Singapore-based 3AC is one of the higher profile crypto companies to have run into difficulties following crypto markets' selloff in recent months
As cryptocurrencies get hammered in the economic meltdown, stablecoins -- whose value is pegged to another asset like a fiat currency or a commodity -- are also bad investments and are ill-suited as a form of money, Siddharth Tiwari, the Asia-Pacific head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), has said.
Crypto loans - particularly those in decentralized-finance apps that dispense with intermediaries like banks - often require borrowers to put up more collateral than the loan is worth
The environment, of course, has been strained by a number of hacks, as well as combustions of stablecoin projects and foldings of big-name crypto hedge funds
With token prices plummeting, customers unable to transfer money to their accounts and a dreaded tax on cryptos just around the corner, exchanges like WazirX have put expansion plans on back burner
Chinese state-run newspaper The Economic Daily earlier justified China's ban on cryptocurrency trading by taking examples of the collapse of stablecoins terraUSD and luna whose value reached zero.
Those who don't anything to do with this highly volatile asset class may also throw in the towel
Bitcoin reversed earlier losses to trade 0.5% higher for the session
Mounting Crypto Liquidations Make DeFi Go to Extremes: Industry fears contagion as Bitcoin struggles to keep above key level of $20,000
Bitcoin has lost almost 60% of its value this year and 37% this month alone in the cryptocurrency sector's latest meltdown
The price of a bitcoin inched above USD 20,000 on Sunday after the broader crypto selloff dragged it below the significant psychological threshold a day earlier
The world's largest cryptocurrency climbed as much as 12% early Sunday, recouping some of its losses from a steep drop Saturday that sent the token to as low as $17,599
The digital currency sector has been pummelled this week after cryptocurrency lending company Celsius froze withdrawals.
Global and domestic prices have been on a downward trail since November last year when Bitcoin prices hit a peak of close to $68,000 in international markets
The value of the global crypto market has tumbled 70% to under $900 billion from a peak of $2.97 trillion in November, CoinMarketCap data shows
A market that started sliding late last year on expectations of tighter monetary policy is now showing signs of widespread panic
Bitcoin plunged more than 15% Monday and another 5.4% Tuesday, part of a broader crypto selloff fueled by higher than forecast US inflation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said the software firm was capable of withstanding volatility in bitcoin prices after the token slumped to levels that triggered fears of possible liquidation
The 10 purchases announced by President Nayib Bukele via Twitter have a market value of just over $51 mn, with the biggest single trade - 420 coins at more than $59,000 per coin - down almost 63%
Top cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) further nosedived to around $21,000 per coin on Tuesday, a level it saw some five years ago