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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Is a “Crypto Crackdown” Good, Bad, or Both? - Kitco NEWS

Around the world, crypto-haters are cackling euphorically. Over the past few weeks, a number of dodgy crypto schemes have unraveled, potentially giving them the ammunition needed to conduct a much-anticipated “crypto crackdown”.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. As we will show today, things had gotten fairly out of control in the “CeFi” (centralized finance) world. Many crypto investors were deceived by schemes such as “high-yield stablecoin lending”. These platforms sounded relatively safe, but it turns out that nearly all of their claims were too good to be true.
Exhibit A is Terra-Luna, the ~$50 billion trainwreck we covered a few weeks ago. Both retail investors and professionals were caught unaware by its sudden collapse.
Many of the problems with Terra-Luna were focused on Anchor Protocol. On Anchor, you could stake/lend your crypto assets and earn up to 20% yields. Here’s how Terra-Luna described Anchor Protocol on its “Ecosystem” page, where the platform was featured...



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