Despite $4B worth of BTC and ETH being locked in DeFi over the past five months, the two top coins still account for less than half of the sector's TVL. 155 Total views.
The recent explosive growth of decentralized finance has seen the sector lock nearly $4 billion worth of Bitcoin and Ether in less than five months.
According to DeFi Pulse, the number of Ether locked up in DeFi protocols increased 218.5% since June, growing from 2.7 million ETH to 8.6 million ETH. Locked Bitcoin has grown more than 3,000%, from 5,000 BTC mid year, to roughly 158,800 BTC today.
On October 14, crypto asset exchange and investment platform CoinList set a new record for the largest sum of Bitcoin tokenized by a single entity in one day using the Wrapped Bitcoin protocol.
CoinList minted 4,997 WBTC, or $57.1 million worth of Bitcoin, on behalf of its clients for use on the Ethereum network.
The value of Ether locked in DeFi is $3.24 billion, or 7.6% of Ethereum's total market cap.
The total amount of BTC locked is $1.81 billion, or 0.85% of Bitcoin's market cap.
Despite the huge sums of BTC and ETH recently absorbed by DeFi, locked Bitcoin and Ether currently represents less than half of the total value locked in the sector - together comprising 44.6% of the sector's $11.33 billion.
DeFi Pulse does not provide data on what percentage share of DeFi's TVL that other specific crypto assets like SNX, COMP or DAI represent.
Bitcoin and Ether now account for 44% of the value locked in DeFi
pubblicato su Oct 15, 2020
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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