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While Bitcoin and Ethereum prices go into a brief lull, Chainlink, Aave and 0x have seen an uptick thanks to massive accumulation by whales

DeFi tokens like Compound’s COMP and Balancer’s BAL over the past week have each seen huge price surges to make decentralized finance and yield farming the new craze among Ethereum-based tokens.

However, data also shows that a spike in the prices of several ERC-20 tokens is aided by a massive accumulation spree by whales.

According to analytics platform, Santiment; Aave, Chainlink and 0x prices have all increased over the past several weeks, thanks to whale activity.

As per the platform’s metric, LEND/USD has gained more than 130% in June, ZRX/USD is currently more than 10% up, while LINK/USD has outperformed most major altcoins.

ZRX/USD price

ZRX is trading at $0.338 against the US dollar, just a percentage point lower on the day.

ZRX/USD recently saw its daily on-chain transaction volume spiked to a new all-time high at $104 million (that’s 300,334,000 tokens traded on the day).

Prices currently trade above the $0.25-$0.30 level that has been the key resistance area. There’s a bullish case if prices break resistance at $0.35 to open up $0.50. In the past 24 hours, about $17.5 million worth of the ERC-20 token have been traded.

ZRX/USD 1-day price chart. Source: TradingView

LINK/USD price

Data from Santiment indicates that Chainlink whales have increased by 5% over the past week. About 15 more addresses now hold 100,000 to 1,000,000 LINK tokens.

For Chainlink, large buyers could be corporations that seek to benefit from the blockchain-based technology that allows users to merge data from legacy databases with emerging systems.

Graph showing the LINK/USD price versus increased whale activity.

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