More than $6 billion value of Bitcoin is now tokenized on Ethereum as WBTC.
One p.c of Bitcoin’s circulating present is at the 2nd tokenized as Wrapped BTC (WBTC), equating to nearly $6.2 billion value of BTC.
The milestone was once acknowledged by the product manager of crypto custody firm BitGo, Kia Mosayeri, who tweeted the records on June 7. BitGo is the custodian for the Wrapped Bitcoin protocol, which was once launched its Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token WBTC on Ethereum in January 2019.
1% of all BTC has been wrapped into $WBTC! https://t.co/jOi0LZZUyi
— WBTC (@WrappedBTC) June 7, 2021
In step with Etherscan, there are at the 2nd 187,610 Bitcoins wrapped on the protocol, equating to a fully diluted market capitalization of $6.18 billion. The present circulating present of BTC is virtually 18.73 million, in step with CoinGecko, confirming the 1% milestone.
BTConEthereum estimates there are 240,620 Bitcoins that had been tokenized accurate via various protocols for exhaust on Ethereum, representing a blended capitalization of $7.91 billion. Wrapped Bitcoin exerts a clear dominance over the sector, representing 78% of all Bitcoin tokenized on Ethereum.
Diversified leading Bitcoin tokenization protocols embody 2nd-ranked Huobi BTC with 37,906 BTC or 15.7% of the Bitcoin’s present, and the third-ranked RenBTC with 10,226 tokenized BTC. Artificial BTC furthermore holds 1,471 BTC, followed by imBTC with 1,169 Bitcoin, and TBTC with 916 BTC.
Doubtlessly the most common proliferation of yield farms and keenness-bearing Ethereum-based completely DeFi protocols supporting tokenized BTC has been the principle power driving the sector’s development.
In leisurely April, Ethereum-based completely BTC yield protocol BadgerDAO teamed up with RenVM to launch a bridge between renBTC and its possess yield farms. DeFi Llama estimates that better than $540 million value of sources is locked on the BadgerDAO platform.
