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Ren Just Had a Great Week as Demand for Bitcoin on DeFi Rises

Prices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, experienced a great week, as the demand for bitcoin rises on DeFi.

By Muyao Shen
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:45 a.m. Published Aug 19, 2020, 8:34 p.m.
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Prices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, surged by more than 100% over the past week. That’s because the total amount of renBTC, a tokenized bitcoin that is locked in RenVM, broke 10,000 on Monday, according to data collected by DeFi Pulse.

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  • The total value locked in RenVM jumped to more than $174 million on Monday from approximately $59.9 million a week earlier.
  • There is a growing demand for having bitcoin BTC$91,487.74 on the Ethereum blockchain as it is increasingly used in decentralized finance (DeFI).
  • As reported by CoinDesk previously, RenVM holds a cryptocurrency and mints a representation of that crypto as an ERC-20 token (renBTC, for instance) for use on Ethereum.
  • Data from Dune Analytics shows more than 40,000 bitcoin have been tokenized on Ethereum. About 21.7% of that amount was minted by renBTC, making it second behind wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) in the market.
  • The recent popularity of tokenized bitcoin indicates a rising demand to use bitcoin in the white-hot Ethereum-based DeFi applications.
  • “Bitcoin is now an undeniable part of DeFi, with $420 million of BTC on Ethereum in one form or another,” Loong Wang, chief technical officer of Ren, tweeted on Aug. 15.

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