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DeFi Coins Outperform Bitcoin, Ether as Traders Pare Bets on Jumbo Fed Rate Hike

While cryptocurrency lending platform Aave’s native coin AAVE was up 15% at $91, decentralized exchange Uniswap’s UNI traded at $7, representing a 13% gain, CoinDesk data shows. Bitcoin (BTC), the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, changed hands at $20,660, up 3.5%, while Ethereum’s ether (ETH) token was priced at $1,200, up 8%. Other notable gainers were programmable blockchain Solana’s SOL cryptocurrency, privacy-focused coin monero, Polygon’s MATIC, cosmos and algorand.

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