{"id":89628,"date":"2020-10-15T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitcoin-and-ether-now-account-for-44-of-the-value-locked-in-defi\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:52:51","slug":"bitcoin-and-ether-now-account-for-44-of-the-value-locked-in-defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-and-ether-now-account-for-44-of-the-value-locked-in-defi\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bitcoin and Ether now account for 44% of the value locked in DeFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bitcoin and Ether now account for 44% of the value locked in DeFi <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">The recent explosive growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen the sector lock nearly $4 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) in less than five months.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defipulse.com\/\">DeFi Pulse<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/dfdcb3ca-6fde-4691-98d2-90d7693d369d.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>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 Wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed 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.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/c796686d-5e37-4b2f-8d68-5f33ae2b52ba.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The value of Ether locked in DeFi is $3.24 billion, or 7.6% of Ethereum&#8217;s total market cap. The total amount of BTC locked is $1.81 billion, or 0.85% of Bitcoin&#8217;s market cap.<\/p>\n<p>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 (TVL) in the sector \u2014 together comprising 44.6% of the sector\u2019s $11.33 billion.<\/p>\n<p>DeFi Pulse does not provide data on what percentage share of DeFi\u2019s TVL that other specific crypto assets like SNX, COMP or DAI represent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-and-ether-now-account-for-44-of-the-value-locked-in-defi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Bitcoin and Ether now account for 44% of the value locked in DeFi &#8221; The recent explosive growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen the sector lock nearly $4 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) in less than five months. According to DeFi Pulse, the number of Ether locked up in DeFi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/7f356ab1-ba3a-4a82-b2ab-6c802856baca.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74868,74891],"class_list":["post-89628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-defi","tag-ethereum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}