With COMP Below $100, a Look Back at the ‘DeFi Summer’ It Sparked

With COMP Below $100, a Look Back at the ‘DeFi Summer’ It Sparked

Compound's governance token, COMP, fell below $100 early Tuesday. The DeFi token kicked off the yield farming craze way back in June.


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