New entrants to the DeFi sector and established traders looking to
borrow funds have pushed the price of Compound (COMP) to a new all-time
high.
As Bitcoin and numerous altcoins surge toward new all-time highs,
traders who are coin rich but cash poor are increasingly flocking to
decentralized finance lending platforms where they can collatoralize
their holdings to raise funds for new investments.
Compound is
one of the leading DeFi lending platforms and over the past month its
TVL and governance token price has rallied to new highs.
Compound,
which ranks third among DeFi lending protocols, has $4.55 billion worth
of assets locked on the platform and its COMP governance token has
doubled in value over the past week. Currently COMP trades for $566, a
new all-time high and 325% increase since the start of 2021 .
Stock buying limitations highlight the need for DeFi
While
there are no major announcements that seem to have catalyzed the
current rally from COMP, the project did recently integrate with
Ledger’s Lend platform which allows wallet users to interact with the
Compound platform and lend out their stablecoins.
On Jan. 29 Compound co-founder Robert Leshner discussed the stock buying limitations brokerage firms like Robinhood placed on stocks like AMC and GameStop.
According
to Leshner, all markets are affected by long trade settlement times due
to the structure of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC),
and he suggested that “markets run on blockchains” as “the long-term
answer” to the problems currently faced.
Lesner stated:
“Instant
settlement would eliminate most of the complexity, cost, and capital
requirements which plague T+2 settlement. Robinhood wouldn't have credit
obligations, or the need to turn against their own customers.”
AT
the time COMP was trading for $241 and it’s possible that the extra
attention the GameStop fiasco brought to the crypto and DeFi sector may
have motivated some investors to give Compound and other decentralized
exchange platforms a try.
COMP breakout follows key governance vote
On
Feb. 1 COMP proposal 36 reached the required threshold needed to allow a
three-day community voting period, which finished on Feb 12.
The
proposal, which sought to allow the “Community Autonomous Proposal
(CAP) to increase the Collateral Factor (CF) of WrappedBTC from 60% to
75%” on the platform,” passed by a wide margin and will be implemented
after a two-day waiting period.
Another wave of buying followed
this announcement, propelling the price of COMP 54% higher from $382 in
the early trading hours on Feb. 4 to $555 on Feb.5.
As attention
from institutional investors grows and big-name influencers like Elon
Musk and Mark Cuban tout the benefits of decentralized finance and the
yield it offers, the current uptrend in TVL is poised to move higher as
token values and protocol engagement surge to new highs.
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