DeFi Alternatives
Discover the best DeFi protocols and tools across all categories. Filter by category, search by name or description, and explore the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Aevo
Aevo is a decentralized derivatives exchange, focused on options. The exchange runs on a custom EVM roll-up that rolls up to Ethereum. Aevo operates an off-chain orderbook with on-chain settlements.
Marginfi
Marginfi is a decentralized lending protocol on Solana that prioritizes risk management to provide a safe and reliable solution for users looking to access leverage and maximize capital efficiency.
LooksRare
LooksRare is the community-first NFT marketplace that actively rewards traders, collectors and creators for participating
PoolTogether
PoolTogether is a no-loss, audited savings game powered by blockchain technology. Interview with PoolTogether co-founder.
DeepDAO
DeepDAO is a platform that collects and organizes a variety of quantitative and qualitative data about DAOs
DefiLlama
DefiLlama is a multi-chain TVL stats dashboard, where data connectors contributed and maintained by a community
L2beat
L2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer 2 scaling. Here you will find in depth comparison of major protocols live on Ethereum today.
Revert Finance
Revert provides actionable analytics for DeFi liquidity providers on Uniswap v2, v3 and Sushiswap
Unispark
Unispark allows you to analyze, optimize and simulate your Uniswap V3 positions in seconds, giving you useful insights on fees, returns, risk, volume, impermanent loss, and more.
vfat.tools
Vfat.tools is a minimalist yield farming dashboard and farming calculator where you can find the most popular farms and their APY
AlphaWallet
AlphaWallet is a mobile crypto wallet that interacts with smart contracts and dApps.
Ambire
Ambire Wallet is a user-friendly crypto wallet for both beginners and experienced users with a simplified UI.
Argent
Argent is a smart contract based wallet for Ethereum crypto-assets and dApps. Argent - a new type of Ethereum wallet. Interview with Itamar Lesuisse, CEO of Argent.
DeFi Saver
DeFi Saver is a management dashboard for decentralized finance protocols, including MakerDAO CDPs (with features such as automatic liquidation protection), as well as Compound, dYdX and Fulcrum. Interview with co-founder, Nenad PalinkaΕ‘eviΔ.
Dhedge
βdHEDGE is a platform for managing investment activities on the Ethereum blockchain where you can put your capital to work in different strategies based on a transparent track record. Interview with co-founder.
Enjin Crypto Wallet
Enjin is a mobile cryptocurrency wallet with dApp browser, supporting Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin, ERC20, ERC721 AND ERC1155 tokens.
Furucombo
Furucombo is a tool built for end-users to optimize their DeFi strategy simply by drag and drop UI.
imToken
imToken is a digital asset wallet enabling multi-chain asset management, dApp browsing and exchange of value. Interview with imToken.
InstaDApp
Instadapp is a platform providing users and developers with a single point of integration to access all the DeFi protocols
Keplr Wallet
Keplr is a non-custodial IBC-enabled wallet that allow users to interact with Cosmos based blockchains.
Stake DAO
Stake DAO is a non-custodial platform that enables anyone to easily grow their crypto portfolio. It is built on top of decentralized blockchain protocols, offering a seamless way for people to grow, track, and control assets right from their wallet.
Step Finance
Step Finance is a dashboard for Solana blockchain that let you visualize, analyze, aggregate, and execute transactions. Interview with co-founder.
TokenPocket
TokenPocket is a multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet on both mobile and desktop with built in dApp browsers.
Tokensets
TokenSets is the asset management platform with tokenized trading strategies facilitated by Set Protocolβs smart contract system. Interview with Tokensets creators.
Zapper
Zapper is a system focused on abstracting away the complexities of composing and accessing the most innovative opportunities in open finance. Interview with the team.
ZenGo
ZenGo is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet with native UI integrations with DeFi lending protocols and staking providers. Interview with Ouriel Ohayon, CEO, and co-founder of ZenGo.
Backed
Backed is creating on-chain infrastructure for capital markets, including composable tokenized securities that track the value of real-world assets such as bonds, stocks, or ETFs.
