Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Show 145% Growth This Past Week

Ethereum data analytics platform, Dune Analytics, has revealed that the week over week trading volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) has increased consistently, with a 145.7% increase since last week. The past week has seen over $74 million worth of P2P trades, with Uniswap and Kyber leading with volumes of $21.8 and $21.2 million respectively.

Decentralized Exchange Volume Surging

The platform includes the six top DEXs for its analysis: Uniswap, Kyber, 0x, Oasis, Idex, and AirSwap, while the platform plans to soon add Bancor’s DEX. It analyzes various aspects of trading, including weekly trading volumes, week over week growth, number of unique traders on the aforementioned platforms, and their respective market shares.

Decentralized exchanges, a relatively recent phenomenon in the cryptocurrency market, are widely considered to be better than their centralized counterparts. Trades occur at a lower fee, and perhaps the greatest benefit is that it is far more secure, as there are no centralized parties holding funds.

A Transitional Year

The advantages of DEXs has likely played a big part in its growth. Besides stablecoins, DEXs have proven to be a noticeable talking point in 2019. While centralized exchanges still account for about 99% of cryptocurrency trading, DEXs have shown respectable growth, as several reports have indicated. The validity of decentralized exchanges as a trading medium is strong enough that even a platform as big as Binance launched its own DEX in March of this year.

That’s not to say that DEXs are not without their challenges. Liquidity is one of the more obvious issues, but this has been changing, as evinced by the data provided by Dune Analytics. Another notable issue is the lack of fiat trading, something that many of the largest exchanges in the world offer, and which is an important feature in order to attract new investors.

Images courtesy of Dune Analytics, Shutterstock.

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