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Curve Finance officially announced that it is introducing a bad debt recovery mechanism based on on-chain market mechanisms, allowing CRV-affected users in certain lending markets with bad debts to choose different recovery strategies: directly selling their claims to exit, continuing to hold and wait for potential recovery, or providing liquidity to earn fees and incentives. The core of this mechanism is to establish a trading pool between crvUSD and the tokens of the affected claims, allowing bad debt claims to be priced in the market and creating liquidity, thereby providing users with an immediate exit channel instead of relying solely on the final liquidation results.It is reported that after the cryptocurrency market crash in October last year, some lending markets under Curve Finance experienced bad debt issues, with various liquidity pools being impacted by severe price fluctuations and liquidity contraction, leading to some deposit users facing withdrawal restrictions and asset losses.Curve stated that the recovery mechanism will not eliminate losses or guarantee recovery, but will gradually reflect risks and recovery expectations through a market-oriented approach. Additionally, if the governance layer distributes rewards through the veCRV incentive mechanism, it will help enhance liquidity depth, improve exit conditions, and strengthen market pricing efficiency.

The Curve team has published a proposal on the governance forum, addressing approximately $700,000 in bad debt generated by the CRV-long LlamaLend market, proposing a recovery mechanism based on the free market.This mechanism utilizes the option characteristics of the CRV-long treasury assets: when the price of CRV rises, the value of the treasury assets increases, and when the price falls, it does not further depreciate. The proposal suggests establishing a Curve stable pool with a low amplification coefficient (A=2) and a high redemption fee (1%), concentrating the liquidity of the treasury tokens around a repayment capability level of approximately 71%. Arbitrageurs can profit by purchasing treasury tokens through flash loans and conducting partial liquidations.Curve DAO has been invited to approve incentive measures for this pool, and the management fees collected will be retained in the treasury in the form of treasury tokens. If this mechanism is successful, it will serve as a reference solution for similar situations.

The founder of Curve, Michael Egorov, stated on the X platform that the current liquidity scale of the stablecoin crvUSD with mainstream crypto assets (mainly Bitcoin) is already very large. However, this also means that when BTC fluctuates, it may put greater pressure on the crvUSD peg, necessitating thoughts on how to further expand the system's capacity. This situation reminds him of the early days when USDT became the main trading stablecoin in the crypto market:At that time, the brief decoupling of stablecoins was not a structural issue but rather caused by the limited throughput capacity of bank redemption channels. In contrast, crvUSD belongs to the CDP (Collateralized Debt Position) stablecoin model, so it needs to address related pressures from different mechanism levels.Currently, the demand for crvUSD mainly comes from yield-generating scenarios such as Yield Basis, and adjustments will primarily be made from this side in the future. However, as the usage of stablecoins in trading scenarios continues to increase, the scale of stablecoin adoption must expand gradually. This process itself is inevitable.

According to Coingecko data, Curve's stablecoin crvUSD has experienced a slight de-pegging, dropping to a low of 0.9858 USD today, currently reported at 0.9928 USD.

According to Arkham data, at 04:04, 8,923,980.91 CRV (worth approximately $3,238,004) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x8E22...) to Kraken.

According to Arkham monitoring, a certain whale has transferred a total of over 4 million CRV tokens to Binance today. This whale accumulated 5 million CRV tokens at an average price of $0.26 a year ago, which was worth approximately $1.3 million at that time.Just a month after he bought these tokens, CRV rose to a peak of $1.3, at which point his holdings were valued at $6.5 million, with an unrealized profit of over $5.2 million. However, he chose not to sell, and the current price of CRV is about $0.34, meaning if he sold now, he would only make a profit of around $400,000.

The founder of Curve Finance, Michael Egorov, proposed to allocate 17.45 million CRV tokens to Curve development company Swiss Stake AG to support ecosystem development, technology research, and the ongoing development of lending protocols.At current prices, this allocation is worth approximately $6.6 million. Previously, Curve had issued a similar grant to the company at the end of 2024. Egorov stated in a post on the Curve DAO governance forum that the funds will be used for software development, infrastructure, and security construction, and will support the core contribution team of about 25 people at Swiss Stake AG. Planned objectives include: launching and expanding the new lending system Llamalend, developing on-chain foreign exchange functions, and optimizing Curve's user interface and cross-chain capabilities.According to the proposal, the relevant research and development results will be released under an open-source license compatible with the Curve codebase. If the proposal is approved, Swiss Stake AG may stake part of the CRV to earn returns, but it must be strictly used for the purposes outlined in the proposal and commit to disclosing the use of funds every six months. Egorov stated that although Swiss Stake AG has generated some income through Curve Lite deployment and veCRV staking, it still relies on community support overall. This allocation aims to ensure the team's operation and promote the Curve ecosystem towards long-term self-sufficiency.

