DeFi summer 3.0? Uniswap overtakes Ethereum on fees, DeFi outperforms
Fees spiked to a high of $8.36 million for Uniswap on June 15, beating out Ethereum on the same day at $7.99 million, and coincided with an 8.7% pump for UNI. Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has overtaken its host blockchain Ethereum in terms of fees paid over a seven-day rolling average.The surge appears part of a recent spate of high demand for DeFi amid the current bear market. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms such as AAVE and Synthetix have seen surges in fees paid over the past seven days, while their native tokens, and others such as Compound (COMP) have also boomed in....
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