From Uniswap to Axies, these 6 DApps blew us away in 2020

From Uniswap to Axies, these 6 DApps blew us away in 2020

With the decentralized application space evolving rapidly, let’s take a look at some of the best examples that caught our attention in 2020. With the crypto market making a crazy comeback this year, an increasing number of casual investors all over the world are beginning to understand the potential that blockchain technology possesses. For example, over the course of 2020, decentralized applications gained a remarkable amount of traction, with the total locked volume across all decentralized exchanges rising from under $40 million back in December 2019 to a whopping more than $26 billion....


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