The top Optimism 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

Curve
Efficient stablecoin DEX with deep liquidity

Pendle
Tokenize and trade future yield with precision.

Balancer
Flexible vault-based AMM for customizable liquidity pools

Axelar
Secure cross-chain communication for Web3

Hyperlane
Permissionless interoperability for all blockchains.

Across Protocol
Fast, capital-efficient cross-chain bridge

Synthetix
CEX-like perpetual futures on Ethereum.

Ethena
The first crypto-native synthetic dollar

Synapse
Universal cross-chain liquidity and messaging network

PoolTogether
Save now. Win later. Lose never.

Boson Protocol
Agentic commerce infrastructure for everything

BOB
Multi-chain stablecoin with optional privacy

Chainlink
The industry-standard decentralized oracle network

Perpetual Protocol
Decentralized perpetual contracts for every asset.

Venus
Decentralized lending with borderless stablecoins.

Frax
The first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin

Yearn Finance
Automated yield optimization for DeFi investors

Vee Finance
Bridging traditional finance and DeFi lending

Ocean Protocol
Decentralized data and compute marketplace for AI

Velodrome Finance
Trading and liquidity marketplace on Optimism

Sweatcoin
Earn crypto with every step you take

Layer3
Omnichain identity, incentives, and governance layer

Gauntlet
Risk-adjusted DeFi yields for institutional capital

Persistence
The BTCFi Liquidity Hub for seamless Bitcoin swaps

Ankr
Web3 infrastructure for developers, dapps, and stakers.

Extra Finance
Leveraged yield farming & lending protocol on Optimism

Metronome
First autonomous cross-chain cryptocurrency

Derive
Programmable onchain options and perps exchange

Frankencoin
Oracle-free Swiss franc stablecoin with yield

Tellor
Decentralized oracle for off-chain data

Velora
Crosschain intent-based trading, gasless and MEV-protected.

Stargate Finance
Unified liquidity bridge with instant finality

Shutter
Encrypt the mempool for fair moves.

Kromatika
Limit orders, zero fees, no slippage.

Overtime
Decentralized sportsbook with onchain trust and liquidity

SPECTRA
Secure your future yield at a fixed rate.

WAGMI
We Are Gonna Make It

Cyber
The L2 for social applications

Thales
Liquidity and settlement for prediction markets.

Kyber Network
The ultimate DEX aggregator and liquidity protocol

BarnBridge
defunctTokenizing risk across DeFi platforms.

Threshold Network
Decentralized threshold crypto for Bitcoin DeFi

Orderly Network
Permissionless liquidity layer for Web3 trading

vana
Turn your data into your assets

Navigator Exchange
Leading Perp DEX on Sonic

Olympus
Programmable central bank for DeFi

Cartesi
Build appchain rollups with any code