Popular DeFi Aplications
Leading
- Aave – an open source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits & borrow assets
- Akropolis – an under collateralized lending protocol aiming at DeFi yield optimisation and interest-rate sharing
- bZx – a decentralized protocol that enables lending and borrowing for margin trading
- Centrifuge – an on-chain risk assessment and pooling infrastructure for borrowing against illiquid assets such as invoices, real estate, and commodities.
- Compound – an open-source money market protocol on Ethereum that lets users lend or borrow assets against collateral
- Cream.Finance – a Compound based open-source lending platform
- DeFiner – a globally available, decentralized lending marketplace to securely borrow and lend digital assets through smart-contracts
- Fortube – an open financial platform providing a wide range of financial services including lending, banking and stablecoins
- Kava – a lending platform that accepts a wide range of digital assets for collateral as well as lending & borrowing
- Maker – a decentralized credit platform on Ethereum that supports Dai, a stablecoin whose value is pegged to USD and backed by digital assets as collateral
- Notional – a fixed rate & term financing protocol using novel interest rate curves to reduce slippage
- Rari Capital – a yield farming protocol that rebalances users holdings across a series of DeFi protocols
- Reflexer – a non pegged stable assets protocol managed by on-chain, governance minimized, smart contract controllers
- Swap Rate – a DeFi interest rate swap tool built on the Opium protocol
- Vesper – a DeFi ecosystem and growth engine for crypto assets, providing a suite of yield-generating products
- Warp.finance – a DeFi platform that allows users to deposit LP tokens and take out stablecoin loans against them
- WePiggy – an open source, non-custodial crypto asset lending market protocol
Trading
- Augur – a decentralized oracle and peer-to-peer protocol for prediction markets on Ethereum that lets anyone create a market around the outcome of any real-world event
- ACO – a decentralized and non-custodial options trading protocol
- AirSwap – a peer-to-peer trading network powered by Ethereum
- Balancer – a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor
- Bancor – a protocol on Ethereum for non-custodial token exchange using pooled liquidity
- Curve – a decentralized exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for extremely efficient stablecoin trading.
- DeversiFi – a high-speed, non-custodial Layer 2 exchange built with STARKs technology, allowing for 9,000+ tps with deep liquidity, low fees, privacy and speed.
- DEX AG – a trading interface that aggregates & delivers the best price across all DEXes
- DEXTF – a decentralised asset management protocol that enables users to hold & trade different digital assets
- Dodo – a capital-efficient on-chain liquidity provider powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm
- dYdX – a non-custodial trading platform on Ethereum geared toward experienced traders
- FutureSwap – a decentralized perpetual futures swapping platform enabling 10x leverage and governed by the community
- Gnosis Protocol – a fully decentralized trading protocol that allows anyone to add any trading token pair
- Hegic – an on-chain peer-to-pool options trading protocol built on Ethereum
- Helena – a smart contract platform with gamified prediction markets
- Idex – a decentralized L2 exchange combining the performance and speed of centralized exchanges with the security of a DEX.
- Jelly Swap – a peer to peer trading tool across different blockchains using atomic swaps
- KLAYswap – an AMM based DEX built on the Klaytn chain
- KyberSwap – a permissionless cross-chain atomic swap protocol, enabling trading of tokens across different chains
- Leverj – a secure and decentralized high performance plasma based exchange
- YF Link – a community project building multiple DeFi products and services, targeted towards LINK holders, starting with the LinkSwap DEX
- Local Ethereum – a non – custodial peer-to-peer ETH marketplace featuring end to end encryption and on -chain escrow.
- Loopring DEX – a non-custodial Layer 2 DEX built on top of the Looping protocol
- Market Protocol – a protocol on Ethereum which offers tokenized leverage trading of any asset through synthetic pricing
- Materia – an on-chain decentralized exchange based on DFOHub protocol
- MCDEX – a decentralized derivatives trading platform for perpetuals & futures
- MerkleX – a decentralized exchange that uses a decentralized clearing network. Merklex allows traders to set limits on what can happen to their funds.
