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Soaring decentralized exchange volume suggests the DeFi craze is not over
Uniswap, the most widely utilized decentralized exchange on Ethereum, has seen explosive growth throughout the second quarter. In fact, less than a month ago, Uniswap’s trading volume surpassed Coinbase Pro as the exchange processed $426 million worth of trades in a 24 hour span. Throughout 2019, the decentralized finance (DeFi) market was relatively stagnant until the concept of yield farming and governance tokens became more popular. Yield farming is a process where investors utilize various DeFi protocols that generate high yield in exchange for providing liquidity. In most cases, the yield comes from the value of the governance token and in addition to staking the DeFi-token, users also deposit cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH). As an example, Yearn.finance (YFI) launched without any premine, unlike many DeFi-related tokens. Instead, users staked crypto assets to farm YFI in its early days, allowing for the decentralized distribution of YFI. The model became widely known and more attractive when Compound and its governance token COMP launched. After COMP’s successful launch the DeFi market saw a significant spike in the emergence of governance tokens. Consequently, many users hoping to either earn lucrative yields reaching as high as 35,000% or purchase the ‘next’ YFI token started to buy and sell governance tokens from decentralized exchanges. Read more...
Cryptonaire Weekly | September 29th 2020
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