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Compound (COMP) Outruns Top DeFi Tokens as TVL Closes Above $2B

Yashu Gola by Yashu Gola
2 years ago
in DeFi
Reading Time: 2 mins read

Compound Finance’s native token COMP was among the biggest gainers in the decentralized finance space on Wednesday.

The fourth-largest DeFi token by market cap surged by more than 10 percent, hitting an intraday high of $154.08 as traders assessed a flurry of upside fundamentals around it. A pseudonymous analyst noted that the Compound protocol lured traders with competitive annual percentage yields on its staking platform. That allowed its liquidity pool to attract about $820 million worth of tokens in just five hours.

“Wonder if longing the bluechip with the highest APY when staked in a pool of a protocol that has amassed ~820m TVL in 5hrs is a reasonable strategy,” the analyst tweeted, followed by the word “COMP.”

The total value locked inside the Compound smart contracts surpassed $2 billion following the capital inflow. It corrected lower on Wednesday, but traders largely ignored the downside move.

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Compound Total Value Locked sustains above $2 billion. Source: DeFi Pulse
Compound Total Value Locked sustains above $2 billion. Source: DeFi Pulse

That may have to do with the Compound’s whitepaper released last week wherein it shared the details of its new blockchain: the Compound Chain. The paper projected it as a protocol-independent ledger that would store and transfer crypto assets between multiple blockchains.

A Break from Ethereum

Compound currently uses Ethereum as its principal blockchain. Therefore, its lending protocol cannot offer support to non-Ethereum assets. Compound Chain strives to fill the shortcomings, thereby enabling its protocol to facilitate direct liquidity across “peer chains.” They include ETH 2.0, Polkadot, Solana, Quorum, Celo, and many others.

Compound Chain is a tool that could bring more assets into the protocol from a variety of ledgers e.g. @Polkadot, @solana, @optimismPBC, Quorum, @CeloOrg, etc.

It's designed to compliment the Ethereum contracts, be controlled by $COMP governance, and extend DeFi network effects.

— Compound Labs (@compoundfinance) December 17, 2020

The Compound Chain will also introduce a native stablecoin CASH to pay block validators. COMP will continue to serve as a governance token, providing its holders the right to propose and vote for changes in the core Compound protocol.

The feature expects to come out in the first quarter of 2021.

COMP At Risk, Nevertheless

The latest COMP price rally, meanwhile, came with its own set of bearish foretellings. Technically, its December uptrend drew what analysts call an “Ascending Broadening Wedge.”

The pattern forms when an asset trends inside an area between two diverging trendlines, with the upper one acting as resistance and the lower one as support. COMP is fluctuating inside a similar structure since early November, as shown in the chart below.

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The Compound token is eyeing a bearish reversal. Source: COMPUSD on TradingView.com
The Compound token is eyeing a bearish reversal. Source: COMPUSD on TradingView.com

Ascending Broadening Wedges ends up turning assets lower 79 out of every 100 times, according to a study by Central Charts. Meanwhile, there is a 40 percent chance that the price may head towards the upper trendline for a pullback. That roughly puts COMP en route to a $200-valuation.

A breakdown below the Wedge could bring the price to as low as $81.

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Yashu Gola

Yashu Gola is a Mumbai-based finance journalist. He is profoundly active in the bitcoin space since 2014 – and has contributed to several cryptocurrency media outlets, including NewsBTC, FxDailyReport, Bitcoinist, and CCN. Academically, Yashu holds a bachelor's in information technology, with majors in data structures and C++ programming language. He has also won the 'Atulya Award' for his efforts towards raising $100,000 for an India-based farming project.

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