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Wrapped BTC Now Holds More Than 1% of Bitcoin’s Circulating Supply

Bitcoin is getting increasingly locked on Ethereum in the form of wrapped BTC, which now holds more than 1% of bitcoin’s total circulating supply. This trend shows how savvy crypto traders are pivoting to salvage or maintain returns even as bitcoin’s price tumbled.

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Wrapped BTC, ETH Coming to Kadena's Decentralized Exchange

Tokensoft is wrapping bitcoin and ether so traders can access them on any one of Kadena’s chains.

Kadena co-founder and President Stuart Popejoy

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Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in December

BitGo “unwrapped” over 11,600 WBTC last month.

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BitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron Blockchain

Nearly 100 DeFi-friendly WBTC have already been minted as TRC-20 tokens on Tron.

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Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Increase as Traders Rotate Capital Out of Cooling DeFi

WBTC burns picked up in November, continuing into December.

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Ethereum Classic Gets DeFi Treatment With Wrapped ETC

Ethereum Classic wants to play in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space of the blockchain from which it contentiously split in 2016.

James Wo, founder and chairman of ETC Labs

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Reach $16.5K; Wrapped BTC Hits $2 Billion

Bitcoin’s price is climbing for the third straight day as more of the cryptocurrency is locked into the Ethereum network.

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Nearly $360M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in October Despite DeFi Cool-Off

October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins.

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Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anchorage

WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage.

Tokensoft CEO Mason Borda

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