Borrowing and Lending Service Solend is Going Back to the Ballot Box

DeFi protocol of Solana Solend is holding a quick vote to determine whether Sunday’s “emergency powers” plan to seize control of the platform’s most extensive account, a $100 million+ whale on the cusp of a possibly disastrous on-chain liquidation, should be invalidated. Solend Cryptocurrency Lending and Borrowing Platform Solend, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform for tokens like SOL and USDC, is letting its governance token holders vote on the proposal for six hours. If you vote “yes” on SLND2, you will: 1. Invalidate the first vote; 2. Extend voting periods to one day’s length; 3. Begin work on a new, less drastic “emergency powers”-free solution to the whale wallet crisis. Co-founder Rooter said in a blog post, “We recognize that a voting time of 1 day is still short,” further he added, “but we need to act swiftly to address the systemic risk and the fact that normal users can’t withdraw USDC. We ask our community to participate in governance in the next few days. Will revisit the voting time in a future proposal.” Liquidation Crisis The anonymous wallet at the center of the crisis has deposited 95% of Solend’s SOL pool and accounted for 88% of USDC borrows. However, with SOL’s plummeting price, Solend’s single-largest user came perilously near a giant margin call. If SOL reaches $22.30, the protocol will automatically liquidate up to 20% of the whale’s collateral. Protocol engineers were concerned that multi-...