A week after the fallout from the FTX and Alameda chaos, some on-chain data points are interesting to observe. Although record amounts of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are leaving the exchanges, not all decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols have shown growth, mainly due to reliance on FTX and Alameda.
DeFi earnings highlight positive revenue for some protocols
According to Token Terminal’s earnings leaderboard, in the last seven days, three protocols had revenue above $1 million. Ethereum led the on-chain earnings with over $8.5 million total, a sign of strong post-Merge fundamentals.
OpenSea was a distant second place to Ethereum, earning $1.5 million, while nine protocols and DeFi platforms earned more than $100,000.
Decentralized perpetual exchanges see increased trading volume
Combined with the migration away from centralized exchanges (CEXs), the volatile crypto market has users trading in record numbers.
According to data from Token Terminal, the daily trading volume of perpetual exchanges reached $5 billion, which is the highest daily trading volume since the LUNA and TerraUSD (UST) meltdown in May 2022.
