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August 29, 2020

Crypto Newbie Shatters Bitcoin’s (BTC) All-Time High, Hits Staggering $24,580

By Daily Hodl Staff

A new crypto asset just ripped past Bitcoin’s all-time high.

YFI, the governance token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn.Finance, is now $24,580 – up 40% in the last 24 hours alone.

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The coin is now worth significantly more than than BTC’s high-water mark of $20,089 set on December 17th, 2017.

YFI launched on July 18th of this year and has surged a staggering 71,084% in just over a month, according to CoinGecko. Crypto analyst Josh Rager says the coin is just getting started.

The platform offers a number of functions for DeFi investors, allowing them to move assets between various liquidity pools and identify the best yields.

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It has an extremely low supply cap of just 29,962 coins, compared to Bitcoin’s current circulating supply of just over 18.4 million.

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