5 Best DeFi Tokens To Watch Out This Week

DeFi tokens are a collection of cryptocurrencies that are native to automated, decentralized platforms that use smart contracts. Decentralized finance is the term used to describe initiatives that seek to offer conventional financial services—like loans, savings accounts, and asset exchanges without the aid of a middleman.

Here are 5 Best Defi Tokens To Watch Out This Week

1. Uniswap
2. Chainlink
3. Tezos
4. Avalanche
5. Curve DAO Token

1. Uniswap

One of the most widely used decentralized trading protocols, Uniswap (UNI), is a market leader in the area thanks to its total-value-locked (TVL). It gained enormous traction in the cryptocurrency community for developing the automated market maker (AMM) system to enable automated trading of Defi tokens without a centralized middleman. The Uniswap ecosystem was created with the goal of keeping token trading fully automated and accessible to anyone who owns tokens.

Uniswap’s price at the time of writing is $6.56, with a market capitalization of $ 4.9 B and a 24-hour trading volume down by 11%. Now it stands at $107.9 million. At the same time, the circulating supply is approximately 762,209,327 UNI as per the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.

2. Chainlink

Chainlink, a blockchain ecosystem established in 2017, acted as an abstraction layer to enable globally connected smart contracts. It functions as a decentralized oracle network, giving smart contracts running on various blockchain platforms and smart contracts the data stream they need to function.

Chainlink’s price at the time of writing is $6.73, with a market capitalization of $ 3.4 B and a 24-hour trading volume down by 12.83%. Now it stands at $358 million. At the same time, the circulating supply is approximately 507,999,970 LINK as per the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.

3. Tezos

Tezos is a distributed ledger system that was created with the goal of supporting the execution of smart contracts using an on-chain governance model. Hard forks are unnecessary thanks to this on-chain governance model, which allows for blockchain upgrades. As a result, it also describes itself as a decentralized, self-amending platform for creating and executing smart contracts.

Tezos’s price at the time of writing is $1.03, with a market capitalization of $ 948 million and a 24-hour trading volume down by 49.63%. Now it stands at $24 million. At the same time, the circulating supply is approximately 923,609,606 XTZ as per the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.

4. Avalanche

Avalanche (AVAX) is a competing cryptocurrency and blockchain platform to Ethereum. The Avalanche blockchain enables near-instant transaction completion. AVAX is used to pay transaction fees as well as to secure the Avalanche network.

Avalanche’s price at the time of writing is $16.80, with a market capitalization of $ 5.2 B and a 24-hour trading volume down by 8.71%. Now it stands at $450 million. At the same time, the circulating supply is approximately 311,582,143 AVAX as per the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.

5. Curve DAO Token

One of the most popular Defi (decentralized finance) platforms, The Curve, manages liquidity using an automated market maker (AMM). AMM is a protocol that makes use of liquidity pools. However, it enables the automatic trading of digital assets. One of the key technologies in the Defi ecosystem is the liquidity pool. The distinguishing quality of CRV is that it is an ERC-20 utility token that can be exchanged for stablecoins and other ERC-20 tokens via the Curve.fi protocol.

Curve DAO Token’s price at the time of writing is $0.9135, with a market capitalization of $ 485 million and a 24-hour trading volume up by 7.38%. Now it stands at $151 million. At the same time, the circulating supply is approximately 531,583,334 CRV as per the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Please do your due diligence before investing in any asset.

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