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Ethereum [ETH] Breaks Below Critical Support at $200 with Bitcoin’s DeFi Inclusion

04 May Ethereum [ETH] Breaks Below Critical Support at $200 with Bitcoin’s DeFi Inclusion

Posted at 08:19h in Bitcoin News by

Ethereum [ETH] based DeFi, MakerDAO, adds support for Bitcoin [BTC] as a collateral to issue the DAI stablecoin. WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin), issued on Ethereum, will now be used in addition to ETH, BAT, and USDC to open Maker Vaults in order to generate Dai.  Maker developers noted in the update yesterday,

Bitcoin holders can now turn their BTC into WBTC (bringing Bitcoin to the Ethereum blockchain), and then use it to generate Dai.

MakerDao is one of the leading DeFi solutions built on Ethereum. Widening the collateral pool to include a variety of cryptocurrencies essentially generates FIAT using the value of cryptocurrencies. Nic Carter, leading on-chain analyst and founder of Coinmetrics, noted,

I think “pure” crypto-backed stablecoins are very powerful & highly value accretive to the underlying native units (i.e. btc & ether). There’s merit in staying pure. Even though it’s more expensive to create $s (dollar) out of pure crypto collateral.

Nevertheless, there remains…

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