{"id":126347,"date":"2025-04-02T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126347"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:17:13","slug":"curve-finance-clocks-35b-trading-volume-in-q1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126347","title":{"rendered":"Curve Finance clocks $35B trading volume in Q1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCurve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told Cointelegraph.\u00a0<br \/>\nTrading volumes increased more than 13% from the first quarter of 2024, largely due to a surge in transactions, from around 1.8 million to some 5.5 million in Q1 2025, Curve said.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe strong Q1 volumes come amid overall declines in the cryptocurrency market, with the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies dropping by more than 20% in the year-to-date as of March 31, according to data from CoinGecko.<br \/>\nCurve\u2019s total value locked (TVL) over time. Source: DefiLlamaRelated:\u00a0Curve Finance launches \u2018Savings crvUSD\u2019 yield-bearing stablecoin<br \/>\nChanging DeFi Landscape<br \/>\nLaunched in 2020, Curve has taken numerous steps in the past year to keep pace with the changing decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape.<br \/>\nIn June 2024, Curve adopted crvUSD, its stablecoin, for fee distribution to tokenholders, replacing an older model that paid holders in shares of the 3crv liquidity pool.<br \/>\nIn November, Curve partnered with Elixir, a blockchain network, to help onboard BlackRock\u2019s tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, to DeFi.\u00a0<br \/>\nBy the end of 2025, Curve plans to consolidate its lending markets into a single user interface and provide borrowers with more time to close positions before they are liquidated, it told Cointelegraph.\u00a0<br \/>\nCurve founder Michael Egorov said in March that he expects many decentralized exchanges (DEXs) to evolve into bespoke platforms for stablecoins pegged to various currency denominations.\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Exchanges between stablecoins of different denominations like the euro, US dollar, and others are not yet properly solved. How to provide liquidity without losing money, but while earning a lot of money, is kind of an open question that I think will be solved soon,\u201d Egorov said.<br \/>\nDespite the rise in transactions, the total value locked (TVL) on Curve\u2019s platform is approximately $1.8 billion as of April 2, according to data from DefILlama, down from highs of roughly $2.5 billion at the start of the year.<br \/>\nCurve\u2019s native token, Curve DAO (CRV), has a market capitalization of approximately $640 million at this writing, marking a more than 40% decline in the year-to-date, according to data from Cointelegraph.<br \/>\nRelated:\u00a0BTC miners adopted \u2018treasury strategy,\u2019 diversified business in 2024: Report<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/curve-finance-clocks-record-trading-volume-q1-2025?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCurve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}