{"id":440523,"date":"2020-10-06T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=440523"},"modified":"2020-10-06T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T01:00:06","slug":"ethereum-leads-defi-tokens-on-a-60-average-fall-from-summer-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/ethereum\/ethereum-leads-defi-tokens-on-a-60-average-fall-from-summer-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Leads DeFi Tokens On A 60% Average Fall From Summer Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ethereum is the top dog when it comes to DeFi. Other decentralized finance tokens are built on its blockchain and require ETH gas fees to transact<\/a>. This also could be why the top-ranked altcoin is held up a lot better than the rest of the DeFi space, which has fallen on average 60% across the board, Ethereum included.<\/p>\n Just how far have these assets fallen from recent Summer highs, and how much deeper could DeFi dive into the end of the year?<\/p>\n Due to the promise of DeFi<\/a>, it is not surprising how popular it became. What is shocking was how rapidly the trend took off, and how quickly asset valuations soared.<\/p>\n Aave (LEND) for example<\/a>, remains up well over 3000% year-to-date, even after a drop of 40% from the summer highs. But now that DeFi’s summer of love is over, the breakup is about to get nasty.<\/p>\n On average, most Ethereum-based DeFi tokens have tanked by 60% or more from the recent peak. And in short order, several of these tokens have already lost as much as 90% in some cases.<\/p>\n Related Reading | The Great Ethereum Debate: DeFi Versus ICOs<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The collapse of the weakest decentralized finance tokens is reminiscent of the ICO collapse<\/a> around the time the crypto bubble burst. Some of the projects born from them are still interesting projects today, but most are dead, abandoned, and remain down by 90% or more.<\/p>\n Even Ethereum itself still has long ways to go to revisit former all-time highs compared to even Bitcoin.<\/p>\n Never having experienced a major negative drawdown helped many of these DeFi tokens keep on climbing, but now that is over, could the crypto market collapse due to the DeFi mini-bubble<\/a>?<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/ceterispar1bus\/status\/08272896?s=21<\/p>\n Ethereum, the protocol that most popular DeFi tokens are built on<\/a> has held up a lot stronger compared to the rest of the decentralized finance space.<\/p>\n In the chart below, Ethereum’s fall is compared to other DeFi tokens such as Balancer and Yearn.Finance. YFI was one of the biggest success stories<\/a> of the mini-bubble, sending the asset’s price soaring to four times the price per Bitcoin. Now it is at risk of falling to prices much cheaper.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While the DeFi trend was far shorter-lived than the ICO-boom<\/a>, there’s clearly a resemblance between the two trends. Etheruem was central to both, and while the latter is more sustainable, there’s no denying the crypto sub-category got out of control too quickly.<\/p>\n When speculative assets get overheated too quickly, valuations come tumbling down just as hard, as crypto investors time and time again have learned the hard way.<\/p>\n And unlike the rest of the DeFi tokens that aren’t quite ready for real-world adoption, Ethereum has cemented itself as the backbone of the crypto industry itself.<\/p>\nDeFi Tokens Dive 60% Or More Across The Board: Has The Mini-Bubble Popped?<\/h2>\n
Ethereum Holds Strong Compared To Other Tokens, Here’s Why<\/h2>\n
Ethereum (ETH<\/a>) Versus Balancer (BAL<\/a>) Versus Yearn.Finance (YFI<\/a>) | Source: TradingView<\/a><\/pre>\n