DeFi
What is total value locked (TVL) in crypto and why does it matter?
In 2022, Ethereum appeared as the largest network by DeFi TVL, accounting for over half of the total DeFi volume worldwide. To give some perspective, the Ethereum DeFi network includes just under 500 protocols. It has a TVL of approximately $73 billion, with 64% of the market share, compared with BNB Smart Chain, which is the second-highest TVL at $8.74 billion in value at 7.7% of the market share, Avalanche with $5.21 billion and 4.5% of the market share and Solana with $4.19 billion and 3.68% of the market share. It’s very easy to read a TVL crypto chart. It represents the TVL for the entire DeFi market is expressed in USD, with the percentage of movement in the last 24 hours and the crypto with higher dominance. The total value locked metric across all chains clearly indicates...
What is total value locked (TVL) in crypto and why does it matter?
In 2022, Ethereum appeared as the largest network by DeFi TVL, accounting for over half of the total DeFi volume worldwide. To give some perspective, the Ethereum DeFi network includes just under 500 protocols. It has a TVL of approximately $73 billion, with 64% of the market share, compared with BNB Smart Chain, which is the second-highest TVL at $8.74 billion in value at 7.7% of the market share, Avalanche with $5.21 billion and 4.5% of the market share and Solana with $4.19 billion and 3.68% of the market share. It’s very easy to read a TVL crypto chart. It represents the TVL for the entire DeFi market is expressed in USD, with the percentage of movement in the last 24 hours and the crypto with higher dominance. The total value locked metric across all chains clearly indicates...
German BaFin official calls for ‘innovative’ EU-wide DeFi regulation
Birgit Rodolphe, an executive director at Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has called for innovative and uniform regulation of the decentralized finance (DeFi) space throughout the European Union (EU). BaFin is Germany’s financial regulatory body responsible for regulating banks, insurance firms, and financial institutions including cryptocurrency companies. BaFin is the issuer of “crypto custody licenses,” a permit required for firms wanting to offer cryptocurrency services within Germany. In an article on BaFin’s website Rodolphe warned of the risks to consumers of the unregulated DeFi space and called for standardized regulatory considerations across EU member countries. Birgit Rodolphe, Executive Director Processing and Prevention of Money Laundering at B...
Interview: Computecoin raises $6.2M to power Web3 infrastructure
ComputeCoin have annouced that the company has secured $6.2 million in strategic funds, led by Aves Lair. The network provides decentralised infrastructure for Web3. This is interesting because despite decentralisation being one of the core aspects of Web3, the reality is that a lot of Web3 applications are still deployed on Web 2.0 infrastructure. This creates central points of failure, as well as being converse to one of the mantras of Web3. AWS is an example of one such company that drives a huge amount of the Web3 network. With ComputeCoin, who only came together in 2018, aiming to “make global, distributed computing and storage power widely available for all Web3 builders to easily use”, we sat down with Dr Max Li, the Co-Founder and CEO, to get some answers to questions w...
Compound Treasury receives B- credit rating from S&P Global Ratings
On Monday, decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol Compound Treasury announced that it received a credit rating of B- from S&P Global Ratings. As told by the team at Compound, this represents the first time a major credit agency has issued a rating for an institutionalized DeFi protocol. The S&P Global Ratings’ investment suitability scale ranges from AAA (extremely strong) to D (in default). A score of B- indicates the issuer can meet financial commitments, though vulnerabilities to business, financial and economic conditions persist. Regarding Compound’s rating specifically, S&P Global cites the uncertain regulatory regime for stablecoins such as USD Coin (USDC), stablecoin-to-fiat convertibility risks and the Treasury’s “limited capital base...
Anchor Protocol rebounds sharply after falling 70% in just two months — what’s next for ANC?
Anchor Protocol (ANC) returned to its bullish form this May after plunging by over 70% in the previous two months. Pullback risks ahead ANC’s price rebounded by a little over 42.50% between May 1 and May 6, reaching $2.26, its highest level in three weeks. Nonetheless, the token experienced a selloff on May 6 and May 7 after ramming into what appears to be a resistance confluence. That consists of a 50-day exponential moving average (50-day EMA; the red wave) and 0.786 Fib line of the Fibonacci retracement graph, drawn from the $1.32-swing low to the $5.82-swing high, as shown in the chart below. ANC/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView A continued pullback move could see ANC’s price plunging towards its rising trendline support, coinciding with the floor near&...
