{"id":69476,"date":"2022-11-02T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69476"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:15:47","slug":"report-stablecoins-are-increasingly-used-in-defi-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-stablecoins-are-increasingly-used-in-defi-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Stablecoins are increasingly used in DeFi services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoins have become more actively used as collateral in lending protocols. This is noted in the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/alexandria\/article\/coinmarketcap-and-tokeninsight-q3-2022-crypto-market-report\\\">CoinMarketCap and TokenInsight report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cUSDC, USDT and DAI collectively account for 58% of the collateral volume on MakerDAO and 52% on Compound. In the second quarter the figures rose from 50% and 40% respectively,\u201d the researchers noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"704\\\" height=\\\"355\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TVL-Composition.png\\\" alt=\\\"Report: Stablecoins are being used more actively in DeFi services\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-189629\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TVL-Composition.png 704w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TVL-Composition-300x151.png 300w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/alexandria\/article\/coinmarketcap-and-tokeninsight-q3-2022-crypto-market-report\\\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to experts, <span data-descr=\\\"volume of assets locked in smart contracts\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">TVL<\/span> of lending projects MakerDAO, Aave and Compound has decreased by 59%, 61% and 74% since the start of the year. However, in the third quarter the figures remained almost unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>Compound&#8217;s share of the overall metric fell over three months from 22% to 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Among DeFi ecosystems, Ethereum continues to dominate by a large margin. However, the total TVL of Tron-based applications started to rise confidently after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terras-death-spiral-how-and-why-luna-and-ust-collapsed\">the Terra collapse<\/a> and the near-simultaneous <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-launches-on-the-tron-network\">launch of the algorithmic stablecoin USDD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-TVL-by-Blockchain-1024x497.png\\\" alt=\\\"Report: Stablecoins are being used more actively in DeFi services\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-189630\\\" width=\\\"840\\\" height=\\\"407\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-TVL-by-Blockchain-1024x497.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-TVL-by-Blockchain-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-TVL-by-Blockchain-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-TVL-by-Blockchain.png 1166w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/alexandria\/article\/coinmarketcap-and-tokeninsight-q3-2022-crypto-market-report\\\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Experts also noted growth of the ecosystem based on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">the layer-2 solution<\/a> from Optimism \u2014 161.62% in the third quarter. In their view, the platform has narrowed the gap to the leader of the segment \u2014 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/l2beat.com\/scaling\/tvl\/\\\">Arbitrum<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Compound <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-protocol-compound-pauses-support-for-zrx-bat-mkr-and-yfi-tokens\">paused<\/a> support for tokens ZRX, BAT, MKR and YFI due to their low liquidity.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoins have become more actively used as collateral in lending protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,1097,807],"class_list":["post-69476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-lending","tag-stablecoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69478,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69476\/revisions\/69478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}