Decentralized Finance Protocols Flounder As Value Locked In Defi Shed More Than 25% Since FTX Collapse – Defi Bitcoin News

by James · December 12, 2022

As of December 12, 2022, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has been capped after falling 25.5% from $55.94 billion on November 5 to today’s $41.67 billion. Over the past 12 months, TVL in defi has also dropped 82.56% from approximately $239 billion in December 2021, to today’s aggregate.

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Smart Contract Token Economy and Defi Sector Battle After Last Month’s FTX Fiasco

Decentralized finance (defi) has suffered greatly from the FTX fiasco as total value locked (TVL) in defi has lost 25.5% in value in 37 days. At the time of writing, TVL in defi today is an estimated $41.67 billion, and TVL has fallen 1.63% in the last 24 hours.

The defi protocol Makerdao commands the largest TVL today with $6.26 billion in value locked, and a dominance rating of 15.02% against the rest of the defi protocols’ TVL standings. Defillama.com calculations indicate that Makerdao’s TVL over the past month shrank by 8.41%.

Decentralized Finance Protocols Flounder As Value Locked In Defi Shed More Than 25% Since FTX Collapse — TVL in defi today on December 12, 2022 is $41.67B and the value locked 37 days ago was around $55.94B or 25.5% higher.

After Makerdao, the best defi protocols in terms of TVL size include Lido, Aave, Curve, Uniswap, Convex Finance, Justlend, Pancakeswap, Compound Finance and Instadapp respectively. Out of the entire top ten, Aave suffered the biggest monthly loss after it fell 15.18% in value in 30 days.

On the other hand, Convex Finance’s TVL metrics increased by 43.87% over the past month. Ethereum has the most value locked out of all the blockchains with $23.98 billion or 57.55% of the total locked in defi today.

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has the second largest TVL as of December 12, with an estimated $4.99 billion or 12.04% of the total. In terms of TVL size, Ethereum and BSC are followed by blockchain networks Tron, Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom, Cronos and Solana.

The total seven-day volume, across all bridges across chains on December 12, is an estimated $810.67 million. The smart contract platform’s entire token economy is currently $261 billion, down 2.3% in the last 24 hours.

In the last 62 days or since October 11, 2022, the smart contract platform token economy has decreased 7.77% against the US dollar from $283 billion to today’s $261 billion. At the time of writing, the largest smart contract crypto asset, ethereum (ETH), is down 1.6% against the dollar in the last 24 hours.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news editor at Bitcoin.com News and a financial technology journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.