{"id":34378,"date":"2021-01-06T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34378"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:13:26","slug":"assets-locked-in-defi-protocols-exceed-20-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/assets-locked-in-defi-protocols-exceed-20-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Assets locked in DeFi protocols exceed $20 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto assets deployed in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols total $20.18 billion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The segment&#8217;s trailblazer \u2014 MakerDAO \u2014 leads the DeFi Pulse ranking. TVL in this project exceeds $4 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121353\" style=\"width: 898px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121353\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-16.png\" alt=\"Assets locked in DeFi protocols exceed $20 billion\" width=\"888\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-16.png 888w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-16-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-16-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-121353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: DeFi Pulse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind MakerDAO by a wide margin are the lending protocol Aave and the leading non-custodial exchange Uniswap. TVL of these projects stands at $2.68 billion and $2.53 billion respectively.<\/p>\n<p>A DeFi Dad user reminded that total TVL of the decentralized finance sector was only $1 billion a year ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\ude0e Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeFi?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeFi<\/a> hit $1B TVL a year ago on and some told us TVL was a useless metric?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Yep, they were wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b0QMtiY31h\">https:\/\/t.co\/b0QMtiY31h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeFi Dad \u27e0 defidad.eth (@DeFi_Dad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeFi_Dad\/status\/1346632065467490304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Twitter regular under the handle gMAK\u26a1\ufe0f predicted TVL at $100 billion this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Expecting current total TVL in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeFi?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeFi<\/a> to hit $100bn in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Currently at $20bn TVL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gMAK\u26a1\ufe0f (@gMAKcrypto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gMAKcrypto\/status\/1346681806033137665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto assets deployed in DeFi protocols total $20.18 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,1937,1100],"class_list":["post-34378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-defi-pulse","tag-makerdao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34380,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378\/revisions\/34380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}