The DeFi List

Lending

• 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 optimization 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
• Inverse finance – a DAO that offers capital-efficient lending, borrowing, and synthetic assets. Also offers passive investment in tokens using a Dollar-Cost Averaging strategy using stablecoin yield.
• 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 decentralized data exchange protocol that enables data providers to monetize 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)
• PieDAO – a decentralized asset manager for tokenized portfolios on the Ethereum blockchain
• Primitive – a decentralized options market protocol
• Quickswap – a decentralized Auotmated Market Maker (AMM) exchange built on polygon
• 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 decentralized 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
• OnX Finance – a defi platform for yield farming and lending liquidity provider (LP) tokens
• 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 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

Education

• Cryptofilter – a community-curated DeFi & web3 news & info aggregator
• Defi Nerd – a lending & borrowing reviews and rates comparison ressource for crypto assets
• DeFi News – a DeFi News & Education resource
• DeFi Prime – a list of the best Decentralized Finance Products
• Defi Rate – a trusted resource for DeFi research, news and interviews with a strong focus on lending rates

Podcasts

• Chris Blec – a collection of demos for various DeFi products, targeted to beginner & intermediate users.
• Epicenter – a podcast which interviews crypto founders, builders, and thought leaders while focusing discussions on explaining technical details, and understanding visionary concepts as well as long-term trends in DeFi and crypto
• Into the Ether Podcast – a podcast focusing on all things related to Ethereum, the leading blockchain for decentralized applications.
• Wyre Podcast – a podcast where Thomas Scaria interviews founders of top DeFi projects twice a month. Giving insight to their business as well as the technical challenges that they have overcome.

Newsletters

• Bankless – the ultimate guide to crypto finance written by Ryan Sean Adams
• DeFi Tutorial – a newsletter focused on teaching and educating readers about DeFi with hands on video tutorials
• DeFi Value – a place to better understand and evaluate Decentralized Finance
• DeFi Weekly – a weekly in-depth review of technical achievements within decentralized finance
• Dose of DeFi – a weekly newsletter that specializes in deep dives on topics in the space
• EthHub Weekly Newsletter – a collection of the week’s Ethereum and cryptocurrency news curated by the founders of EthHub
• The Defiant – a curated list of daily news in the DeFi space explained and condensed down to a digestible level by Camila Russo

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 resource for the Russian-speaking community