Curve DAO announced that it has approved increasing the credit line for YieldBasis's crvUSD from $300 million to $1 billion. This credit line is the maximum credit limit but is not allocated immediately; its usage will gradually expand as the liquidity of crvUSD increases.Curve sets the overall credit limit, while YieldBasis must raise the limits for each YB market within that credit line through its own governance voting.

According to Arkham data, at 21:28, 5,567,800 CRV (worth approximately $2.14 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x70C4...) to Coinbase.

According to Arkham data, at 10:08, 8442375.897332218 CRV (worth approximately 3241078.76 USD) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x0202...) to Coinbase.

According to Arkham data, at 09:08, 8.5721 million CRV (worth approximately 3.3171 million USD) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x774E...) to Coinbase.

Yearn tweeted that the recent attack related to yETH did not affect the yCRV product.

The Curve community LlamaRisk has initiated a proposal to "Disable All Elixir Market Gauges." The proposal states that shutting down the gauges of the relevant pools can prevent CRV emission logistics from flowing into the corresponding emission pools.The proposal points out that the DeFi protocol Elixir, which underpins the synthetic stablecoin deUSD (and its staked derivative sdeUSD), officially ceased the issuance and cancellation of these two tokens from November 6 to 7, 2025. The main reason is the collapse of its primary counterparty, Stream Finance.

Curve Finance is seeking community feedback on governance proposal #1252, which proposes to introduce "Emergency DAO" multi-signature permissions for crvUSD and LlamaLend, in order to ensure system security before supporting yieldbasis and Resupply and further scaling.The voting for this proposal will end on November 12. The proposal aims to allow the Emergency DAO to share control over key risk parameters with the Curve DAO, including: lowering the debt ceiling related to crvUSD minting (applicable to YB, Flashminter, etc.); adjusting AMM fees, monetary policy, and liquidity mining callbacks; managing borrowing discounts (non-mandatory liquidation); setting deposit limits for the Vault.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coinmarketcap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows:Top five gainers: MYX Finance (MYX) up 10.5%, current price $3.24; Bittensor (TAO) up 9%, current price $456.73; Zcash (ZEC) up 5.16%, current price $257.1; MemeCore (M) up 2.71%, current price $2.11; Curve DAO Token (CRV) up 2.18%, current price $0.5856.Top five losers: Synthetix (SNX) down 20.22%, current price $1.88; Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) down 11.73%, current price $0.3286; Mantle (MNT) down 7.44%, current price $1.9; Worldcoin (WLD) down 6.17%, current price $0.948; BNB (BNB) down 5.88%, current price $1,203.48.

ChainCatcher message, the related voting page shows that Curve DAO has approved proposal #1206 and it has been executed. This proposal aims to establish a maximum credit limit of 60 million crvUSD for the Yield Basis project.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Robinhood US will list CRV.

ChainCatcher news, Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov announced a proposal on the Curve DAO governance forum, which suggests establishing a protocol called Yield Basis to create three Bitcoin-centric liquidity pools aimed at providing sustainable returns to CRV holders. Holders stake tokens to participate in governance voting and earn veCRV tokens.According to the proposal, Curve will mint $60 million worth of crvUSD stablecoins before the launch of Yield Basis, and the funds will be used to support three Bitcoin-focused liquidity pools: WBTC, cbBTC, and tBTC, with a cap of $10 million for each pool.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, Curve DAO has released proposal #1206 for ownership, intending to establish a maximum credit limit of 60 million crvUSD for the Yield Basis project. The proposal was initiated by address 0x7a16...5428 and plans to adjust the relevant debt ceiling through the set_debt_ceiling function.Voting will start on September 18 and end on September 25.