DeFi
Lending, trading and yield protocols that run on smart contracts rather than through an intermediary.
What it is
Decentralized finance: lending, trading, stablecoins and yield run by smart contracts instead of a bank, broker or exchange.
What they share
Users keep their own funds and deal with code rather than a company, and almost every token here governs a protocol: holders vote on its parameters, and on some of them share in the fees it earns.
What separates them
This is the broadest category on the site; it is several businesses under one name.
- Exchanges for spot trading (Uniswap, Curve, PancakeSwap) and perpetual futures (Hyperliquid).
- Lending markets (Aave, Morpho).
- Stablecoin and synthetic-dollar issuers (Sky, formerly Maker; Ethena).
- Yield and rate trading (Pendle) and liquid restaking (Ether.fi).
- Oracles, which feed prices to all of the above (Chainlink, Pyth).
- Tokenized real-world assets (Ondo).
The biggest difference between DeFi tokens is whether the protocol's revenue reaches token holders, through buybacks, burns or fee sharing, or the token only carries a vote.
By the numbers
The 28 members on today's board, 2 October 2026. Market data only; these move as the board changes.
- Combined market cap
- $74.45B · 2.9% of the board
- Largest member
- Hyperliquid HYPE
- Median member, 30 days
- +33.4% · Bitcoin +9.5% · 28 with enough history
- Median member, 90 days
- +70.8% · Bitcoin +35.5% · 28 with enough history
The 28 on today's board
By market cap. Updated 13m ago. Membership starts from CoinGecko's categories; a coin is listed when this category describes what it does, not merely what it is used for. Each coin's page shows its score; sign in free to see them side by side.
| # | Coin | Price | 24h | Market cap | 24h volume | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 |  Hyperliquid HYPE |
$88.95 | +1.1% | $19.78B | $857.5M | 🔒 |
| 13 |  Chainlink LINK |
$14.16 | -1.4% | $10.59B | $490.7M | 🔒 |
| 19 |  Rain RAIN |
$0.0114 | -8.5% | $8.07B | $23.5M | 🔒 |
| 23 |  Uniswap UNI |
$8.99 | -1.1% | $5.62B | $572.9M | 🔒 |
| 33 |  Bitway BTW |
$1.46 | +1.8% | $3.94B | $16.1M | 🔒 |
| 41 |  Aave AAVE |
$182.30 | +8.3% | $2.81B | $654.9M | 🔒 |
| 42 |  Pump.fun PUMP |
$0.0059 | +4.9% | $2.75B | $611.1M | 🔒 |
| 45 |  Ethena ENA |
$0.2436 | -3.0% | $2.46B | $516.6M | 🔒 |
| 46 |  Ondo ONDO |
$0.5012 | +1.0% | $2.44B | $226.2M | 🔒 |
| 52 |  Sky SKY |
$0.0925 | +14.6% | $2.17B | $59.0M | 🔒 |
| 55 |  Aster ASTER |
$0.7360 | -0.7% | $1.99B | $113.0M | 🔒 |
| 57 |  Morpho MORPHO |
$2.61 | +3.9% | $1.83B | $36.3M | 🔒 |
| 76 |  Jupiter JUP |
$0.3240 | +0.9% | $1.08B | $83.9M | 🔒 |
| 77 |  JUST JST |
$0.1298 | -2.9% | $1.06B | $30.1M | 🔒 |
| 82 |  Lighter LIT |
$3.66 | -7.5% | $914.8M | $97.2M | 🔒 |
| 86 |  PancakeSwap CAKE |
$2.55 | -1.7% | $843.2M | $69.3M | 🔒 |
| 88 |  Aerodrome Finance AERO |
$0.7764 | -2.7% | $775.8M | $48.0M | 🔒 |
| 92 |  Injective INJ |
$7.59 | +1.4% | $758.5M | $122.5M | 🔒 |
| 97 |  Ether.fi ETHFI |
$0.7183 | -3.2% | $693.0M | $56.6M | 🔒 |
| 104 |  Pyth Network PYTH |
$0.0787 | +4.4% | $619.9M | $26.2M | 🔒 |
| 107 |  Curve DAO CRV |
$0.3762 | -1.9% | $590.7M | $72.6M | 🔒 |
| 114 |  Raydium RAY |
$1.93 | +1.6% | $521.4M | $45.2M | 🔒 |
| 121 |  Sei SEI |
$0.0705 | -2.5% | $474.3M | $62.8M | 🔒 |
| 125 |  Pendle PENDLE |
$2.43 | +1.4% | $421.1M | $58.8M | 🔒 |
| 127 |  Derive DRV |
$0.4064 | +6.1% | $406.3M | $19.3M | 🔒 |
| 130 |  Falcon Finance FF |
$0.1161 | -8.7% | $387.9M | $7.2M | 🔒 |
| 132 |  Lido DAO LDO |
$0.4490 | +1.7% | $372.3M | $64.0M | 🔒 |
| 317 |  Spark SPK |
$0.0264 | +10.2% | $89.8M | $24.4M | 🔒 |
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