The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance has slid 15.63% since the metric’s all-time high of $275 billion sixteen days ago on December 1. Since the end of the first week of December, the TVL is down 7.19% lower with a number of protocols seeing seven-day losses in terms of TVL.
Defi YFI and CVX tokens show double-digit gains over 7 days, total stuck in challenge slips by nearly 3% at $ 243 billion
According to statistics, decentralized finance (challenge) tokens represent $ 132.6 billion, or about 5.79% of the entire crypto economy of $ 2.28 trillion. The biggest challenge token in terms of market capitalization is terra (LUNA), which dominates 18% and a market valuation of around $ 23.9 billion. The two top performing challenge assets over the past week were Annual Finance (YFI) and Convex Finance (CVX). Annual finance jumped 33% in value last week and convex finance increased in value by 26.3%.
Meanwhile, the defi tokens tokemak (TOKE) and bonfida (FIDA) saw the deepest weekly losses last week. Tokemak lost 31.6% in value last week and bonfida shed 28.7% in USD value. The top decentralized exchange (dex) on Friday is Uniswap version 3 with $2 billion in 24-hour volume. Uniswap (v3) is followed by Pancakeswap, Trader Joe, Biswap, Sushiswap, Uniswap (v2), Raydium2, and Curve Finance, respectively.
There were $ 6.2 billion in 24-hour dex trade volume and 158,035,713 monthly visits to the dex protocols. According to defillama.com, the Total Total Locked Value (TVL) on a myriad of blockchains is $ 232 billion with Curve dominance at 9.17%. Curve’s TVL is $ 21.28 billion and it supports seven different blockchains.
Ethereum Still Dominates the Defi Landscape, Solana Transactions at 45 Billion, Cross-Chain Bridge TVL Slides 3.4% Last Month
Out of all the recorded defi blockchains, Ethereum commands $159.64 billion TVL in defi today which equates to 65.44% of the aggregated defi TVL. Binance smart chain (BSC) is the second-largest blockchain in terms of TVL in defi today. BSC has a $16.53 billion TVL on Friday which is roughly 6.77% of the $243.94 billion locked in defi. The chains that follow BSC include Terra, Solana, Avalanche, Tron, Polygon, and Fantom, respectively. Out of all the chains this past week, the only top-ten defi chains that gained a higher TVL percentage were Fantom (3.52%) and BSC (1.75%).
Coin98 Analytics Statistics indicate that in terms of total transactions for blockchain networks, Solana holds the reins with 45 billion. The dominance of Solana transactions is followed by Tron (2.68B), BSC (2.09B), Ethereum (1.39B), Polygon (1.19B), HECO (534M) and Algorand (464M). When it comes to the number of validators on popular blockchains, Coin98 Analytics metrics Pin up Ethereum has 270,322 validators, while Elrond has 3,222.
Lastly, as far as the TVL in cross-chain bridges is concerned, there’s $22.73 billion in cross-chain bridge TVL today. There’s been a 3.4% loss in TVL during the last 30 days and Ronin Bridge commands the top position with $6.4 billion. Ronin is followed by Avalanche ($5.88B), Polygon ($5.83B), Arbitrum ($2.3B), Fantom ($1.3B), and Optimism ($433M).
