A few outliers in top-5 DeFi tokens

Assets covered: UNI, SUSHI, YFI, CRV and AAVE

Metrics used: Daily active addresses, Network growth, Supply on exchanges, Age consumed, Network Realized Profit/Loss, Development Activity


DeFi tokens were quite hot lately. This is a short birds eye view on top-5 'consuls' in overall DeFi segment: UNI, SUSHI, YFI, CRV and AAVE.


Starting with price:

We can see that the DeFi 'blue chips' have dipped around U.S. Election day, all together, as one. Then rallied for a couple of weeks and chilled sideways until January. A top was reached around ten days later after BTC set a new ATH. Except YFI, it topped together with BTC. Back in autumn, some were saying that YFI price levels and behaviour could be like a guide for next BTC moves. And they were right, BTC topped around 40k as YFI did. Watch out for

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