PancakeSwap or Uniswap: who decides the DeFi race?


The horrific transaction fees of the Ethereum Blockchain tilt the gap on the DeFi market in favor of the Binance Smart Chain. Last but not least, the native currency of the largest BSC platform PancakeSwap benefits from this.

A power struggle is raging at the DeFi market. While Ethereum was able to concentrate most of its shares on itself until a few months ago, the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) is gradually gaining the upper hand. The increasing transaction costs of the competition play into the cards for BSC growth. The rise in Ethereum gas fees has caused many users to switch to the Binance Smart Chain. The DeFi trench battle between Ethereum and Binance is also a distribution battle between the largest trading platforms in each case. PancakeSwap is gradually taking over the pole position, which is reflected in the price performance of the native currency CAKE. The CAKE price has risen 138 percent in the past 30 days and only hit a new record high of $ 43.96 on April 30th.


The rapid growth of PancakeSwap

Pankaceswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) through which BEP-20 tokens can be exchanged. In particular, the numerous passive sources of income such as staking and yield farming opportunities have favored the upswing of the platform in recent months. As with Uniswap, users receive returns on the liquidity made available – only at significantly lower fees and with faster transactions.

With just under 60,000 users, PancakeSwap is by far the largest platform on the Binance Smart Chain. At the beginning of the year, the average number of users was 8,000. Uniswap has 12,000 more users. In terms of network activities, PancakeSwap has already overtaken the Ethereum competition.

On April 21, the Binance Smart Chain posted a record high of over 9.1 million transactions, with PancakeSwap accounting for around 20 percent of the total. The number of daily transactions was at DEX last at 2 million.

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In comparison: The record high of all Ethereum transactions was loud Etherscan on April 22nd to 1.5 million. Meanwhile, Uniswap is coming up currently 247,000 Transactions per day. The 24-hour trading volume at PancakeSwap also exceeds that of Uniswap by almost 30 million US dollars. With a total value of 10.4 billion US dollars, the Total Value Locked (TVL) is also around 2 billion US dollars above the TVL of Uniswap. In view of these developments, the CAKE price development is not surprising. As long as the gas fees of the Ethereum Blockchain are in the critical area, the growth trend of PancakeSwap should continue to accelerate.

DEX or non-DEX, that is the question

One downer, however, remains: In contrast to the Ethereum Blockchain, the Binance Smart Chain is highly centralized in the hands of the world’s largest crypto exchange. This does not have to mean any direct disadvantages for users. But the rise of Binance is accompanied by an increasing influence on the market, which could also be noticeable in the statistics on PancakeSwap.

Critical voices are increasing and doubts about the official figures. That alone a smart contract for barely 2 million transactions allegedly responsible, has sparked speculation about whether the transactions might have been generated by a bot to artificially increase the volume of PancakeSwap.

However, the suspicion could not be proven. According to on-chain evaluations, Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX and Alameda Research, did grantedthat the “BSC mostly consists of real volume”, but he is not “certain” either.

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