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CRYPTO / DEFI

Money in DeFi.

How much money is locked in decentralized finance, on which chains and protocols, how many stablecoins circulate, DEX volumes and what stablecoins earn. DefiLlama data, every hour.

Total value locked$87.82 B−3.08% over 7 days
Stablecoin supply$303.61 B−0.66% over 7 days
DEX volume, 24h$5.56 B+10.34% vs the day before
Below the TVL record−50.5%record $177.49 B, Nov 9 2021
01 / TVL

How much money is locked in DeFi

TVL is the value of all coins sitting in DeFi smart contracts: lending, staking, DEX pools and bridges. It rises when money comes in or coins get pricier, and falls on withdrawals and price drops.

$159.99 B$135.74 B$111.48 B$87.22 B$62.96 B■ high $154.80 B■ low $68.16 BOct 27, 2025Oct 26, 2026

Over a week −3.08%, over a month −8.71%, over a year −41.26%.

Source: DefiLlama · updated

02 / Chains

Where DeFi money lives

Each chain's share of total TVL and how it changed over a week.

Ethereum
54.7%
Base
6.8%
Solana
6.5%
BSC
6.3%
Tron
6.2%
Bitcoin
4.8%
Hyperliquid L1
2.7%
Arbitrum
1.7%
ChainTVL7d30d
Ethereumshare 54.7%$48.18 B−2.80%−9.81%
Baseshare 6.8%$5.96 B−3.36%−4.62%
Solanashare 6.5%$5.73 B−2.05%−13.25%
BSCshare 6.3%$5.50 B−7.17%−6.20%
Tronshare 6.2%$5.41 B−2.83%−4.61%
Bitcoinshare 4.8%$4.26 B−3.25%−4.95%
Hyperliquid L1share 2.7%$2.39 B−3.25%−12.74%
Arbitrumshare 1.7%$1.47 B+4.33%+1.44%
Robinhood Chainshare 1.3%$1.13 B−0.09%+10.72%
Monadshare 1.1%$981.5 M+0.61%−3.37%
Polygonshare 0.8%$696.1 M+2.74%−11.51%
Arcshare 0.7%$628.2 M+18.92%+24.81%

Source: DefiLlama · updated

03 / Protocols

The largest protocols

By TVL. The category tells what a protocol does: lending, liquid staking, bridge, DEX.

ProtocolTVL24h7d
LidoLiquid Staking · 5 chains$22.30 B−1.22%−4.64%
LayerZero V2Bridge · 91 chains$16.67 B−1.15%+33.11%
Aave V3Lending · 21 chains$16.37 B−1.11%−3.57%
SSV NetworkStaking Pool$12.04 B−1.45%−4.64%
Morpho BlueLending · 45 chains$11.21 B+0.42%+0.95%
WBTCBridge$9.26 B−1.00%−3.34%
Binance staked ETHLiquid Staking · 2 chains$8.59 B−1.44%−4.58%
Coinbase BridgeBridge · 5 chains$7.92 B−0.30%−1.54%
Hyperliquid BridgeBridge · 2 chains$6.58 B−0.69%−2.74%
EigenCloudRestaking$5.94 B−1.33%−4.64%
Binance BitcoinBridge$5.42 B−0.98%−3.34%
Sky LendingCDP$5.35 B−2.49%−6.47%
SparkLendLending · 2 chains$4.88 B−1.06%−3.44%
Ethena USDeBasis Trading$4.59 B+0.12%−1.99%
ether.fi StakeLiquid Staking · 6 chains$4.43 B−0.64%−4.29%
JustLend V1Lending$3.59 B−0.97%−3.00%
JustLend sTRXLiquid Staking$3.26 B+0.43%−0.21%
Babylon ProtocolRestaking$3.26 B−0.94%−3.12%
Arbitrum BridgeCanonical Bridge$3.24 B−0.99%−7.00%
USDT0Bridge$3.22 B+0.60%+3.36%

Source: DefiLlama · updated

04 / Stablecoins

The market's dry powder

Dollar stablecoins total $303.61 B: −0.66% over a week, −0.79% over a month. Growing supply usually means new money is coming into crypto.

