ChainCatcher news, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, is exploring ways to strengthen financial ties with Tether, the world's largest stablecoin operator, planning to launch a $2 billion project to provide dollar loans to clients using Bitcoin as collateral.Howard Lutnick's financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald is in discussions to secure support from Tether to help fund the project, which could amount to several billion dollars.Tether currently holds billions of dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds through Cantor's custody business, which underpins the value of its dominant USDT stablecoin. According to insiders, this custody relationship generates tens of millions of dollars in revenue for Cantor each year.

ChainCatcher news, the Sui ecosystem lending project Suilend announced that it is expected to launch its native token SEND in December, with more details on the tokenomics, release date, and release mechanism to be announced soon.

ChainCatcher news, the cloud gaming PC lending project Shaga announced on platform X that it has completed a $1 million angel round of financing, led by arca, with participation from Skybridge20VC, AuroryProject, quotientvc, MARINDIGITALVEN, and angel investors including amirhaleem, stephenakridge, pavelbains, harkl_, spacemandev, PashiPas, gaoyuan121, among others.It is understood that Shaga (PC lending) is attempting to address issues in cloud gaming. Historically, cloud gaming has performed poorly due to the high cost of services and latency issues in accessing servers. Shaga aims to better alleviate these cost and latency problems by trustlessly lending personal computers at a local level.

ChainCatcher news, the lending project Shoebill Finance has announced the airdrop details and some token information. Three months after the TGE, 500,000 SBL will be airdropped to MANTA holders. In addition, current users supplying, borrowing, repaying, and withdrawing STONE, wUSDM, ETH, and USDC assets within the protocol can participate in pre-mining to earn SBP (ShoeBill Point). SBP can be directly exchanged for SBL and MANTA airdrops at the end of the event, which is expected to conclude on April 19.Data shows that Shoebill Finance is currently the second-largest lending protocol in the Manta Network ecosystem, with a TVL that once exceeded $190 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to a tweet from MetaTrust Alert, the DeFi lending project steadefi deployed on Arbitrum and Avalanche has suffered an attack with losses amounting to approximately $1,140,000. The ownership of all vaults has been compromised and transferred to the attacker's wallet (0x9cf71).The attacker called privileged functions to gain access to all borrowable assets on Arbitrum and Avalanche, then exchanged them for ETH and bridged the ETH to Ethereum. The wallet on Ethereum now holds 624 ETH (worth $1.14 million).

ChainCatcher message, dForce announced that its wstETH/ETH Curve gauge on Arbitrum and Optimism was attacked a few hours ago. dForce immediately paused dForce Vaults and stated that other parts of the protocol were not attacked, and users' funds in dForce Lending are safe. dForce will soon release a detailed report and remediation measures. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized lending project Flux Finance has announced its launch on the Ethereum mainnet, aiming to provide users with exposure to U.S. Treasury yields. Flux connects on-chain and off-chain worlds by supporting permissionless assets such as stablecoins and permissioned assets like tokenized securities.Currently, lenders can provide stablecoins (USDC and DAI) to earn yields, while borrowers can collateralize tokenized Treasuries as collateral. The tokenized Treasuries supported at launch by Flux take the form of OUSG, specifically investing in BlackRock's iShares Short Treasury ETF (SHV). Lenders providing USDC will receive freely transferable fUSDC.Flux was initially developed by Ondo Finance and is now an autonomous protocol, with upgrades managed by ONDO holders through the Ondo DAO. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized cross-chain trading protocol THORChain announced that it will launch a non-liquidation lending project in the first quarter of 2023. THORChain stated that as collateral gains equity in the system, a decrease in collateral value will reduce the overall liabilities of the system. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the anonymous founder of the DeFi data website DeFiLlama, 0xngmi, announced on Twitter that the NFT lending project llamalend is about to launch, and the smart contract has been completed and open-sourced on Github.According to the contract introduction, llamalend is mainly used for NFT collateral loans in the long-tail market, specifically targeting small collectibles, featuring no liquidation, pay-as-you-go, and fixed rates based on pool utilization. (source link)