Maple
Maple is the only on-chain marketplace focused exclusively on serving Institutional and Individual Accredited Investors with high-quality lending opportunities which suit their liquidity, risk and return requirements.
Matrixdock
Matrixdock is a digital assets platform that provides institutional and accredited investors with transparent access to tokenized real-world assets (RWA) with an immutable record of ownership, daily Proof-of-Reserve and full bankruptcy remoteness.
Ondo
Ondo is creating secure, onchain financial products like tokenized notes such as USDY. It is backed by short-term US Treasuries and bank demand deposits.
Openeden
The Openeden TBILL Vault provides investors with direct exposure to a pool of short-dated T-Bills through the Vaultβs TBILL token, which is backed 1:1 by the T-Bills as well as USDC and U.S. Dollar reserves.
Securitize
The compliance platform for digitizing securities on the blockchain.
Templum
Templum provides a regulated, end-to-end solution for raising capital and secondary trading in the private market.
Tokensoft
TokenSoft enables issuers, financial institutions, broker-dealers, real estate companies, and funds to meet compliance requirements for digital securities on the blockchain at issuance, distribution, and transfer.
Aragon
Aragon allows you to create global, bureaucracy-free companies and freely organize and collaborate without borders or intermediaries.
Colony
Colony is a suite of smart contracts, providing a general purpose framework for the essential functions organizations require, such as ownership, structure, authority, and financial management.
DXdao
The DXdao is a decentralized organization that develops, governs, and grows DeFi protocols and products, owned and operated by the community.
Daohaus
Daohaus is a DAO Explorer with interface enabling joining existing DAOs, as well as creating a new Moloch-like DAOs.
Realms
Realms is a platform built on Solana that provides tools for builders to create and manage their own DAO. Using Realms, builders can create their own DAO, which allows them to manage their members, vote on proposals, and allocate their treasury.
Snapshot
Snapshot is a off-chain, gasless, multi-governance community polling dashboard
Tally
Tally is a voting dashboard, aggregating data from defi protocolsβ governance and providing it in real-time for research and analysis. Interview with co-founder.
Cryptex Finance
Cryptex Finance is a multi-network DeFi protocol that provides easy access to fully-decentralized index tokens. The protocol uses Ethereum smart contracts, over-collateralized vaults, and Chainlink data oracles to create indexes in a trustless way. Interview with founder.
NFT20
NFT20 is a permissionless protocol enabling trade, swap and sell NFTs that tokenized at indices pools.
NFTX
NFTX is a platform for making ERC20 tokens that are backed by NFT collectibles and governed by a community-owned protocol. Interview with core contributor.
Olympus DAO
Olympus is a decentralized reserve currency protocol based on the OHM token. Each OHM token is backed by a basket of assets in the Olympus treasury, giving it an intrinsic value that it cannot fall below.
PieDAO
The PieDAO is a decentralized organization dedicated to bringing market accessibility and economic empowerment through Pie Protocol and Tokenized ETFs governed by a DAO
SynFutures
SynFutures is a decentralized protocol for perpetual futures, democratizing the derivatives market by empowering users to trade any asset and create arbitrary futures contracts within seconds. Its V3 oAMM introduces integration of a unified AMM and on-chain matching order book model.
Aevo
Aevo is a decentralized derivatives exchange, focused on options. The exchange runs on a custom EVM roll-up that rolls up to Ethereum. Aevo operates an off-chain orderbook with on-chain settlements.
AirSwap
Peer-to-peer token trading on Ethereum, without trading fees. Interview with AirSwap team.
Bisq
Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer desktop application that allows you to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
CowSwap
CowSwap is a trading interface built on top of Gnosis Protocol v2. It allows you to buy and sell tokens using gas-less orders that are settled peer-to-peer among its users or into any on-chain liquidity source while providing MEV protection.
Curve
Curve is an exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for extremely efficient stablecoin trading. Interview with Curve Finance founder.
