Fantom (FTM) has been in full swing in terms of price action and Total Value Locked (TVL) for the past couple of weeks. The project has managed to gain a whopping 25% surge in 24 hours. With a 35%surge in the trading volume, the FTM price was trading at $2.35 at the press time. Needless to say, there could be multiple catalysts for the impressive surge. Here are a few of these factors.
Ethereum challenger Fantom (FTM) is setting new fundamental records within the crypto ecosystem. Fantom is a highly scalable blockchain platform for DeFi, decentralized applications (DApps) and enterprise applications.
New data from DeFi Llama, an analytics platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) proved this feat. As per this, Fantom surpassed Binance Smart Chain (BSC) in terms of the total value locked (TVL). At press time,FTM, with $12.35B in TVL became the third largest DeFi chain. Whereas, BSC stood at the $12B mark.
Source: DeFilama
Indeed a remarkable achievement. Consider this. As of last year, Binance Smart Chain controlled over 20% of DeFi’s TVL primarily due to the rise of PancakeSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on it. However, that dominance dropped to around 6.05% due to the rise of other DeFi-enabled networks such as Solana, Terra, Avalanche, etc.
The rise in Fantom’s total value locked came as the top 1,000 non-exchange Ethereum whales accumulated FTM. Whale-monitoring platform WhaleStatsportrayed Fantom as the top altcoin. In the last 24 hours, investors acquired FTM with an average purchase amount of $1,620 worth of tokens.
The Fantom ecosystem witnessed some interesting developments within its sphere. Here’s the latest development. Andre Cronje, a core member announced the imminent deployment of Solidly on the
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