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Breaking News: FTX Recovery Trust Set To Disburse $1.6 Billion By Month-End, FTT Price Skyrockets

Nearly 1% Of Bitcoin Supply Is Now Wrapped In Ethereum

Keshav Verma
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As wrapped Bitcoin approaches 189,000 BTC, the leading form of BTC on Ethereum now makes up for nearly 1% of the total supply of the cryptocurrency.

The total supply of WBTC was only around 4,000 coins last June, and today it is 47 times that. The gigantic growth has made the token the most popular form of Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain.

WBTC touches the 1% mark | Source: Arcane Research

Overall, around 240,000 BTC has been tokenized into Ethereum protocols, of which 80% of the supply comprises of WBTC.

Why The Need For WBTC?

Tokenized BTC is becoming increasingly popular because the Bitcoin blockchain lacks some functionality that Ethereum does not.

As the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem is highly lucrative, it’s not surprising that investors are looking to get their hands on some of those yields.

WBTC isn’t the only BTC token on Ethereum. HBTC and RENBTC are some of the other examples. However, only WBTC is noticing such massive growth.

Below is a chart that visualizes the difference between WBTC and other tokens:

WBTC runs away from the rest | Source: Dune Analytics

As is clear from the chart, the competition of the token is largely stagnant, and drastically lesser in circulation, making up for only 20% of the total BTC supply on Ethereum.

Related Reading | Privacy Protection: The Future of DeFi

BadgerDAO

BadgerDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that aims to build the products and infrastructure necessary to bring Bitcoin as collateral to other blockchains.

BadgerDAO has played an important part in Wrapped Bitcoin’s rise above its competition. The platform currently has $632 million in tokens locked in.

There are 13 vaults (called “setts”) in total on the website where you can deposit your tokens. A lot of these setts are liquidity pairs of WBTC and some other token. As a natural consequence, not all the value is locked under the wrapped token.

Nonetheless, there is a WBTC-only sett that is powered by Yearn Finance. The vault is now the biggest one on the platform with about $200 million tokens deposited.

Badger offers quite low price-to-earning ratio | Source: BadgerDAO

The above chart is from a BadgerDAO report that shows that they have one of the lowest price-to-earning ratios when compared to other DeFI businesses.

Related Reading | Top 10 DeFi Projects in Q2 2021

Bitcoin Price

In the past 30 days, the value of the cryptocurrency has dropped by 14%.

However, the general trend seems to have changed towards up in this past week of June so far. Below is a chart showing the variation in the cryptocurrency’s value:

BTC seems to be on a slight upward trend | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView

As per a Voyager Digital survey, 87% of the respondents plan to buy more cryptocurrency in the coming months. 7 out of 10 respondents also believe market sentiment is bullish in the next three months.

However, other investors like Rich Bernstein feel that we are looking at a bearish market.

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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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