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May 26, 2023

Top US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Launches Trading Support for Cosmos-Based DeFi Altcoin

By Daily Hodl Staff

Coinbase customers can now trade the Cosmos (ATOM)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) altcoin Osmosis (OSMO).

The top US crypto exchange added support for the altcoin under its “Experimental Label,” a designation it established for riskier, lower liquidity tokens.

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Osmosis is an automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on the Cosmos software development kit (SDK). It aims to enable cross-chain transactions by utilizing inter-blockchain communication (IBC).

Osmosis’ native governance token, OSMO, is trading at around $0.5986 at time of writing. The 110th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down 0.6% in the past 24 hours and more than 2.6% in the past week.

The protocol ranks 12th among all decentralized exchanges (DEXs) with $147.9 million in total value locked (TVL), according to the crypto tracker DeFi Llama.

The TVL of a blockchain represents the total capital held within its smart contracts. TVL is calculated by multiplying the amount of collateral locked into the network by the current value of the assets.

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Coinbase first added OSMO to its listing roadmap last month. It’s not the first major exchange to support the token: Last October, Binance listed the altcoin in its “Innovation Zone,” a dedicated trading space for crypto assets that could be more prone to rapid price swings.

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