Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, on Tuesday unveiled investment in high-performance Layer 2 decentralized exchange Aevo. As a result, AEVO price skyrocketed over 10% in the last 24 hours, with a major boost in price and trading volumes coming after the announcement.

Binance Labs Reveals Investment in Crypto Derivatives DEX Aevo

In an official blog on May 21, Binance Labs said it has invested in Aevo, a crypto derivatives decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the OP Stack.

It offers perpetual trading, pre-launch futures, and options through a single margin account. Aevo on-chain settlement happens on Ethereum and uses Celestia as a high-throughput DA layer for scalability. Aevo is a rebrand of Ribbon Finance and is backed by crypto leaders such as Paradigm, Dragonfly, Pantera Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.

DAO committees will roll out initiatives for incentives, token liquidity, and community growth to bring more users and liquidity to the platform. Aevo also plans to launch vault strategies, yield products, and Aevo staking in the future. In addition, it will allow permissionless dApps deployment on Aevo L2 to leverage its growing user base and unique features.

“Year-to-date, Aevo has done more than $80 billion in derivatives volume and generated over $30m in fees with an average of around 50,000 monthly active users (MAU) on the platform,” said Binance Labs.

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Aevo Price Jumps 10%

Traders reacted immediately to the announcement and Aevo price jumped 10% in the past 24 hours. The price is currently trading at $0.897, with a 24-hour low and high of $0.8203 and $0.935, respectively. Furthermore, the trading volume has increased by 150% in the last 24 hours, indicating a rise in interest among traders.

Total AEVO futures open interest jumped more than 7% in last 4 hours, with a further rise in trading in the past hour. Aevo futures OI climbed nearly 14% on crypto exchange Binance in the last four hours. Traders are almost balanced on both the sell and buy sides, suggesting possibilities of pullback.

However, Aevo token unlock event has finished and whales are likely to buy it once again. It will further push AEVO price upwards.

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Filed under: News - @ May 21, 2024 4:17 pm