All-In on DeFi: Why the Days of Centralized Exchanges Are Numbered

The Centralized Bitcoin exchanges seem to coordinate their prices across continental divides. One goes down - they all go down. The question is why the public tolerates their scam. If they were useful or desirable, they'd consider the very people who sustain the Bitcoin network, namely Bitcoin miners who, below $400, likely operate at a loss. Exchange clients and miners get whatever is happening in the busiest exchange. The exchanges' arbitrage-bots equalize prices between one another. Miners - you're the backbone of this innovation. Cryptomonkeys - you think you're trading - but your....

Analysts predict Ether may soon hit a new all-time high after ETH reserves on centralized exchanges fell by 27% in two days. The amount of Ether held on exchanges has plunged over the past two days, with CryptoQuant data indicating that just 8.1 million ETH is currently sitting in the reserves of centralized exchanges.The acceleration of ETH being taken off exchanges was highlighted by Nuggets News’ Alex Saunders, who noted a 10% drop in Ether reserves on centralized platforms on Jan.14 — from 11 million to 10 million over 24 hours. “Exchanges will run out of ETH in 10 days at current....

While the amount of ETH locked in DeFi protocols is up 75% since the start of 2020, the sum of Ether held on centralized exchanges has fallen by 30% over the same period. Ether is being locked up in decentralized finance contracts at an accelerating rate this year, while the amount held on centralized exchanges continues to fall.On May 7, on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, shared a chart comparing the number of Ether deposited in Ethereum-based smart contracts to the number of ETH held on centralized exchanges over the past 17 months.Since the start of 2020, the share of supply....

Security remains a perennial concern for DeFi protocols, but DeFi will still inevitably “grow and flourish,” Bitfinex chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino believes. Despite the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency investors appear to be sticking to centralized exchanges (CEXs) over DeFi tools, according to a new report.Crypto investors are more comfortable holding their assets on CEXs because decentralized exchanges are still more vulnerable to the threat of hacks. This is according to a joint report by the blockchain data firm Chainalysis and Bitfinex exchange, issued on....

AMM-based decentralized exchanges are seeing unprecedented adoption, but are they the future of trading? Centralized exchanges play an important role in the cryptocurrency industry. While their decentralized exchange counterparts have been growing in popularity and usage since 2020, the overwhelming majority of crypto trading volume is still concentrated on centralized exchanges. The supremacy of CEXs can be clearly observed in the size and popularity of trading platforms like Binance and Coinbase, which are now so recognizable and mainstream that Coinbase has recently become the first....