DeFi Pulse denies claims it overestimates the total USD value locked in DeFi by $2.83 billion. The total USD value locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols recently surpassed the $6 billion mark according to onchain data resource, DeFi Pulse.
Currently, the figure rests at $6.32 billion, after rising nearly six-fold since it reached the $1 billion mark less than three months ago. The exponential growth seen this year can largely be attributed to the advent of yield farming and the release of Compound protocol.
However, Encode Club founder Damir Bandalo, claims that this figure is somewhat inflated. Instead of $6.32 billion, Bandolo says $3.5 billion is a better estimate of the real value locked in the top 15 DeFi protocols.
While the numbers shown by various DeFi data resources may be somewhat ballooned, this is something that also happens in traditional finance as one Twitter user noted.
The total value locked in DeFi protocols can be hard to calculate as one dollar can create its value multiple times over in locked value. For example, a user can lock Ether (ETH) in MakerDAO to create DAI, a decentralized USD-based stablecoin.
A user can then lock that same DAI in another protocol, and the duplications don’t end there as different protocols permit different lending, borrowing and duplication practices.
However, DeFi Pulse co-founder defended the calculations on the site in a Twitter thread and said considerable efforts are made to ensure their accuracy. He pointed out Bandalo had made errors of his own.
“We work really hard to remove double counted assets from @defipulse exactly to avoid this problem. The TVL only passed $6B today, for the first time ever, and has never sniffed "$6.7B." If you find one we missed, please let us know.”
Only around 3.85% of Ether and 0.18% of Bitcoin (BTC) is locked in DeFi, meaning that there is still a lot of room for growth. Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) is the most popular form of tokenized Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain and about 50% of it’s $274 million market cap is locked in Compound. RenBTC, a decentralized version of wBTC is also beginning to gain traction as a gateway to DeFi.
Ether remains the most popular cryptocurrency in the DeFi ecosystem, accounting for 50% of value locked, while BTC accounts for only 10%. Stablecoins account for 33% of total value locked and the rest is made up of other ERC-20 tokens like Basic Attention Token (BAT), Augur (REP), and others.
Regardless of the total USD value locked in the DeFi ecosystem, there is clearly plenty of room for growth. It’s likely that the value locked figure will continue to increase as yield farming and other forms of lending gain traction.
While many believe DeFi is the future of finance, the nascent sector still has major security issues to contend with and it must do so while dealing with what seems to be an hyped up market reminiscent of the 2018 ICO hype. This leads to poorly planned and rushed projects like Yam Finance which was launched without an adequate audit.
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1 | BTC | Bitcoin predictions | 76.8% | 42 | $70 181.59 | -0.59% | 9.12% | $1 380 285 312 968 | ||
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2 | ETH | Ethereum predictions | 76% | 50 | $3 549.53 | -0.77% | 4.33% | $426 194 485 316 | ||
3 | USDT | Tether predictions | 91.6% | 1 | $1.000206 | 0.07% | -0.01% | $104 525 818 800 | ||
4 | BNB | Binance Coin predictions | 63.6% | 80 | $615.62 | 4.81% | 8.81% | $92 057 057 069 | ||
5 | SOL | Solana predictions | 61.2% | 88 | $185.71 | 0.24% | 7.54% | $82 530 358 500 | ||
6 | XRP | XRP predictions | 84% | 28 | $0.629847 | 1.42% | 2.16% | $34 568 671 339 | ||
7 | USDC | USD Coin predictions | 92% | 2 | $1.000077 | 0% | 0% | $32 492 648 969 | ||
8 | DOGE | Dogecoin predictions | 70% | 66 | $0.213858 | -1.24% | 37.38% | $30 723 668 610 | ||
9 | ADA | Cardano predictions | 67.6% | 66 | $0.652274 | 0.14% | 5.07% | $23 210 538 187 | ||
10 | AVAX | Avalanche predictions | 60.4% | 87 | $53.79 | -0.95% | -1.78% | $20 299 633 012 | ||
11 | SHIB | SHIBA INU predictions | 54.8% | 94 | $0.000031 | -4.56% | 14.80% | $18 193 408 608 | ||
12 | TON | Toncoin predictions | 60.4% | 86 | $4.91 | -0.70% | 14.73% | $17 036 072 542 | ||
13 | DOT | Polkadot predictions | 73.6% | 49 | $9.56 | -0.09% | 5.57% | $13 642 215 721 | ||
14 | BCH | Bitcoin Cash predictions | 72.4% | 57 | $634.20 | 10.67% | 56.80% | $12 482 514 661 | ||
15 | LINK | Chainlink predictions | 80% | 42 | $18.96 | -3.16% | 5.47% | $11 130 742 548 |
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