Drift Protocol
Drift Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralized exchange built on the Solana blockchain, enabling transparent and non-custodial cryptocurrency trading.
Jupiter
Jupiter is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator on the Solana blockchain that provides the best swap rates by combining liquidity from multiple sources.
Orca
Orca is a decentralized protocol that facilitates trades on Solana, as Orca is non-custodial when you trade tokens the protocol will interact directly with your wallet.
Osmosis
Osmosis is an automated market maker (AMM) protocol that allows developers to build customized AMMs with sovereign liquidity pools. Built using the Cosmos SDK, Osmosis utilizes Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) to enable cross-chain transactions.
Quickswap
QuickSwap is a permissionless decentralized exchange based on Polygon Layer 2 scalability infrastructure
Raydium
Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity and new features for earning yield
Bancor Protocol
The Bancor Protocol ensures continuous liquidity and real-time price discovery between blockchain-based assets, without matching buyers and sellers.
Blocknative
Blocknativeβs infrastructure and APIs provide real-time mempool monitoring to keep your transactions flowing reliably, resiliently, and predictably.
Centrifuge
Open, decentralized platform to connect the global financial supply chain. Intreview with Philip Stehlik, co-founder and CTO of Centrifuge.
Chainlink
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle that can provide external data to smart contracts. Interview with Adelyn Zhou
Fortmatic
Fortmatic SDK let users to interact with dApp through any browser or device. Interview with Fortmatic co-founder, Sean Li.
Loopring
A protocol for decentralized token exchange, where traders have complete and total control of their crypto-assets. Intreview with Daniel Wang, founder of Loopring Foundation.
MoonPay
MoonPay is a fiat on-ramp that enables web and mobile developers to let their users purchase virtual currencies using credit card.
Provable
Provable is a blockchain oracle service, enabling data-rich smart contracts. Provable: blockchain-agnostic oracle service for dApps developers. Interview with founder Thomas Bertani.
Torus
Torus allows users to login to your dApp with their OAuth accounts, Google and Facebook, to derive their private keys in a trustless manner.
Transak
Transak is a simple and compliant way for customers to buy and sell crypto assets with a bank transfer.
Uma
UMA is a decentralized financial contracts platform built to enable Universal Market Access. Interview with co-founder of UMA, Allison Lu.
WalletConnect
WalletConnect is an open protocol for connecting desktop Dapps to mobile Wallets using end-to-end encryption by scanning a QR code.
InsurAce Protocol
InsurAce is a multi-chain protocol that provides insurance services to DeFi users, allowing them to protect their investment funds against various risks
Nexus Mutual
Secure risk and potential bugs in smart contract code. Be covered for events like The DAO hack or Parity multi-sig wallet issues. Interview with Hugh Karp, founder of Nexus Mutual.
Opium Insurance
Opium Insurance offers tradable, tokenized insurance position against smart-contract hacking or against stablecoin default.
3Box
3Box is a next-generation framework for managing user data on the internet.
Blockpass
Blockpass is a blockchain based self-sovereign identity protocol for the connected world. Blockpass offers shared regulatory compliance services for humans, companies, objects and devices.
Bloom
Bloom is a blockchain solution for secure identity and credit scoring. Interview with Shannon Wu from Bloom Founding Team.
BrightID
BrightID allows people to prove to applications that theyβre only using one account.
Colendi
Colendi it is blockchain based credibility evaluation and global identity for the sharing economy.
DegenScore
DegenScore Beacon is an Ethereum soulbound token that highlights your on-chain skills & traits across one or more wallets. You can use it to leverage your on-chain reputation across web3.
Hydro
Hydro enables new and existing private systems to seamlessly integrate and leverage the immutable and transparent dynamics of a public blockchain, to enhance application and document security, identity management, and transactions.
Identity.com
Identity.com is an open source ecosystem providing access to on-demand, secure identity verification.
Jolocom
Jolocom is an open source protocol for people and organizations to create and interact with digital,β¨self-sovereign identities.
