Without a doubt, decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the primary driver of crypto market momentum in 2020. Granted, bitcoin (BTC) made 200 per cent during the year and ethereum (ETH) over 380 per cent, but some of the DeFi-related tokens have surpassed those gains with monumental moon shots of their own.
Many of today’s DeFi-related coins did not exist at the beginning of the year as the scene has resembled a microcosmic explosion of new protocols and tokens all within a six-month period. Many of those tokens have resembled the pump and dump patterns that 2017’s altcoins went through, but some have performed solidly, and this article will highlight those high flying assets.
Early days of DeFi
There were not many DeFi-related tokens trading at the beginning of 2020, just a fraction of what had flooded the markets by the end of the year. Every new protocol needed its own governance token and they were mined like crazy by “degenerate farmers,” or degens as they became known, seeking a quick buck.
Naturally, the whales and insiders got considerably richer off this farming frenzy while the smaller retail traders seeking short term gains generally got burnt fingers. Investing into a new project just hours too late often resulted in a painful exit as those insiders made off with the loot, dumping the newly distributed tokens back onto the market.
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