Tag: Trader Joe

Avalanche-Based Altcoin Jumps After Getting Surprise Support from Crypto Exchange Binance

by Dailyhodl

The native token for a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Avalanche spiked in price after being listed on crypto giant Binance.

In a new announcement, Binance says that the native governance token of TraderJoe (JOE), an automated market maker DEX, will now be available for trading.

The news sent the altcoin’s price vertical, leaping 20 % from $2.20 to $2.65 almost instantly. JOE peaked as high as $2.67 but has since corrected back to $2.31 at time of writing.

JOE has been on an incredible run since August when the token was valued at under $0.10. While the overall crypto markets experienced a roller coaster of price swings during the fall months, JOE remains up over 20x since beginning its ascent.

In addition to the TraderJoe exchange, the project also features the lending protocol BankerJoe which implements features from Avalanche and the decentralized finance Compound (COMP) protocol.

JOE token holders are able to stake, provide liquidity and vote on project governance.

Binance says JOE will be available in the Bitcoin (BTC), Binance USD (BUSD) and USDT trading pairs.

Layer-1 smart contract platform Avalanche has also been on a winning streak over the past two weeks, with native token AVAX rising 59.85% from $79.71 on December 14th to as high as $127.42 last week.

It has since corrected and is currently trading for $108.38.

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3 reasons why Solana (SOL) price could see additional upside in 2022

by Cointelegraph

Solana (SOL) has become a top contender in the smart contract industry and in the past year the network’s total value locked (TVL) grew by $660 million and stretches across more than 40 decentralized applications to hit an all-time high above $11 billion.

Even with this growth, investors have reason to question whether the current $56 billion market capitalization is justified and how it compares to competing networks like binance smart chain (BNB), Avalanche (AVAX) and Polygon (MATIC).

Avalanche, Solana, Binance Coin, and Polygon, priced in USD. Source: TradingView

By analyzing the past 6-month price performance, there’s an apparent decoupling from Terra (LUNA), Solana and Avalanche when compared to other smart contract platform competitors.

There is strong institutional appetite for Solana’s ecosystem

Solana’s market capitalization is more than double Avalanche and Terra which have $26 billion market caps. Searching Solana’s latest news on Cointelegraph yields an exciting array of institutional investments, ranging from the $314 million private token sale by Solana Labs in June, to an $18 million fundraise in September by Solana’s DEX project Orca.

There’s solid evidence of a growing ecosystem judging by investor appetite. However, to understand how successful Solana’s scalability solution is, we have to evaluate its usage metrics.

Looking at the number of active addresses on Solana’s dApps is a good place to start.

Solana, Ethereum, Avalanche and Polygon 7-day most active dApps. Source: DappRadar

Ethereum’s leading dApp by active addresses is Uniswap, which has 188,200. Therefore, Raydium’s 97,600 weekly users is rather impressive considering it was launched just 10 months ago. Meanwhile, back in Feb. 2021, Uniswap already held over $4.3 billion TVL.

As for Solana’s NFT marketplace Magic Eden, its 58,400 weekly active addresses also account for more than half of Ethereum’s OpenSea, the sector’s absolute market leader in volume and users activity.

Avalanche user activity is highly concentrated on the Trader Joe decentralized finance app, but its $715 million weekly volume pales in comparison to Uniswap’s $22.1 billion or Raydium’s $12.5 billion. The same can be said by Polygon which has $573 million in trading activity at its QuickSwap DEX.

Solana has the third largest futures market

Solana currently holds the third largest futures open interest, which is the most relevant metric in derivatives contracts. This indicator aggregates the total number of contracts held by market participants regardless of the recent trading activity.

Solana futures aggregate open interest. Source: CoinGlass

Despite the sharp drop since the Nov. 8 peak at $1.9 billion, the current $860 million futures open interest ranks Solana the third derivatives market by size. For example, Binance Coin (BNB) futures holds $520 million, followed by Terra (LUNA) with $430 million.

Solana leads in TVL, users and derivatives markets

Undoubtedly, there’s an impressive amount of activity coming from Solana’s on-chain data and derivatives markets. The network’s TVL increased by 15x over the past 6 months and Solana’s dApps users is nearly half the amount of users on the Ethereum network.

Solana seems to be quickly closing the gap in three important metrics: TVL, active users, and derivatives markets. Competitors like Terra, Avalanche and Polygon seem a long way behind, which possibly justifies the market capitalization premium.

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