$COMP Outpaces Bitcoin and Ether
USD price returns over matched windows ending Oct. 20, 2026, at 1 p.m. ET. Source: CoinGecko; calculations by The Defiant. Endpoint returns, not continuous gains.
The matched price windows end at 1 p.m. ET on Oct. 20 and begin at the same time on Oct. 19, Oct. 13 and Sept. 22, respectively. $COMP traded at $27.38 at the endpoint, compared with $21.51 a day earlier. The TVL comparison uses DefiLlama’s separate daily and latest observations, not those exact price windows.
Institutional Lending in Focus
Compound’s institutional market, which opened in September, offers USDC borrowing against ether and wrapped bitcoin collateral. Borrowing is open to anyone; approval applies to boosted supplier rewards.
The protocol’s market dashboard showed $21.09 million earning yield and $18.10 million borrowed in that market, with utilization at 85.81%.
Governance activity continued alongside the move. Proposal 618, submitted by Ugur Mersin on Oct. 20, seeks to move custody of a fund known as EPCF to the Community Multisig while keeping the fund open. It remained pending with no votes recorded and contains no executable onchain actions.
