Yield platform Stablegains sued for promoting UST: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.

The backlash from the Terra implosion still haunts the crypto world, with the now-shuttered stablecoin yield platform Stablegains being sued for customer losses. The plaintiffs allege that the platform funnelled customer funds into Anchor Protocol without users’ knowledge or consent.

Platypus, the DeFi protocol that was exploited for over $8 million, is working on a compensation plan to recover some of the funds.

Florida’s Cogent Bank is proposing a $100 million participation in loans to MakerDAO’s RWA Master Participation Trust.

Bridge protocols were the primary target of exploits last year, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stolen funds. Trustless bridges can mitigate the issue, enabling cross-chain transfers without needing a centralized custodian, potentially making it a safer option for interoperability.

After nearly four weeks of a bullish run, the DeFi market is fighting a brave battle against the bears. There were minor price drops, and the market’s overall slightly declined as bears had the upper hand toward the end of the week.

DeFi yield platform Stablegains is being sued in a Californian court for allegedly misleading investors and failing to comply with securities laws.

On Feb. 18, the plaintiffs, Alec and Artin Ohanian, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that the shuttered DeFi platform diverted all its customer funds to the Anchor Protocol without their knowledge or consent. Anchor Protocol offered up to 20% yields on Terraform Labs’ algorithmic