Onchain Reports Synthetic Bitcoin Valued at Over $700 Million is in Circulation on the Ethereum Chain

News • 2020/09/16 • by
remitano

The growth of synthetic Bitcoin has increased tremendously in the past weeks. About 38,021 BTC are circulating on the Ethereum blockchain. The top BTC project is the bundled bitcoin protocol (WBTC), which is about 44,622 or 63 percent. This is the most advanced BTC minting scheme. With 16,268 renBTC circulating today, the Ren Protocol has over 23 percent of the total synthetic BTC aggregate.

At the time of writing, the token hBTC comprises 4,810 and the token sBTC, 2,918. The two least synthetic BTC programs are imBTC (1,173) and pBTC (45).WBTC has gained more momentum, and Monday estimates that the Alameda Study acquired 70 percent of the WBTC minted in August. The FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded Alameda.

A significant proportion of synthetic bitcoin is used in Compound, Balancer, Aave, and Uniswap.

Synthetic bitcoin trades take place this week on several central exchanges like FTX and Binance. Synthetic Bitcoin exchanges occur on 0x, Bancor, Synthetix, Balance, Curve, and Uniswap on decentralized trading platforms.

Source: Bitcoin.com

Comments (4)
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freshprinx
6 years ago
More already in circulation
exodusab
6 years ago
We should expect more of it.
visiblemoney
6 years ago
Is there variance between the main BTC and the synthetic BTC?
lorettachinasa
6 years ago
This is what we expected

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