Wood CathieThe founder of the asset management company Invested arkpraised the strong growth in decentralized finance with regard to centralized finances on Tuesday, calling it as a “revolution in financial services”.
What happened: The influential investor responded to an x post of Lorenzo Valiente. Director of research at Ark Invest, who underlined the “solid and secular trends” of Defi.
Valente stressed that despite the volatility of the market and macro uncertainty, the share of DEFI in long -term trading has increased from 1.6% to 7% from the fourth quarter of 2022, while its share in punctual trading increased from 7% to 20%.
Even more fascinating was the leap on the part of Defi in loans, going from 15% to more than 60%. “Defi is not only surviving – it’s scaling up,” said Valentin.
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Why it matters: Wood’s optimism occurs at a time when Defi makes significant progress in the financial sector.
According to Defillama, the exchanges of decentralized cryptocurrency recorded a volume of $ 6.82 billion in the last 24 hours, with Uniswap UNI / USD And Raydium Ray / Usd be the main engines. The dominance of which was greater than 25%, which indicates that decentralized exchanges recorded a quarter of the volume compared to centralized exchanges.
Unlike CEFI, the traditional system that is based on banks and governments to control the money flow, DEFI uses peer blockchain technology to facilitate transactions, which makes it possible to avoid intermediaries.
Wood farm, Invested ark,, Invested in cryptocurrencies, with its accent on “big three”, namely, Bitcoin BTC / USD,, Ethereum ETH / USDAnd Solara SOL / USD.
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