While the price of bitcoin has been volatile during the last
seven days, a number of smart contract platforms have been performing
far better this week. Statistics indicate that the total value locked
(TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) is $267 billion and the TVL held
on Ethereum commands the lion’s share of this value. Ethereum is the
largest smart contract platform today, in terms of market valuation, but
a number of competitors have increased significantly in value over the
last 12 months.
3 Smart Contract Tokens Surpassed Ethereum’s 12 Month Gains by a Long Shot
The largest smart contract platform Ethereum (ETH)
has a market valuation of around $555 billion and it commands 18.7% of
the entire crypto economy’s net value. Metrics also show that there’s
$267 billion TVL in defi today, and the Ethereum protocol captures $179 billion
or 49.16% of the overall TVL in defi. In terms of trade volume, ether
has $15.5 billion in global swaps today, which is much larger than its
competitors. ETH has outpaced BTC in 12 month gains with 914% during the last year, compared to BTC’s 299% increase in value.
However, a number of other smart contract platforms have outperformed ETH’s 12-month stats. For instance, while solana (SOL)
holds the fifth largest market capitalization, in terms of smart
contract platforms it is the second-largest chain with an overall
valuation of $71.2 billion. ETH’s 914% 12 month gain is decent but SOL
jumped 12,337% during the last year. Solana’s market capitalization
dominance is 2.39% on Saturday. The TVL held in defi on the Solana
network is $14.22 billion, which is the third-largest TVL by chain below
the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
Cardano (ADA) is the third-largest smart contract platform with a market capitalization of around $66.5 billion today. ADA has also outperformed ethereum’s (ETH) 12-month gains as ADA
has risen 1,881% this past year. In terms of TVL in defi, metrics from
defillama.com do not include any statistics for the Cardano blockchain.
Cardano’s market capitalization on Saturday is around 2.23% of the whole
market economy. The fourth-largest smart contract platform in terms of
overall market valuation is the crypto asset avalanche (AVAX).
5th Largest Smart Contract Token Chainlink Sees Smaller Gains Than Ethereum This Year — LUNA and MATIC Climb in Value
Avalanche (AVAX) has a market capitalization of around $20 billion on
Saturday and there’s $625 million in global AVAX swaps during the last
24 hours. Avalanche is represented on defillama.com’s chains market metrics, and is the fifth-largest defi chain in terms of TVL ($10.11B) under Terra. Avalanche is also under the market valuation of terra (LUNA)
as AVAX holds the 13th largest market position. 12-month metrics
indicate that AVAX too has outpaced ethereum’s gains as AVAX climbed
2,598% year to date.
Chainlink (LINK)
is the fifth-largest smart contract platform by market capitalization
with an overall valuation of $15.9 billion today. The $15.9 billion puts
LINK in the 15th market position out of the 10,000+ crypto-assets in
existence. Unfortunately for ‘LINK Marines,’ chainlink has not outpaced
ethereum in terms of gains. Year-to-date, LINK
has gained 175% in value after hitting the crypto asset’s all-time high
six months ago on May 10, 2021. Still, in terms of smart contract
platforms, the sixth-largest chain Algorand (ALGO) needs to jump 17.61% higher in order to surpass LINK’s market valuation.
Other top-performing smart contract platform tokens include terra (LUNA) up 15,925% year-to-date, polygon (MATIC) jumped 10,859% in the last 12 months, and fantom (FTM) up 14,924% during the course of the last year. Top defi TVLs without mentioning ETH,
SOL, AVAX, include blockchains like Binance Smart Chain ($21.07B),
Terra ($10.91B), Tron ($6.45B), Fantom ($5.48B), and Polygon ($5B).
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