- Mettalex – a blockchain-agnostic decentralized commodity derivatives exchange
- mStable – a single standard unifying stablecoins swapping and lending protocol that also reduces friction and fragmentation
- Ocean Protocol – a decentralised data exchange protocol which enables data providers to monetise their private data using compute-to-data technology
- Opyn – a capital efficient DeFi options trading protocol
- PerlinX – a synthetic asset generation & decentralized liquidity pools trading implementation of the UMA protocol
- Perpetual Protocol – a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for all assets, featuring an on-chain Virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM)
- Primitive – a decentralized options market protocol
- Radar Relay – a non custodial trading platform sourcing liquidity from different venues as well as its own order book
- Ren – a provider of inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications
- Saddle – an automated market maker for pegged value crypto assets
- Saffron Finance – a peer to peer risk matching engine for decentralized finance liquidity providers
- Set Protocol – a protocol designed to create, manage, and obtain baskets of tokenized assets
- S.Finance – an automated market maker liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for efficient stablecoin trading
- Siren – a distributed protocol for creating, trading, and redeeming fully-collateralized options contracts for any ERC-20 token on Ethereum
- Sushiswap – an automatic market maker (AMM) DEX based on a Uniswap fork
- Synthetix – a decentralized platform on Ethereum for the creation of Synths: on-chain synthetic assets that track the value of real-world assets
- Tokenlon – a DEX with off-chain matching, and on-chain settlement via 0x
- UMA – a decentralized protocol to enable the creation, maintenance, and settlement of financial contracts for any underlying asset
- Uniswap – a fully decentralized on-chain protocol for token exchanges on Ethereum that uses liquidity pools instead of order books
- ZKSwap – a token Swap protocol based on Automated Market Maker that utilizes ZK-Rollup technology to provide scalablitiy and privacy
Payments
- Flexa – a payment network that enables merchants to accept digital currencies without the risk of fraud or volatility through off-chain collateralization.
- Fuse – a blockchain payment integration for businesses
- Request Network – an open network for transaction requests. It allows anyone to create, store and access invoices and receipts in a universal, decentralized network.
Wallets
- Alpha Wallet – a mobile-based wallet built for Dapps. Do everything with only a few taps.
- Argent – a secure smart contract wallet built for simplicity, security and usability.
- Ash – a wallet interface focused on DeFi asset management powered by Melon Protocol
- Atomex – a multicurrency HD wallet with built-in hybrid atomic swap exchange
- Coinbase Wallet – a non-custodial, DeFi enabled mobile wallet that lets you securely store your tokens and collectibles
- DEXWallet – a mobile wallet for decentralized finance
- Eidoo – a non-custodial wallet that allows users to store, exchange and transact crypto assets with a wide range of DeFi services and tools
- Gnosis Safe – a secure way to manage funds and interact with decentralized applications on Ethereum
- HB Wallet – a non-custodial DeFi-enabled wallet available on multiple platforms
- Infinity Wallet – a user-friendly, multi-currency and convenient DeFi & crypto wallet on desktop and mobile
- Math Wallet – a multi-chain non-custodial wallet with embedded browser functionality and DApp store
- Meet.One – a multi-chain DeFi wallet, non-custodial and easy-to-use
- Monolith – a decentralised banking alternative, powered by Ethereum
- My Crypto – an easy to use app that helps you create, import, and manage all your wallets
- My Ether Wallet – a free, easy-to-use and open-source client-side interface that helps you interact with the Ethereum blockchain
- MyKey – a secure multi-chain smart wallet, with trading & Defi features.
- Pillar Wallet – a next generation smart wallet with its own L2 payment network and multiple native DeFi integrations
- Poketto – a wallet that you can actually show to your parents
- Unstoppable Wallet – a non-custodial, open source and cross platform wallet, featuring advanced management & analytical tools
Interfaces
- Alpha Homora – a leveraged yield farming/liquidity providing protocol on Ethereum. Alpha Homora is the first product by Alpha Finance Lab
- Bamboo Relay – a 0x relayer built to trade, lend, and borrow tokens directly from your wallet.
