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DeFi

DeFi replaces the intermediary with a contract that anyone can read and nobody can quietly change. Lending, market making and derivatives all work roughly as they do elsewhere — the difference is that the rulebook is public and the collateral is visible.

Most DeFi tokens are governance tokens: they vote on parameters, and in some cases receive a share of protocol fees. Whether a token captures value at all is a specific question per protocol, and the answer changes when governance votes to change it.

Total value locked is the headline number and the most misleading one. It counts the same dollar several times when it is deposited, borrowed against and redeposited, and it rises with the price of the collateral rather than with usage.

42 coins

Coins in DeFi, by market capitalisation
#CoinPrice24h7dMarket cap24h volume
9HyperliquidHYPE$79.43▲ +0.3%▼ −7.5%$20.2B$585.4M
13ChainlinkLINK$12.08▲ +0.4%▼ −9.2%$9.04B$249.1M
17StellarXLM$0.1771▼ −0.6%▼ −11.8%$6.23B$119.8M
21UniswapUNI$7.39▲ +1.9%▼ −2.4%$4.62B$418.3M
22DaiDAI$0.9999▲ +0.0%▲ +0.0%$4.52B$17.7M
35EthenaENA$0.1886▼ −0.7%▼ −17.7%$2.53B$387.5M
37QuantQNT$198.87▲ +0.0%▼ −14.1%$2.4B$83.8M
39AaveAAVE$151.10▼ −1.9%▼ −9.2%$2.33B$180.8M
42WorldcoinWLD$0.5095▲ +2.2%▼ −5.8%$1.95B$270.5M
44PolkadotDOT$1.11▼ −0.3%▼ −12.4%$1.89B$101.2M
50SkySKY$0.0709▲ +1.5%▼ −10.5%$1.66B$12.1M
55MorphoMORPHO$2.47▲ +3.4%▼ −0.6%$1.32B$26.8M
64JupiterJUP$0.296▲ +2.2%▼ −17.0%$982.7M$27.6M
66RenderRENDER$1.80▼ −1.6%▼ −15.4%$933.7M$32.1M
67CosmosATOM$1.74▲ +2.1%▼ −6.5%$933.4M$33.2M
71Aerodrome FinanceAERO$0.7816▼ −6.2%▼ −13.6%$784.6M$51.5M
75PancakeSwapCAKE$2.17▼ −1.3%▼ −8.2%$688.9M$31M
78ether.fiETHFI$0.6978▲ +5.0%▼ −3.1%$673.6M$46.9M
82Pyth NetworkPYTH$0.0735▼ −7.2%▼ −17.1%$579.1M$36.4M
85Curve DAO TokenCRV$0.3507▲ +3.1%▼ −3.8%$553.5M$46M
86RaydiumRAY$1.94▲ +7.6%▼ −15.5%$522.8M$44.9M
98PendlePENDLE$2.09▲ +3.0%▼ −3.9%$362.8M$25.9M
105Lido DAOLDO$0.3929▲ +1.4%▼ −9.7%$326M$60.5M
113ConfluxCFX$0.0526▼ −1.8%▼ −16.0%$275.9M$14M
116The GraphGRT$0.0238▼ −0.6%▼ −12.4%$262M$14.7M
121MonadMON$0.0209▼ −3.3%▼ −18.5%$247M$19.9M
122JitoJTO$0.4454▼ −0.1%▼ −19.2%$237.8M$27.2M
126EigenCloudEIGEN$0.2363▼ −2.0%▼ −12.0%$230M$23.4M
129FLOKIFLOKI$0.0000235▼ −0.2%▼ −13.8%$223.8M$24.1M
130CompoundCOMP$21.64▲ +0.5%▼ −14.0%$216.4M$13.9M
153NeoNEO$2.19▼ −1.5%▼ −14.8%$154.6M$3.74M
157VaultaEOS$0.0878▼ −12.7%▼ −13.6%$147M$21.6M
1671inch1INCH$0.0925▼ −0.2%▼ −6.4%$131.9M$5.16M
189dYdXDYDX$0.1147▼ −1.0%▼ −18.1%$97M$3.72M
199GMXGMX$8.32▼ −1.5%▼ −0.6%$88.8M$3.11M
262WormholeW$0.0127▼ −4.6%▼ −52.0%$84.6M$87.1M
283KavaKAVA$0.0708▼ −1.5%▲ +4.1%$76.7M$10.1M
289SynthetixSNX$0.2145▲ +0.3%▼ −13.7%$73.9M$6.93M
293AxelarAXL$0.0581▲ +2.6%▼ −3.8%$72.6M$15.3M
400Rocket PoolRPL$2.09▼ −0.5%▲ +15.6%$47.9M$8.99M
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