Weekly DeFi Index

This week's market cap, volume, and volatility indices were negative at -12.81%, -3.29%, and -1.00%, respectively.

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*DeFI index tokens: AAVE, BAL, CAKE, COMP, CRV, CVX, FXS, JOE, LDO, LINK, MKR, OSMO, REN, SNX, SPELL, SUSHI, UNI, VVS, YFI.

New Project Spotlight

Cronos recently announced the latest batch of its Ecosystem Grants recipients. First launched back in December 2021, the programme aims to support innovative, early-stage projects on Cronos and align incentives with new builders and teams. For its sixth batch, five projects were selected, including NFT explorer platform NFTScan, blockchain data analysis platform Footprint Analytics, and developer integration toolkit Transak.

As of 20 Dec 2022

Sources: DeFi Llama, Crypto.com Research

Note: TVL excludes governance token staking, staked LP tokens that one of the coins in the pair is governance token, double counting (TVL feeds into another protocol), borrowing, liquidity staking, and vesting

As of 20 Dec 2022

Sources: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama, Crypto.com Research

News Highlight

• Payment giant Paypal will soon be integrating with crypto wallet Metamask. Metamask said that this integration will enable users to select Paypal as a payment method when buying Ether within the Web3 wallet, and the feature will be fully rolled out to U.S. users in the coming weeks.

• Visa recently released a proposal paper that outlines how it could collaborate with Ethereum to build “auto-payment contracts”. It details how it can utilise Account Abstraction (AA), which combines user accounts and smart contracts into one Ethereum account type. 

• Curve Finance announced its plans to deploy on zkSync 2.0 mainnet in 2023. It will start development on zkSync as part of its Fair Onboarding Alpha phase, which aims to provide projects the opportunity to test and audit the system. 

• Solana-based DeFi protocol Raydium was hacked, with over US$2.2 million worth of cryptocurrencies stolen. According to Raydium, the hacker used one of the protocol owner’s private keys to take over its “owner authority”, which was then used to drain its liquidity pools. Raydium’s native token RAY dropped 8% to $0.16 as of press time, just minutes after the attack. 

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