- CoreVault – a yield farming protocol, with a deflationary token as well as unique permanent lock-up feature
- DDEX – Decentralized Margin TradingTrade with leverage and earn passive income in DeFi
- DeBank – an all-in-one DeFi wallet with on-chain DeFi stats
- DeFi Saver – an easy to use management portal for MakerDAO CDPs and compound protfolios
- DeFi Snap – a simple dashboard that helps visualize all DeFi assets and liabilities
- DEXKIT – an under-construction DeFi next-gen toolkit that will offer powerful decentralized trading, storing and market-making tools, starting with a SWAP aggregator using 0x API to aggregate best prices from 14 of the most popular DEXes
- dForce Network – a decentralized finance protocol, starting with the first synthetic indexed stablecoin – USDx
- Dharma – a peer-to-peer marketplace on Ethereum for non-custodial lending and borrowing of cryptocurrencies built on an extensible open source protocol
- dHEDGE – a decentralised asset management protocol on the Ethereum blockchain enabling capital allocation through transparently tracked strategies
- EasyCDP – an interface for MakerDAO that vastly simplifies the process of opening and managing a CDP
- Enzyme – an open-source, community-run protocol for asset management on Ethereum that enables users to create, manage, and invest in decentralized funds
- FiatDex Gateway – a simple browser-based interface to interact with the FiatDex protocol which allows users to trustlessly swap fiat to crypto
- Frontier – a mobile interface integrating all DeFi Protocols and Wallets, enabling users to Track, View & Manage positions in real-time without giving away their private keys
- Harvest Finance – a yield farming protocol featuring multiple strategies developed and maintained by the community
- Idle Finance – a decentralized rebalancing protocol automatically optimising users digital assets allocations to third-party DeFi protocols
- InstaDApp – an intuitive interface on top of the MakerDAO protocol that’s optimized for users lacking advanced technical or financial experience
- Mushrooms Finance – a crypto earning vault protocol with focus on seeking sustainable yields in the DeFi universe
- Pool Together – a protocol for no-loss prize games
- Sovryn – a protocol enabling trading tools for secure swaps, leverage trading, and crypto lending
- Stabilize Protocol – a protocol that aims to keep stablecoins at their peg by rewarding stablecoins depositors
- Totle – a decentralized liquidity provider where you can swap and transfer tokens while automatically getting the best prices from decentralized exchanges
- Unspent – a dashboard for all crypto and open finance activity: investing, trading, lending & borrowing
- Value DeFi – a flexible, optimized and profitable vault strategies and aggregation protocol
- yAxis – a community-launched meta yield-aggregator designed to deploy capital to the best yield strategy available
- Yearn Finance – a collection of community-led & developed yield farming vaults, yield aware money markets, easy swapping tools and pooled insurance coverage
- Zerion – an easy to use trustless banking interface utilizing popular DeFi protocols
- xToken – an ERC20 wrapper that wraps staking, governance, and liquidity strategies into a single ERC-20 token. These tokens can be added to liquidity pools and pledged as collateral for loans
Infrastructure
- 0x – a protocol for p2p exchange of tokenized assets
- Betoken – An open crypto fund managed by code and meritocracy
- Cover Protocol – a peer to peer coverage platform using fungible tokens that enables the market set projects’ coverage prices
- DFOhub – an Ethereum-based Research & Development project that provides a framework for DFO’s, on-chain companies with proprietary assets and voting tokens as programmable equities
- EPNS – a service that allows dApps, Smart Contracts & Services to send push notifications to their users in a decentralized way
- Graph Protocol – an indexing and query layer powering most DeFi applications today through open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL.
- Nest – a decentralized and transparent price oracles network
- Nexus Mutual – a decentralized insurance platform where people can share risk particularly against smart contract bugs, failure or other black swan events
- Nsure – an open insurance platform for open finance, in a marketplace model that enables risk outsourcing and underwriting
- PhishFort Protect – a crypto open source browser plugin that protects users in the DeFi space from phishing
- pToken – a trustless and transparent 2-way peg to teleport tokens across blockchains, without friction
- Secret Network – Open-source blockchain that provides transaction & computation privacy by default through trusted execution environments
- Tokentax – an easy to use cryptocurrency & DeFi taxes calculator
- Tornado Cash – a fully decentralized protocol for private transactions on Ethereum
Assets
- Ampleforth – a digital-asset-protocol for smart commodity-money.
