The Market Is Still Dominated By Centralized Exchanges Despite The Increase In DEX

Despite the decentralized crypto exchanges gaining popularity in 2018, their centralized opponents still seem to be controlling the majority of the market and the majority of the global industry trade volumes. In today’s crypto news we are looking into a Cryptocurrency Exchange Annual Report from the research organization TokenInsight to find out more.

According to the report, more than 400 global crypto exchanges were compared and it shows that DEX is only a 19 percent piece of the global exchange ecosystem. The trading volume on decentralized crypto exchanges is less than 1 percent of those on centralized ones.

Though DEX platforms gained a lot in 2018, the growth was mainly because of the developments in the trading protocols and improved infrastructure but centralized ones are still the favorite among customers.

Also, the report notes that centralized platforms have challenges such as opaque trading rules and the problems that come up with it but also the fund storage is not as transparent as the DEX offer.

Despite the low adoption DEX rates, most of the exchanges that are based on Ethereum and Eos show significant spikes in transaction volumes especially in Q1 in 2018. During that time, the volumes increased by almost 200 percent where a single day volume exceeded $400 million.

After the third quarter of 2018, DEX trading volumes decreased mainly because of the bear market. Even the bear market trend heavily impacted the entire crypto ecosystem, decentralized exchanges seem to be more sensitive than centralized ones.