The top projects deployed on Ethereum, ranked by prominence — TVL, token, 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
Flexible vault-based AMM for customizable liquidity pools

dYdX
Decentralized derivatives exchange on its own chain

Lista DAO
Liquid staking and lending with negative rates

Manta Network
Scalable ZK-application platform for Ethereum L2

Taiko
Permissionless Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup

Portal
Onboarding the first billion gamers into Web3.

ssv.network
Decentralized Ethereum staking infrastructure for everyone.

Axelar
Secure cross-chain communication for Web3

Euler Finance
Permissionless lending with customizable vaults

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

Hyperlane
Permissionless interoperability for all blockchains.

Reserve protocol
Create asset-backed currencies for the world

SoSoValue
AI-powered crypto investing made simple

Across Protocol
Fast, capital-efficient cross-chain bridge

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

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

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 and oracle infrastructure