The seesaw price action that the crypto market is known for is back on full display today as the modest gains Bitcoin (BTC) achieved over the weekend quickly disintegrated in the early market moves as the digital asset followed Tesla stock into the red. Fortunately, it's not all bad news for altcoin traders and this week kicked off with Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s Altseason Indicator suggesting that there is a 44% chance that an altseason is underway. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers over the past 24-hours were UMA (UMA), WINk (WIN) and Keep3rV1 (KP3R). …

Decentralized finance has exploded in popularity over the past year and many analysts have pointed to the 2020 'summer of DeFi' as the primary catalyst for the rallies seen in Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC). In the beginning, investors were able to easily secure 4-digit annual percentage yield (APY) on an almost endless number of attractively priced assets on Uniswap but the increased activity on the Etheruem network eventually led to unsustainable spikes in gas fees and serious network congestion. These skyrocketing gas fees have priced out the average retail investor from participating in even the simplest protocol interactions like …