Last week, China cracked down on crypto and declared virtual currency-related business activities, including the provision of services by overseas exchanges to Chinese residents through the Internet to be “illegal financial activities.”
As we reported, this sent the prices of cryptocurrencies crashing, but that dip was not the one to sell your tokens as historically, it hasn’t turned out well for the sellers.
Crypto assets have already started to recover and are now back at the levels before the crackdown-induced sell-off.
Bitcoin was trading above $45k when the China ban news struck, and we fell to about $40,750. On Sunday, the market started to recoup these losses and went to $44,400, and on Monday are hovering around $44k.
BTC -1.10%
Bitcoin / USD
BTCUSD
$ 43,274.02
-$476.01
-1.10%
Volume 31.24 b
Change -$476.01
Open $43,274.02
Circulating 18.83 m
Market Cap 814.77 b
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Akin to Bitcoin, Ether fell to $2,730 on Friday before climbing to $3,165 on Sunday and is now keeping around $3,100.
ETH -2.57%
Ethereum / USD
ETHUSD
$ 3,016.50
-$77.52
-2.57%
Volume 19.38 b
Change -$77.52
Open $3,016.50
Circulating 117.7 m
Market Cap 355.05 b
9 h
South Korea’s Largest Crypto Exchange Operator Raises $85 Million at an $8.65 Billion Valuation
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DeFi Rallies on China Ban as Chinese Turn to Decentralized Projects, Crypto Prices Recover to Pre-ban Levels
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The total crypto market is up more than 7% in the past 24 hours and above $2 trillion.
As for exchange tokens that took a big hit, they have recovered as well. After dropping 16%, BNB saw an 8% increase in its value. OKB, which tumbled 42.6% over the period of two days, has rallied 53% since Sunday. Meanwhile, HT fell the hardest by 52%, only to register a 25.5% rise in value.
BNB -1.98%
Binance Coin / USD
BNBUSD
$ 342.89
-$6.79
-1.98%
Volume 1.55 b
Change -$6.79
Open $342.89
Circulating 168.14 m
Market Cap 57.65 b
9 h
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2 d
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4 d
Wormhole Launches Solana-Ethereum Bridge to Move NFTs Cross-Chain
OKB 16.50%
OKB / USD
OKBUSD
$ 15.15
$2.50
16.50%
Volume 759.85 m
Change $2.50
Open $15.15
Circulating 60 m
Market Cap 908.93 m
9 h
DeFi Rallies on China Ban as Chinese Turn to Decentralized Projects, Crypto Prices Recover to Pre-ban Levels
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HT 8.02%
Huobi Token / USD
HTUSD
$ 7.71
$0.62
8.02%
Volume 458.51 m
Change $0.62
Open $7.71
Circulating 164.08 m
Market Cap 1.27 b
9 h
DeFi Rallies on China Ban as Chinese Turn to Decentralized Projects, Crypto Prices Recover to Pre-ban Levels
4 mon
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However, the star of this recovery was the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Earlier last week, DeFi’s market cap was around $103 billion, and today, it is at $123.2 billion.
The biggest contributor to this strong upward movement includes IDEX (37%), PERP (24%), HEGIC (19%), DYDX (16%), RGT (15%), CRV (14%), UNI (11%), and RAY (10%).
Good activity this weekend with strong reversal yesterday for DeFi tokens, UNI +35% in last 24 hours pic.twitter.com/vpuAKZSx3h
— Coinbase Institutional (@CoinbaseInsto) September 27, 2021
The total value locked (TVL) in DeFi has also climbed to $178.4 billion, up from $163 billion early last week and reaching $195.9 billion ATH earlier this month.
With China declaring crypto activities illegal, the Chinese are turning to DeFi to access cryptocurrency projects.
“All DeFi tokens should be rallying hard on the back of the “China ban” news. And along with it, all of the underlying layer 1 and 2s supporting DeFi. As well as NFTs. Anything that is decentralized literally,” noted Spartan Black of crypto fund The Spartan Group.
A large number of Chinese users will flood into the DeFi world, and the number of users of MetaMask and dYdX will greatly increase. All Chinese communities are discussing how to learn defi.
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) September 26, 2021
Similar sentiments are shared by Mathew Graham, CEO of VC firm Sino Global Capital who said on Twitter, “China crypto is basically one big DeFi education seminar these days.”
“In my view the potential for a significant DeFi adoption catalyst is quite considerable,” Graham added.
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