CoinSupply7dPrice
USDTTether · cash and bonds$182.35 B−0.61%$0.999
USDCUSD Coin · cash and bonds$71.58 B−1.40%$1.000
USDSSky Dollar · crypto$6.82 B−0.32%$1.000
DAIDai · crypto$4.74 B+0.43%$1.000
USDeEthena USDe · crypto$4.59 B−1.97%$0.999
USD1World Liberty Financial USD · cash and bonds$3.95 B−2.31%$0.999
USDGGlobal Dollar · cash and bonds$3.08 B+1.74%$1.000
PYUSDPayPal USD · cash and bonds$2.92 B+3.39%$1.000
RLUSDRipple USD · cash and bonds$2.51 B+3.61%$1.000
BUIDLBlackRock USD · cash and bonds$2.17 B−0.23%$1.000

Source: DefiLlama · updated

05 / DEX

Where people trade without a middleman

Spot decentralized exchange volume: $5.56 B in 24 hours (+10.34% vs the day before), $44.04 B over a week (−12.31% vs the week before).

DEXVolume 24h24h
Uniswap V47d $6.33 B$891.6 M+35.76%
Uniswap V37d $6.34 B$817.6 M+11.32%
PancakeSwap AMM V37d $3.74 B$446.1 M−29.93%
Aero Slipstream7d $1.16 B$442.9 M+44.62%
PumpSwap7d $1.78 B$310.9 M+175.83%
Manifest Trade7d $877.5 M$205.1 M+53.42%
Orca DEX7d $1.49 B$192.7 M+23.97%
BisonFi7d $2.03 B$184.8 M−15.74%
Metric V17d $1.39 B$182.5 M+46.09%
PancakeSwap Infinity7d $1.90 B$142.5 M−13.68%

Source: DefiLlama · updated

06 / Yields

What stablecoins earn

The biggest stablecoin pools without impermanent-loss risk, from $50M. These are not the highest rates but where most of the money sits. The rate moves daily, and the risk of a hack or a depeg never goes away.

PoolAPYTVL
SUSDSSky Lending · Ethereum3.80%30d: 3.73%$4.85 B
USDCMaple · Ethereum5.08%30d: 5.18%$2.61 B
SUSDEEthena Usde · Ethereum5.08%30d: 4.98%$1.19 B
USDTMaple · Ethereum4.95%30d: 5.33%$744.0 M
USDGMaple · Ethereum4.81%30d: 4.97%$677.0 M
USDTSpark Savings · Ethereum3.75%30d: 3.68%$648.0 M
USDEAave V3 · Plasma0.23%30d: 0.27%$607.1 M
USDSSparklend · Ethereum3.77%30d: 4.41%, rewards 3.77%$557.0 M
SUSDAIUsd Ai · Arbitrum6.25%30d: 6.77%$554.0 M
STEAKUSDGMorpho Blue · Robinhood Chain6.93%30d: 7.05%, rewards 3.17%$544.3 M
USTBInvesco Ustb · Ethereum3.48%30d: 3.56%$522.1 M
BUSD0Usual Usd0 · Ethereum5.04%30d: 5.60%, rewards 5.04%$500.7 M

Not investment advice. We have not audited these protocols and are not paid by them.

Source: DefiLlama · updated

FAQ

Quick answers

What is DeFi?

Decentralized finance: loans, coin swaps and yield through smart contracts on a blockchain, with no bank or exchange in the middle. You hold the keys to your money, and you also own your mistakes.

What does TVL show?

Total value locked: how many dollars sit in DeFi smart contracts. It is the main gauge of the market's size, but it also tracks coin prices: when ether falls, TVL falls even if nobody withdrew anything.

Why watch stablecoins?

Stablecoins are the dollars inside crypto. When their supply grows, the market has money to buy with; when it shrinks, money is leaving. A price well below $1 means the coin has lost its peg.

Where is the data from?

From the open API of DefiLlama, the largest independent DeFi data aggregator. We refresh it every hour.

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