December 19th, 2025
Historically, stimulus checks have been pumping the cryptocurrency market. Let us see if we see another round of bullish marathons this time. Today’s picks are AAVE, LINK and ETH.
The newly launched DeFi Alliance Fund aims to help early-stage DeFi startups by offering them financial and regulatory guidance as well as helping them connect with institutional players to fuel growth.
The final phase of the TrueFi launch should initiate the beginning of a highly functional, cross-chain uncollateralized lending platform, equally able to serve institutions, retain users, and lend to other protocols.
The GoodFi crypto DeFi alliance is a non-profit initiative launched with the goal of getting 100 million people putting at least $1 billion in DeFi by 2025.
News of the hack caused the Yearn’s native currency YFI to fall by around 15%, from $35,000 to just under $30,000
Through the latest surge in the price of the DeFi giant Aave, the Total Value Locked (TVL) has also increased in a corresponding manner.
Although the price of Ethereum is slightly down from its all-time high at the time of writing, it is a long way up from its lowest price point of $0.4209 attained back in October 2015.
UniSwap’s UNI DeFi token has shot to fame with a massive rally this year. The latest price jump comes on the backdrop of improving fundamentals of the UniSwap network.
Chainlink has emerged as the best performing crypto over the last week with its price moving past $25 over the last weekend. Also, the massive surge in DEX activity has led to a rally in the DeFi market with the total value locked going past $26.5 billion.
Link has moved from a trading price of $12 on January 11, 2021, to a current position of $22 with a market cap of near $9 billion.
The cryptocurrency market is still northbound as Bitcoin sets new ATH every other week.
However, the total number of Ethereum locked up in DeFi plunged from 9.4 million ETH in mid-late October to the current 6.8 million ETH locked up at the time of writing.
While all companies across all sectors can not boast of milestone achievements this year, the few highlights of top news is an indication that the year was not doomed after all and market analysts are projecting a better recovery and growth in the coming year 2021.
Right now, the whole community is waiting for a DeFi remedy to be created and Shadow Staking could possibly become the DeFi safety standard in this sphere.
Money On Chain and RSK are further making the case for BTC being the hub around which defi revolves, the future is looking bright for Bitcoin.