Avalanche (AVAX) loses 30%+ in April, but its DeFi footprint leaves room to be bullish
Avalanche (AVAX) price is down more than 30% in April, but despite the negative price move, the smart contract platform remains a top contender for decentralized applications due to its scalability, low-cost transactions and its large footprint in the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape. AVAX token/USD at FTX. Source: TradingView The network is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and unique in that it does not face the same operational bottlenecks of high transaction fees and network congestion. Avalanche was able to amass over $9 billion in total value locked (TVL) by offering a proof-of-stake (PoS) layer-1 scaling solution. This indicator is extremely relevant because it measures the deposits on the network’s smart contracts. For instance, the BNB Chain, running since S...
Cake DeFi introduces a new feature “Borrow” to allow users to borrow DUSD
Cake DeFi, a leading Singapore-based fintech decentralized finance (DeFi) platform has announced the launch of its new product called “Borrow.” Borrow shall allow users to borrow Decentralized USD (DUSD) using Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Tether (USDT), and DFI as collateral. The “Borrow” feature gives users a better option of investing in crypto rather than just HODLing. The new product shall allow users the novel opportunity of increasing their crypto portfolios and potentially also boost their DeFi earnings. The Co-founder and CEO of Cake DeFi, Dr. Julian Hosp, said: “We are excited to launch Borrow to provide users with more liquidity to invest in DeFi services while holding on to their assets. DeFi empowers people to generate passive income on their cryptocurrencies wi...
Ethereum on-chain data hints at further downside for ETH price
Analyzing Ether’s (ETH) current price chart paints a bearish picture, which is largely justified by the 11% drop over the past month, but other traditional finance assets faced more extreme price corrections in the same period. The Invesco China Technology ETF (CQQ) is down 31% and the Russell 2000 declined by 8%. Ether price at FTX, in USD. Source: TradingView Currently, traders fear that losing the descending channel support at $2,850 could lead to a stronger price downturn, but this largely depends on how derivatives traders are positioned along with the Ethereum network’s on-chain metrics. According to Defi Llama, the Ethereum network’s total value locked (TVL) flattened in the last 30 days at 27 million Ether. TVL measures the number of coins deposited on smart contr...
Fireblocks expands institutional access to Terra’s DeFi ecosystem
Fireblocks, a digital asset custody platform, announced that it has enabled institutional DeFi access to Terra (LUNA), the second-largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol by total value locked (TVL). As per the announcement, Fireblocks users can now securely access all the decentralized applications (DApps) built on the Terra blockchain. The launch is in response to Fireblocks’ Early Access Program users, who invested over $250 million into the Terra DeFi ecosystem within the first 72 hours of its integration going live. According to Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, institutional demand for DeFi is only continuing to grow, adding that: “As their appetite expands, so will their desire to be able to access all of the latest and greatest innovations across different blockchain e...
DeFi token AAVE eyes 40% rally in May but ‘bull trap’ risks remain
A sharp rebound move witnessed in the Aave (AAVE) market in the last three days has raised its potential to rise further in May, a technical indicator suggests. AAVE price rebounds from key support Dubbed a “rising wedge,” the pattern appears when the price rises inside a range defined by two ascending, contracting trendlines. It typically resolves after the price breaks below the lower trendline with convincingly rising volumes. AAVE has been painting a similar ascending channel since early February 2022. The AAVE/USD pair has bounced in the past few days after testing the wedge’s lower trendline as support. This means the bulls are now eyeing the pattern’s upper trendline near $280, up over 40% from April 20’s price. AAVE/USD daily price chart. Sou...
The integration of CeFi and DeFi through Binance Bridge 2.0
DeFi is driving the development of cutting-edge Web3 use cases such as nonfungible tokens (NFTs), gaming and the metaverse. With the Binance Bridge 2.0, DeFi can be brought to a broader audience worldwide while maintaining the same smooth user experience as CeFi. Most of the “DeFi” ecosystem relies on centralized services because of convenience, which enables us to understand where the traditional world of centralized banking and the new world of decentralized money might intersect to everyone’s benefit. Binance, with its first bridge, made it possible to bridge assets listed on Binance.com to other blockchains. To integrate CeFi and DeFi, the Binance Bridge 2.0 comes to the rescue by allowing you to wrap ERC20 tokens to BEP20 BTokens and start staking your Ethere...
