Solana-based Everlend shutters operations amid shrinking lending market

Decentralized concern (DeFi) lender Everlend Finance unopen down its operations connected Feb. 1, citing the liquidity crunch successful the lending market.

The Solana-based protocol said that it decided to adjacent its level contempt having “enough runway.” Stating that the lending marketplace is continuing to shrink, Everlend said forging up amid the existent situation would beryllium a “gamble,” though it considers itself to beryllium an “excellent product.”

The exertion is present moving successful withdrawal-only mode and volition proceed to relation until each funds are afloat withdrawn, according to the announcement.  The protocol urged users to retreat each assets connected the level astatine the earliest.

Everlend said that it would instrumentality each raised and unused funds implicit the adjacent 2 weeks. The level had received backing from investors, including Serum, Everstake Capital, and GSR. The lender volition besides wide payments to third-party contractors successful the adjacent mates of weeks.

The Everlend squad has decided to marque its codification open-source truthful developers tin utilize it to proceed gathering connected its exertion stack.

At its highest successful June 2022, the full worth locked (TVL) successful Everlend reached $400,000, according to DeFiLlama data. But Everlend’s TVL fell to astir $80,000 successful November pursuing the FTX debacle, which caused accelerated outflow from the Solana ecosystem. At the clip of writing, Everlend had $45,620 successful TVL.

Everlend is the latest Solana-based DeFi level to capitulate. DeFi output level Friktion shut down past month, citing the turmoil successful the crypto ecosystem.

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