The top Governance 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

Curve
Efficient stablecoin DEX with deep liquidity

1inch
DeFi ecosystem for efficient trading and liquidity

Compound
Autonomous lending for open finance.

Ether.Fi
Non-custodial liquid restaking for Ethereum.

Balancer
Flexible vault-based AMM for customizable liquidity pools

dYdX
Decentralized derivatives exchange on its own chain

Drift
Trade perps, predict markets, stake SOL.

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

Synthetix
CEX-like perpetual futures on Ethereum.

Alchemix
Tokenized future yield for your deposits

API3
First-party oracles that pay you back

Railgun
Private DeFi, fully on-chain.

Badger DAO
Bringing Bitcoin into DeFi

Stride
Multichain liquid staking for Cosmos.

Ethena
The first crypto-native synthetic dollar

PancakeSwap
The #1 AMM and yield farm on BNB Chain

Bedrock
Governance and yield engine for Bitcoin capital

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

Bitway
Yield, govern, and earn with Bitway

Kinetiq
Liquid staking for Hyperliquid, powered by StakeHub

Mezo
Your Bitcoin, your bank, no middlemen.

PoolTogether
Save now. Win later. Lose never.

Tranchess
defunctYield enhancing asset tracker with varied risk-return

SushiSwap
The most multi-chain decentralized exchange

MetaDAO
Let the markets decide governance.

Rocket Pool
Ethereum's most decentralized liquid staking protocol

Usual
Stablecoin and yield protocol backed by real-world assets

Internet Computer / Dfinity
Sovereign cloud for AI and agentic organizations

Wormhole
Secure cross-chain messaging for any blockchain.

Opium
Universal decentralized derivatives protocol

Yearn Finance
Automated yield optimization for DeFi investors

Convex Finance
Maximize Curve yields with boosted rewards

Dego Finance
Cross-chain NFT+DeFi infrastructure for the open ecosystem

Beefy Finance
Auto-compound your crypto for higher yields

Router Protocol
Unified cross-chain liquidity and communication layer

Spark
Onchain capital allocator for scalable liquidity and yield.

NYM
Privacy infrastructure for metadata protection

Qtum
Hybrid blockchain merging Bitcoin security with Ethereum smart contracts

Audius
Decentralized music streaming owned by artists and fans

Aave V2
Decentralized lending and borrowing protocol

0x
Open-source DEX infrastructure for multi-chain swaps

Fetch.ai
Decentralized AI agents for a smarter world

ChainGPT
AI infrastructure and launchpads for Web3

Minswap
The best liquidity provider on Cardano

mETH Protocol
Composable liquid staking, powered by Mantle.

Gaia
Verifiable decentralized AI for sovereign agents

pNetwork
The heartbeat of cross-chain composability.