It appears that stablecoins used for leverage usually have higher trading volumes in times of volatility. Utilization of crvUSD stablecoin pools is now around 100%.
@ethena_labs USDe and sUSDe are also associated with leverage, so sUSDe/crvUSD pool has even higher utilization
Someone just borrowed 2M on http://crvusd.curve.fi. But the borrower could have saved on borrow rate (10% vs 18%) if used http://lend.curve.fi this time
Noticed that the previously dormant address of the hacker from July 2023, almost a year later, started mixing funds (mostly with WETH) [e.g. https://t.co/a3P4CB53XH]. While Curve Finance reimbursed users in December 2023, catching the hacker with those funds is still very desirable.
The possibility of doing so has become more viable now, as moving funds are easier to track than when they are static.
Furthermore, over this year, much has been done to refactor Curve Finance's fee conversion infrastructure and pool factories. The Vyper language also improved considerably, with every new version being deeply audited (not without our help to make that possible).
We are very confident that both Curve and Vyper are safer today than ever before!