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It's "Up Only" For ETH and DeFi

Ether and the most popular DeFi metrics are all smashing through new records. Ether continues to push higher, hitting a record of $2487 earlier today, according to CoinGecko. Rising ETH prices is pushing total value locked in DeFi to a new high in dollar terms of $55.9B. ETH locked in DeFi hit an all-time high…

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It's "Up Only" For ETH and DeFi

Ether and the most popular DeFi metrics are all smashing through new records.

Ether continues to push higher, hitting a record of $2487 earlier today, according to CoinGecko. Rising ETH prices is pushing total value locked in DeFi to a new high in dollar terms of $55.9B.

ETH locked in DeFi hit an all-time high of 10.78M on Apr. 3 according to DeFi Pulse, largely because of the 639K ETH contributed to the Fei Protocol. ETH accounts for about 45% of assets deposited in DeFi smart contracts.

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Lending protocol Compound Finance is the biggest contributor to TVL with $11B locked, followed by Maker, Uniswap and Aave, all holding at least $6B in assets.

The DeFi Pulse Index, DeFi’s leading index in terms of assets under management (AUM) is also at an all-time high of $504 at the time of writing. MakerDAO’s MKR is the best performing DeFi token in the past week, gaining 87%, according to CoinGecko.

ETH Gains Ground on BTC

Ether’s price relative to Bitcoin has also gained 10% on the week, despite BTC’s 8.6% pump. The ETH/BTC ratio is 0.039 at the time of writing, highest point since Feb. 5, when it hit 0.045. The highest ETH/BTC has ever been is 0.11, which came on on Jan. 18, 2018.

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Not Quite Mania

Daily active addresses on Ethereum are nearing an all-time high too, though their approach has been less steep than the still-standing high which came on Jan. 18, 2018, at the end of the last bull cycle. This may suggest that despite the noise, the top may not be in yet.

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