The DeFi space rose to incredible heights all throughout 2020 but could have come to a roaring peak over the summer months. Assets like Yearn.Finance (YFI), Uniswap (UNI), or Aave (LEND) are all on the ropes, and related Ethereum-based decentralized finance tokens have fallen 60% across the board. But despite the drawdown already, one sharp-eyed…
Timing when to buy in crypto or any market is a difficult task. Eager DeFi investors learned this the hard way if they rushed to buy Yearn.Finance (YFI) the moment it was listed on Coinbase. From that moment on, its been almost nothing but downside since, leaving anyone who bought that “top” with a $25K…
The Ethereum decentralized finance market has undergone a strong rejection over recent weeks. Leading DeFi coins are down 30-80% since the highs they posted in mid August or early September. One analysis by a noted crypto analyst shows that the average DeFi coin, including Ethereum, is down 60.5% since their local highs. Even the best-performer,…
The Ethereum wallet interface and browser extension MetaMask has recently achieved a milestone 1 million monthly active users, highlighting the enormous adoption underway. The rise runs in parallel with the DeFi trend, capped off recently by the explosion in users rushing to claim new Uniswap tokens. Here’s how all these different projects and applications are…
Ethereum is the top dog when it comes to DeFi. Other decentralized finance tokens are built on its blockchain and require ETH gas fees to transact. This also could be why the top-ranked altcoin is held up a lot better than the rest of the DeFi space, which has fallen on average 60% across the…
Yearn.finance (YFI) has faced a strong rejection in the past 24 hours. The leading cryptocurrency, based on Ethereum, has shed 17% in the past 24 hours. This makes it the worst performer in the top 100 cryptocurrencies, strongly underperforming Bitcoin’s 0.5% gain in the past 24 hours. The strong drop in the decentralized finance-focused coin…
Leading decentralized finance (DeFi) coin LEND, the native token of the Aave protocol, is up 5% in the past 24 hours. Its performance comes as the prices of both Bitcoin and Ethereum have stagnated. LEND’s outperformance seems to stem from a crucial technical change to the Aave protocol and the cryptocurrency itself. This technical change…
Tron (TRX) has surged 10% in the past 24 hours, defying a stagnation in the price of both Bitcoin and Ethereum around local lows. For context, BTC and ETH have both gained around 1% in the past day. TRX’s rally comes as the blockchain has been seeing an ongoing pivot to offer decentralized finance (DeFi)…
It’s been a tough past few days for the entire crypto market. Synthetix Network Token (SNX), in particular, has dropped rather hard: the coin is down 5% in the past 24 hours alone and nearly 20% below the local highs. Despite the drop and widespread range trading seen over the past month, investors are bullish.…
Yearn.Finance (YFI) has stolen the attention away from most other DeFi tokens, Ethereum, and Bitcoin thanks to an amazing run where tens of thousands per coin in value were added. But the Ethereum-based ERC20 token has recently broken below and is now retesting the neckline of a massive head and shoulders pattern. If the altcoin…