Currently, the total value locked (TVL) on Ethereum is more than $50 billion. This makes it by far the largest chain in the DeFi ecosystem. Ethereum has more than double the amount locked than Binance Smart Chain which is currently the second largest chain with just under $25 billion. However TVL is only one way to measure the size of the chain. Nearly 3.5 million transactions take place on BSC everyday. This is nearly three times the total number on Ethereum which only has around 1.2 million transactions per day.
This perfectly demonstrates the ability for different chains to fulfill different tasks more efficiently. Ethereum, as a proof-of-work network and a genuinely decentralized network, holds most of the largest protocols that facilitate lending and borrowing. AAVE is one such example which is comfortably the largest protocol in all of DeFi when measured by TVL. However, the proof-of-work verification model creates complications for Ethereum. Transaction speeds are slow and transaction fees much higher than on BSC. Because of this, BSC can offer a much more efficient product in terms of trading and also potentially has an edge over Ethereum in regards to staking capital in liquidity pools.
Transactions on Ethereum can regularly cost more than $100. On the other hand, it is rare that a BSC transaction will surpass even $0.25. These low fees have no doubt contributed to BSC’s rise more than any other feature. Simply put, Ethereum is completely unsuitable for high intensity trading for the average retail investor.
For developers BSC can also offer much faster transactions. This is a feature that will particularly appeal to DeFi developers looking to create protocols that require many transactions to function.
Comparing and contrasting a DEX from each chain is the best way to illustrate the differences between the chains. SushiSwap is a very popular DEX on the Ethereum chain whereas CoinSwap Space is a new DEX that operates on BSC. Both of these chains provide a myriad of different DeFi options allowing users to yield farm and stake their crypto tokens. The goal of both of these DEXes is to challenge the leading DEX on their blockchain (UniSwap on Ethereum and PancakeSwap on BSC).
Perhaps the biggest difference between these two DEXes and perhaps the difference that is most significant to users is the fees. To use SushiSwap, a user must pay fees on the Ethereum network which, as noted, regularly leads to fees above $100 regularly. CoinSwap on the other hand, have low fees even relative to other BSC DEXes, being able to offer transactions for less than $0.20.
Low transaction fees on BSC mean that CoinSwap can offer many different features that make DeFi simple. Using the mass harvest function, users can send all of the returns across all of their liquidity pools and staked tokens straight to their wallet. No matter how many different pools a user has investments in on CoinSwap, all of the returns can be harvested in just a few simple clicks. Because of the inefficiencies of Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work model, packaging so many different transactions is much more difficult.
Another key feature of BSC, especially moving forward, is that it was built to facilitate interoperability. CoinSwap is just a couple of months old but already the team envisages incorporating different blockchains as part of their DEX. This is possible because BSC is built with dual chain architecture. This will be a huge asset to any protocol built on BSC if DeFi does indeed develop into a multi-chain ecosystem. The interoperability of BSC means that DeFi can be supported however it develops.
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Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
