The top Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects, ranked by prominence — TVL, market cap, funding, and on-chain activity.

Uniswap
Decentralized token swapping and governance

Aave
Decentralized lending and borrowing protocol

Lido
Liquid staking for Ethereum and Polygon

Ondo Finance
Democratizing institutional finance with tokenized assets

Morpho
Open, efficient, trustless lending for everyone

Curve
Efficient stablecoin DEX with deep liquidity

Pendle
Tokenize and trade future yield with precision.

1inch
DeFi ecosystem for efficient trading and liquidity

Compound
Autonomous lending for open finance.

Ether.Fi
Non-custodial liquid restaking for Ethereum.

Orca
The most user-friendly DEX on Solana

Balancer
Flexible vault-based AMM for customizable liquidity pools

dYdX
Decentralized derivatives exchange on its own chain

Drift
Trade perps, predict markets, stake SOL.

Lista DAO
Liquid staking and lending with negative rates

ssv.network
Decentralized Ethereum staking infrastructure for everyone.

Jito
First liquid staking with MEV rewards on Solana

Loopring
defunctHigh-speed, low-cost DEX on Ethereum L2

Reserve protocol
Create asset-backed currencies for the world

SoSoValue
AI-powered crypto investing made simple

Synthetix
CEX-like perpetual futures on Ethereum.

Lombard
Unlocking Bitcoin's potential in DeFi

Alchemix
Tokenized future yield for your deposits

API3
First-party oracles that pay you back

NAVI Protocol
No.1 Liquidity Protocol on Sui

Chainflip
Cross-chain native swaps, no wrapping needed.

Bluefin
Your home for onchain finance on Sui

Solayer
Hardware-accelerated blockchain for next-gen apps

Badger DAO
Bringing Bitcoin into DeFi

Thala
Aptos-native DeFi with stablecoin and AMM

Dolomite
Next-gen money market and DeFi prime brokerage

Ethena
The first crypto-native synthetic dollar

Momentum
Sustainable value creation through aligned incentives.

Scallop
Next Generation Money Market on Sui

Suilend
Transparent lending and borrowing on Sui.

Flying Tulip
Custom lending & perps across Sonic and Ethereum

iZUMi Finance
Programmable Liquidity as a Service for DeFi

Superform
The onchain wealth app for optimal yields

PancakeSwap
The #1 AMM and yield farm on BNB Chain

SynFutures
Decentralized perpetual futures for any asset

Clearpool
Institutional credit rails for DeFi

Babylon
Restake Bitcoin, earn yields securely.

Folks Finance
Unified crosschain lending and borrowing platform

Gearbox
Permissionless credit layer for leverage

Avantis
Largest RWA perps DEX on Base

Bedrock
Governance and yield engine for Bitcoin capital

StakeStone
One-stop staking protocol for omnichain LST liquidity.

usd.ai
Yield-bearing synthetic dollar for AI compute financing

Augur
Decentralized prediction markets and oracle infrastructure

Nexus Mutual
Decentralized insurance for smart contract risks