Fantom Surpasses Binance Smart Chain as the Third-Largest Defi Blockchain – Defi Bitcoin News

The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) protocols has lost ​​6.8% during the last 24 hours as crypto markets have experienced more losses. Fantom’s TVL has increased by 46.62% during the week. Fantom managed to take Binance Smart Chain’s (BSC) share down one notch and now has the third-largest defi market share.

Fantom’s Total Value Locked in Decentralized Finance Jumps 46% in 7 Days

Fantom, a defi and smart-chain blockchain project, has officially overtaken BSC this week in terms TVL in defi protocols. Fantom’s current holdings of $11.73Billion were updated on January 24, 2022. This is an increase by 46.62% within seven days.

While year-to-date, Fantom’s native token fantom (FTM) is up 4,671.7% against the U.S. dollar, over the last two weeks, FTM has lost 18.6%. Today, there’s $1.6 billion in FTM trade volume and the project has a market valuation of around $4.9 billion.

Out of the $1.6 trillion crypto economy, the defi token fantom’s (FTM) overall valuation represents 0.31% of the aggregate. Fantom, which is below Tron, and above Stellar, is 13th in the list of $510 billion smart contracts platforms.

Tether (USDT) captures 84.26% of today’s FTM trades, followed by BUSD with 5.8% of FTM pairs. US dollar controls 5.15% FTM swaps, while bitcoin (BTC), has about 3.25%. TRY has around 0.7% of FTM swaps.

While fantom (FTM) is widely traded on decentralized exchange (dex) applications, the top centralized exchange offering FTM is Binance’s 48.96% share followed by Okex with 20.81%. Okex, Digifinex, Kucoin and Hitbtc are the top three most active fantom centralized exchanges.

Fantom’s $11.73 billion TVL in defi is just above BSC’s $11.36 billion TVL. Above Fantom is Terra’s TVL in defi today with $15.75 billion, but Terra’s TVL has slid by 17.51% this week. BSC has lost 19.73% in the past week, and saw around 4.36% TVL depart in the last 24hrs.

The largest defi protocol on Fantom is Multichain with a dominance of 59.79% of Fantom’s $11.73 billion. Multichain’s $7.02 billion TVL is followed by 0xDAO ($3.94B), and Spookyswap ($957.16M). These three protocols command the lion’s share of Fantom’s total value locked in defi.

Fantom holds the record for cross-chain bridge TVL with $5.2 Billion locked. Fantom’s cross-chain bridge TVL has increased by 149% in the past seven days.

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