Institutional coin appears to be flowing into the decentralized finance sector, with Yearn.finance'due south YFI amidst the top beneficiaries.

According to crypto market place data aggregator IntoTheBlock, on-concatenation transactions of $100,000 or higher have increased by 282% over the past week — including almost $134 million worth of activity on Tuesday lonely.

Volume of on-chain YFI transactions exceeding $100,000 in value: IntoTheBlock

According to crypto market assay firm Messari, YFI was the summit-performing DeFi asset of the past week, followed by yAxis' YAX with a 78% gain, Loopring'southward LRC with 50%, and Akropolis' AKRO and Curve's CRV with 49% each. However, the DeFi turnaround is very recent, and only 11 of 41 DeFi tokens tracked by Messari are up over the last 30 days, while 22 have posted price gains for the by 12 months.

On Thursday, Messari identified that Polychain Capital had emerged as the 10th-largest YFI holder despite property zero YFI tokens until October. Polychain currently controls 470 YFI, or ane.six% of the token'south supply.

Polychain is accumulating several other acme DeFi tokens including Chemical compound's COMP, Maker's MKR, Filecoin's FIL, Orchid'due south OXT and 0x's ZRX.

While YFI was among the markets hardest past DeFi'south sectorwide pull-back from mid-September through early November — shedding lxxx% of its value from roughly $43,300 on Sep. xiii to $viii,550 on Nov. 6 — YFI has rebounded by more than 95% over the past week to currently trade for $16,600.

Last month, Crypto.com published the findings from a survey of 411 "decision-makers" representing traditional financial institutions familiar with DeFi, indicating meaning investment into the sector from mainstream entities.

Of the respondents, 58% limited concern that they "will lose a competitive advantage" if they fail to engage with DeFi products, and 61%  stand for companies that are "because adopting DeFi as a way to execute financial services with smart contracts." 35% of respondents state they are currently collaborating with an existing DeFi platform or service.

Notwithstanding, the survey also finds that 61% of respondents believe the lack of regulatory oversight for DeFi is a major challenge to the sector'due south growth.