DeFi

The recent ezETH depeg is a good reminder that LRTs can depeg if withdrawals are not enabled. This is the same risk that was present for LSTs before withdrawals were enabled after the merge.

Be sure to evaluate the oracles in use if you're going to use leverage

The recent ezETH depeg is a good reminder that LRTs can depeg if withdrawals are not enabled. This is the same risk that was present for LSTs before withdrawals were enabled after the merge.

Be sure to evaluate the oracles in use if you're going to use leverage

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Afaik, Etherfi is the only LST protocol that allows withdrawals.

The ezETH isn't the first time an LST has depegged either. pufETH depegged earlier this year, but the lack of available leverage prevented the same scenario we saw this week with ezETH.

Mind the peg and plan accordingly when deploying funds.

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Having redemptions enabled allows for arbitrage where bots can buy an LST/LRT below peg and redeem it for it's 1:1 value. This is why stETH hasn't depegged by more than 0.5% since withdrawals were enabled. 

Yes, low liquidity vs. high rates of ezETH integrations in lending markets was a contributing factor, no doubt.

Did you find any info about liquidations? 

It seems that ezETH points + lots of DeFi integrations created: 
- high leverage, using it as collateral 
- shallow liquidity on too many DEXes with points/multipliers

So redemptions probably wouldn’t have helped in short-term.