Happy Monday, Blockfolians
The Lede
So here’s a wild statistic. In a 24-hour period over the weekend, Chainlink’s LINK token was traded more than Bitcoin on the US’s biggest exchange Coinbase Pro.
Now, of course, worldwide across all exchanges, LINK’s volume during the same period was only 17% that of BTC.
Still, it’s a capstone number that reflects just what a monster run LINK is having:
ATH price of $14.38 hit on Sunday
+68% in the last seven days alone
All 184k+ LINK addresses are in profit
700% gain year-to-date
What’s more, many point to DeFi - with its need for decentralized price oracles to make the smart contracts function - as the main driver, rather than just random 2017-esque speculation.
Whatever the case, LINK bagholders are about the happiest folks in cryptoland.
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Community Commentary
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A Really Big Number We Should Be Paying Attention To
58,000
That’s the number of users Uniswap added in July - another indicator of the growing important of DeFi
Final Thought
Great story!