A Lesson from Vauld Exchange Crisis

Vauld is one of the crypto lending platforms which came to the limelight last year with its innovative way to attract customers and give lucrative interest on crypto stakes. A few days back it halted its operations, so now the investors are not able to make deposits, withdraw or trade-in Vauld exchange. According to a statement from the change, they said that this is because of the volatile market conditions.

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Exactly one year before Vauld got around $25 million in funding and they have used this fund extensively to grow its asses as well as the team. But with the macroeconomic downtrends as well as with crypto winter and luna collapse, the users have started withdrawing the funds. With this, the exchange has limited or no money to pay to the users and thus they have even laid off some of the staff to save money. Since nothing worked then they stopped the operation altogether.

Vauld heavily depends upon yield farming like arbitrage and thus with new tax rules and other things this has gone down significantly thus since the yield farming opportunities slumped drastically they have to stop everything. The only good thing we have seen till now is that the Nexo Exchange is all set to buy Vauld and thus might help the users to give their money which is stuck.

Now in the last 1 year, I have seen any financial influencers promoting the Vauld exchange saying it can be used as a Crypto FD and other things. The problem is with these financial influencers backing some exchange has given some risk-free image to the Crypto exchange and thus the users are mostly affected because of that.

Lessons From Vauld Crisis

1. DYOR (Do Your Own Research) - If the influencers are pitching for something does not mean it is the best out there or it is risk-free or something. It's always DYPR before investing in anything. These influencers just have to create content for their money, they might or might not have invested in anything which they are promoting.
2. Keep as little as possible in Exchanges and put most of the Crypto assets in Hard Wallet preferably Ledger or similar things. Note to me - Buy a ledger as soon as possible.
3. Crypto is volatile, so invest that much only which you expect to lose. Do not put all your life savings in Crypto if you cannot afford to lose everything.
4. Distribute some of the crypto holdings in some of the good exchanges rather than keeping them in small exchanges because good exchanges can sustain the Crypto Winter.

What do you think can be some of the other lessons from the Vauld Exchange crisis.

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