venture arm invested $5 million in Curve DAO tokens (CRV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,1426,52],"class_list":["post-82904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-curve-crv","tag-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82906,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82904\/revisions\/82906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}