Ginns: DEX trading volume jumped from $4.5B to $60B in six months
Seth Ginns · Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182) · Mar 15, 2021 · at 22:36
Seth Ginns, Managing Partner at CoinFund, highlights the exponential expansion of decentralized finance (DeFi) trading activity with Ted Seides.
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“July of last year, four and a half billion or so of trading volumes. That was more than all of 2019 combined. Fast forward to January of this year, sixty billion of trading volume.”
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