Ethereum miners earned record-breaking commissions in a day 42 763 ETH

Ethereum miners 17 September earned at the commissions 42 763 ETH, equivalent $16 Milln at the current course, Due to the growth of the number of transactions against the background of the paper of the Defi applications.

This is due to that, that the daily volume of transactions on the network has grown to 1.4 million, which also broke the previous record in 1.34 million, achieved in January 2018 of the year. Growth in the number of transactions, the size of the commissions and income of miners is associated with the boom of the Defi industry. C 1 by 17 september 2020 years trading on decentralized exchanges (DEX) achieved
$15 billion, And this is noticeably more, than all of August.

More than a third of this volume amounted to auction with the UNI token launched on September 17 to control the Uniswap protocol. After the release of UNI, the number of transactions awaiting confirmation in the Ethereum temporarily jumped on 30%.

According to Defi Pulse, Currently, the DEFI applications are blocked by crypto assets worth more than more $9 billion, compared to approximately $675 Milln at the beginning of the year. Previously this week Tether moved
USDT worth $1 Tron billion. This is the second similar translation - in August, a similar amount of USDT was moved from the Tron blockchain to Ethereum.

Technical Director Tether Paolo Ardoino (Paolo Ardoino) said, that the exchanges want to have more USDT on the Ethereum, To satisfy the growing demand of Defi users.

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