尽管去中心化金融（DeFi） CoinGecko 表示，市场在第二季度市值下降了 74.6%，但用户活动仍保持相对弹性。
在加密货币数据聚合器周三发布的一份报告中，CoinGecko报告 DeFi 的整体市值在第二季度从 1.42 亿美元下降到 3600 万美元，这主要是由于泰拉的崩溃 及其稳定币 TerraUSD Classic (USTC) 于 5 月发行。
CoinGecko 还指出DeFi 漏洞利用的增加 在本季度导致下降，包括逆向金融和 Rari ，分别遭受了 120 万美元和 1100 万美元的黑客攻击：
“由于投资者对这些被黑客攻击的协议失去信心，这些攻击对代币价格产生了负面影响。”
然而，CoinGecko 还指出，虽然链上活动放缓，但 DeFi 行业已设法留住其大部分日常活跃用户。
它指出，DeFi 的每日活跃用户数量在第二季度仅下降了 34.5%，从 50,000 人减少到 30,000 人，并补充说还有多个实例导致 DeFi 活动激增。
Terra 崩盘后的 5 月出现了第一次飙升，导致用户大量转向 Curve Finance 和 Uniswap 出售他们掉落的 Terra（官 ) 和中科大。
同样，据 CoinGecko 称，6 月份 DeFi 用户活动再次激增，当时加密货币借贷平台 Celsius 以财务困难为由实施了提款限制。摄氏申请破产 周三：
“在中心化实体失败的两次事件中，用户蜂拥而至享受 DeFi 的无许可性质。”
该报告还发现，非同质化代币 (NFT) 的交易量从 2021 年 6 月的峰值下降了 26.2%，至本季度的 76 亿美元，这主要是由于以太坊网络上提供的 NFT 交易量下降所致。
2022 年 6 月也出现了 12 个月以来的最低交易量，NFT 交易量达到 8.3 亿美元，恰逢NFT 的底价 .
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