
April 18th, 2025
Ethereum has been one of the best-performing digital assets this year. The digital coin’s year-to-date gains are over 480% and despite its slight slide, its value is up by 65% over the last 30 days and 7.4% in the last 24 hours.
The report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis recognized Ethereum as the leader in the smart contract aspect with the majority of the DeFi protocols built on it.
Polygon’s effort to bring the DeFi space to users started a while ago and has so far yielded many positive results this year.
The Aave liquidity mining program is aimed at growing the lending and borrowing activity in various targeted markets.
Coinbase has already made considerable investments in some of the decentralized financial projects including Dharma.
Coinbase Pro is one of the leading trading platforms in the United States and its support of Polygon, Skale, and SushiSwap makes a credible case for the growing strides of DeFi in the crypto sphere.
Historically, stimulus checks have been pumping the cryptocurrency market. Let us see if we see another round of bullish marathons this time. Today’s picks are AAVE, LINK and ETH.
The newly launched DeFi Alliance Fund aims to help early-stage DeFi startups by offering them financial and regulatory guidance as well as helping them connect with institutional players to fuel growth.
The final phase of the TrueFi launch should initiate the beginning of a highly functional, cross-chain uncollateralized lending platform, equally able to serve institutions, retain users, and lend to other protocols.
The GoodFi crypto DeFi alliance is a non-profit initiative launched with the goal of getting 100 million people putting at least $1 billion in DeFi by 2025.
News of the hack caused the Yearn’s native currency YFI to fall by around 15%, from $35,000 to just under $30,000
Through the latest surge in the price of the DeFi giant Aave, the Total Value Locked (TVL) has also increased in a corresponding manner.
Although the price of Ethereum is slightly down from its all-time high at the time of writing, it is a long way up from its lowest price point of $0.4209 attained back in October 2015.
UniSwap’s UNI DeFi token has shot to fame with a massive rally this year. The latest price jump comes on the backdrop of improving fundamentals of the UniSwap network.
Chainlink has emerged as the best performing crypto over the last week with its price moving past $25 over the last weekend. Also, the massive surge in DEX activity has led to a rally in the DeFi market with the total value locked going past $26.5 billion.