Decentralized finance reached a new milestone over the weekend as the Total Value Locked (TVL) in DeFi broke $6 billion for the first time. What’s more, the rate of DeFi growth is reflecting the explosion in interest witnessed over the past few months. One Twitter user, @cryptounfolded, documented the number of days each one billion…
When analysts try and gauge the success of Ethereum’s decentralized finance projects, they often look to the “total value locked” metric. Just today, the metric, up around 1,000% since the start of 2020, surpassed $6 billion for the first time ever. Many Ethereum bulls hailed the achievement of this milestone as a testament to the…
The crypto market has taken a strange turn in recent weeks. What started out as a perfectly sustainable trend of rapidly growing DeFi projects, has turned into a weird world of worthless assets. Rather than new money coming in, as one economist points out, it is crypto insiders who know better that are buying these…
Just minutes ago, the team behind Ethereum DeFi’s Curve Finance protocol made a massive announcement: developers are rolling out the native governance token, CRV. In the project’s Telegram channel, the pinned announcement reads: “The Curve team is proud to announce that Curve Finance native token CRV has officially launched. CRV will reward liquidity providers in…
A mad overnight rally in the Compound (COMP) market resulted in a vast correction this Thursday. The popular decentralized finance token plunged by more than 25 percent from its year-to-date high at $268.63. The massive intraday plunge appeared majorly because of profit-taking behavior among daytraders. The Compound chart on TradingView.com shows COMPUSD plunging 15% in…
Ethereum’s Yam Finance protocol has been the hottest crypto project of the past 24 hours. As reported by NewsBTC previously, the unaudited protocol managed to garner $400 million worth of value in under 24 hours, with investors throwing boatloads of capital at the project. The token of the protocol, YAM, is behind this exponential explosion…
COMP, the native token of Ethereum-based lending platform Compound, blasted through the roof on increasing bids for decentralized finance (DeFi) assets. The latest wave of buying sentiment in the DeFi market followed the launch of Yam Finance. The so-called “yield farming” project surfaced with the promise of offering an elastic supply crypto-asset called YAM as…
It’s been a tough past few days for the crypto market. Bitcoin and Ethereum are both down by approximately 5% in the past 24 hours, plunging as gold and the U.S. equities market drop in a fashion not seen in many weeks. There are some cryptocurrencies that are holding strong, though. One of these is…
Compound (COMP) has been embroiled in a strong uptrend over the past day as decentralized finance continues to gain steam. According to Coin Market Cap data, the cryptocurrency has gained 15% against the U.S. dollar in the past 24 hours. For context, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have both gained approximately 2.5% over that same time…
Multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) focused cryptocurrencies have seen parabolic performances in the past few days. This comes in spite of the fact that Bitcoin finally broke out on Monday morning, surging from the $11,700 it was holding at to $12,100 in a rapid rally. Analysts expect this interest in coins like Band Protocol (BAND), Balancer…