Tokenized Bitcoin in Circulation Nears a Half Million BTC, Bitcoin-Pegged Token Value Exceeds $21 Billion
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Tokenized Bitcoin in Circulation Nears a Half Million BTC, Bitcoin-Pegged Token Value Exceeds $21 Billion

THELOGICALINDIAN - According to abstracts recorded on December 28 theres about 43426543 bitcoinpegged or captivated bitcoin tokens account added than 213 billion beyond several blockchains Ten altered bitcoinpegged projects abide today and the activity Captivated Bitcoin dominates 5966 of all the tokenized bitcoin in circulation

Close to a Half Million Tokenized Bitcoin Circulates on Several Blockchains, Wrapped Bitcoin Dominates by 59%

Toward the end of 2018, back tokenization absolutely started heating up in the crypto space, a cardinal of altered projects launched bitcoin-pegged badge protocols. On January 30, 2018, Bitcoin.com News reported on the Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) activity ablution on Ethereum.

By the end of July 2019, WBTC eclipsed the Lightning Arrangement (LN) in agreement of absolute amount locked. Today, WBTC is the better bitcoin (BTC)-pegged badge activity with 259,090 BTC in apportionment on the Ethereum network.

Statistics announce that there are seven BTC-pegged projects on Ethereum and altogether, the seven projects command 323,264 BTC absolute amount bound (TVL). The second-largest tokenized BTC agreement on Ethereum is HBTC with 39,884 BTC.

HBTC is followed by RENBTC (17,054), SBTC (4,203), IMBTC (1,317), PBTC (888), and TBTC (828), respectively. Accordingly, the 323,264 BTC TVL captivated in Ethereum is 74.43% of the accumulated BTC-pegged tokens in apportionment today.

BTCB Dominates by 24%, Tokenized Bitcoin in Circulation Issued by Blockstream, RSK Represent 1.35% of Today’s Tokenized Bitcoin Total

There’s addition tokenized BTC agreement that leverages the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) alleged BTCB that’s aloof beneath WBTC in agreement of TVL. At the time of writing, there’s about 105,115.44 BTCB in apportionment on December 28.

BTCB has a absolutely adulterated bazaar assets of about $5.52 billion and $43.6 actor in all-around barter volume. The best alive exchanges swapping BTCB today accommodate Hitbtc, Pancakeswap v2, Thorchain, and Pancakeswap v1.

There are additionally two added tokenized BTC projects operated by Blockstream and RSK. Today, RSK has 2,522 RBTC in circulation, which is additionally backed by 95 exahash per additional (EH/s) of BTC hashpower.

Blockstream’s amalgamated sidechain, Liquid, has about 3,363.99 LBTC in apportionment at the time of writing. RSK has about $124 actor in tokenized bitcoin in apportionment while Liquid’s LBTC amount is $165.4 million.

Liquid’s LBTC is alone 0.77% of the accumulated tokenized BTC in apportionment today beyond ten protocols. RBTC is alike lower as its RBTC assets represent alone 0.58% of the 434,265.43 aggregate. At the accepted aisle of all the tokenized BTC projects today, there will anon be about bisected a actor tokenized BTC leveraged on several another chains.

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