The top Ethereum Ecosystem 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
Mantle Network
Unifying TradFi and DeFi on Ethereum L2
Curve
Efficient stablecoin DEX with deep liquidity
Pendle
Tokenize and trade future yield with precision.
1inch
DeFi ecosystem for efficient trading and liquidity
Paxos
Tokenized physical gold on the blockchain
Compound
Autonomous lending for open finance.
Ether.Fi
Non-custodial liquid restaking for Ethereum.
Balancer
Programmable liquidity for DeFi AMMs
dYdX
Decentralized perpetuals exchange on its own chain
Taiko
Ethereum-equivalent, permissionless ZK-Rollup
Portal
Onboarding the first billion gamers into Web3.
ssv.network
Decentralized Ethereum staking infrastructure for all.
Axelar
Secure cross-chain communication for Web3
Euler Finance
Permissionless lending with customizable vaults
Loopring
defunctHigh-speed zkRollup DEX on Ethereum
Hyperlane
Permissionless interoperability for all blockchains.
Reserve protocol
Create asset-backed currencies for the world
SoSoValue
AI-powered crypto investing made simple
Across Protocol
Optimistic cross-chain bridge with no slippage
Synthetix
CEX-like perpetual futures on Ethereum.
Lombard
Unlocking Bitcoin's potential in DeFi
Securitize
The infrastructure for tokenized capital markets.
Alchemix
Tokenized future yield for your deposits
API3
First-party oracles that pay you back
Puffer Finance
Building infrastructure for autonomous payments
Chainflip
Cross-chain native swaps, no wrapping needed.
Railgun
Private DeFi, fully on-chain.
Badger DAO
Bringing Bitcoin into DeFi
Dolomite
Next-gen money market and DeFi prime brokerage
Ethena
The first crypto-native synthetic dollar
Blur
The NFT marketplace for pro traders
iZUMi Finance
Programmable Liquidity as a Service for DeFi
PancakeSwap
The #1 AMM and yield farm on BNB Chain
SynFutures
Decentralized perpetual futures for any asset
Clearpool
Institutional credit rails for DeFi
Folks Finance
Unified crosschain lending and borrowing platform
Gearbox
Permissionless credit layer for leverage
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 with oracle resolution.
EigenCloud
Verifiable apps powered by restaked ETH
Nexus Mutual
Decentralized insurance for smart contract risks
BIO Protocol
Decentralized science funding and IP ownership
Yield Basis
Impermanent loss-free AMM liquidity for Bitcoin