- Augmint – a smart contract platform that issues stable tokens targeted 1:1 to the EUR backed by collateral
- Basis Cash – a decentralized algorithmic stablecoin inspired by the basis project
- Benchmark Protocol – an uncorrelated VIX-denominated collateral asset
- DAI – a decentralized stablecoin soft-pegged to the US Dollar
- Defi Pulse Index – a capitalization-weighted index that tracks the performance of decentralized financial assets
- Frax Finance – a fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol, with parts of its supply backed by collateral and parts of the supply algorithmic.
- Metronome – an autonomous portable monetary system with issuance predictability determined by code
- mUSD – a single standard unifying stablecoins swapping and lending protocol that also reduces friction and fragmentation
- Neutral – a meta-stablecoin system built using a basket of multiple stablecoins to generate a lower volatility token with a reduced risk profile
- RAI – a non pegged, ETH backed stable asset
- rDAI – a DeFi primitive that splits principal and interest in DeFi investments, and streams accrued interest to chosen addresses
- Reserve – a decentralized stablecoin protocol enabling global and frictionless payments
- tBTC – an open-source fully Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token pegged to the price of Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain
- USDx – USDx is a decentralized and synthetic indexed stablecoin introduced by dForce. USDx’s underlying stablecoins include USDC, TUSD and PAX
- WBTC – an ERC20 token that is backed 1:1 by bitcoin.
Scaling
- Bloxroute – a Layer 0 network infrastructure involving both miners & users to scale Web 3.0
- Celer – a state channels based layer 2 scaling network solution on Ethereum
- Connext – a non-custodial layer 2 payment-channel technology that enables off-chain, instant payments with low (or zero) transaction costs, helping scale the Ethereum network and paving the way for use cases like micropayments
- Lightning Network – a Layer 2 protocol on top of Bitcoin that seeks to improve scalability by moving small and frequent transactions off-chain, allowing for fast peer-to-peer transactions and low fees.
- Liquidity Network – a Layer 2 scalability solution that enables gas-less, near-instant trustless transactions & token swaps
- Loom Network – a DPOS layer 2 scaling solution that allows developers to run large-scale applications on top of Ethereum
- Loopring – an open source protocol for decentralized exchanges designed to provide matching-as-a-service, and its orders are unidirectional and do not differentiate takers and makers giving complete control to traders
- SKALE – an open-source, decentralized “elastic” blockchain network designed to scale Web3 applications. SKALE chains are configurable, application-specific blockchains or “dynamic shards” on top of the Ethereum
- xDai – an Ethereum sidechain with 5-second block times, low gas prices, and a native token that’s also called xDai.
Analytics
- 0x Tracker – a trade explorer for 0x protocol and decentralized ERC20 token price index
- Aavescan – a live and historical rates aggregator for the Aave protocol, enabling users to understand and compare Aave yields, interest rates and liquidity
- Coin Interest Rate – a dashboard showcasing borrowing and lending rates for USDC and DAI
- DefiScan – a read-only DeFi profile explorer for Compound, Uniswap, and SpankChain
- Etherscan – a block explorer and muti-purpose analytics platform for Ethereum
- Eth Gas Station – a consumer oriented metrics & analytics platform for the Ethereum gas market
- Loan Scan – a dashboard showing the best rates to earn passive income or lowest rates to borrow crypto
- UniswapROI – a calculator to help you analyze your investments in Uniswap and find the best liquidity pools
- Whois0x – a database of wallet addresses and their linked social media accounts that also provides easy to understand DeFi stats for each address
Communities
- Concourse Open Community – an open community of builders, enthusiasts and researchers working towards a free, bountiful and decentralized future for everyone
- DeFi Lab DAO – a spanish-speaking community promoting DeFi tools through working groups & hackathons to solve real problems in Finance
- Dai para principiantes – a spanish-first Dai and Defi educational website, tutorials & active community
- DeFi Nation – a DeFi-oriented community featuring discussions, walk-throughs, Q&A calls and more
- Ethereum Italia – an Ethereum focused community in Italy with a strong presence on all social media
- Hola DeFi – a DeFi product directory for the Spanish-speaking community
- ProstoCoin – an extensive Defi & Crypto ressource for the Russian-speaking community