SelfKey
SelfKey is building a blockchain-based identity system that allows identity owners to truly own, control and manage their digital identity.
88mph
88mph lets you lend your crypto assets at a fixed interest rate. Interview with 88mph team
Aave
Aave is an Open Source and Non-Custodial protocol that let you earn interest on deposits & borrow assets on multiple chains. Aave Protocol - Innovative DeFi Lending, interview with the founder
Abracadabra
Abracadabra.money is a lending platform that uses interest-bearing tokens (ibTKNs) as collateral to borrow a USD pegged stablecoin (Magic Internet Money - MIM), that can be used as any other traditional stablecoin.
Alchemix
Alchemix is a future-yield-backed synthetic asset platform with flexible instant loans that repay themselves over time and community DAO. The platform advances your yield farming via a synthetic token representing a fungible claim on any underlying collateral in the Alchemix protocol
Compound
Compound is an open-source, autonomous protocol built for developers, enable algorithmic, efficient money markets on the Ethereum.
Euler
Euler is a non-custodial permissionless lending protocol on Ethereum that helps users to earn interest on their crypto assets or hedge against volatile markets without the need for a trusted third-party.
Gearbox
Gearbox Protocol is essentially a two-sided lending marketplace: it connects users who want passive safe APY & leverage degens who know how to make more with leverage and alpha.
Kamino Finance
Kamino Finance aims to provide users with an easy-to-use and efficient way to manage their digital assets, earn passive income, and participate in the growing DeFi ecosystem. The platform offers a variety of features, including automated liquidity provision, lending and borrowing, and yield farming.
Liquity
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against Ether used as collateral. Interview with founder.
Mai Finance
Mai Finance let you mint stablecoins without having to sell your crypto assets, and do so at 0% interest.
Notional
Notional is a fixed rate lending and borrowing platform on Ethereum
Solend
Solend is an algorithmic, decentralized protocol for lending and borrowing on Solana that lets you earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.
Summer.fi
Summer.fi allows you to lock your tokens as collateral to generate DAI, a decentralized stablecoin soft-pegged to 1 USD.
Venus
Venus is a algorithmic money market and synthetic stablecoin protocol on Binance Smart Chain
Aevo
Aevo is a decentralized derivatives exchange, focused on options. The exchange runs on a custom EVM roll-up that rolls up to Ethereum. Aevo operates an off-chain orderbook with on-chain settlements.
Drift Protocol
Drift Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralized exchange built on the Solana blockchain, enabling transparent and non-custodial cryptocurrency trading.
Zeta
Zeta is a decentralized derivatives exchange built on the Solana blockchain. It offers a fully on-chain orderbook and focuses on providing a fast, liquid, and ecosystem-oriented platform for trading futures and options.
dYdX
dYdX is a trading platform for crypto assets, built with open-source protocols, enabling decentralized margin trading. dYdX - Decentralized Platform for Advanced Financial Products, interview with Antonio Juliano
Blur
Blur is a zero fees NFT marketplace, with a fast UI, portfolio management tools and advanced analytics.
Foundation
Foundation is a marketplace platform for buying, selling, and trading limited-edition goods.
OpenSea
OpenSea is a peer to peer marketplace for crypto collectibles. Interview with OpenSean co-founder Devin Finzer.
Rarible
Rarible allows you to create and sell NFT collectibles at digital art marketplace. Interview with Alexei Falin, CEO and co-founder of Rarible
Superrare
SuperRare is a marketplace to collect and trade unique, single-edition digital artworks.
Tensor
Tensor is an NFT marketplace on the Solana blockchain, known for its fast and feature-rich platform. It offers advanced trading tools such as real-time data, historical candlestick prices, and AMM pools for NFTs.
Zora
Zora is a decentralized protocol for creators to publish, share, and monetize their work. It is built on Ethereum and aims to create a more fair and transparent system for creators to earn from their work. Users can buy, sell, and trade digital art, music, and other creative content using the platform.
Lightning Network
Lightning Network is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.
Request
Request is a decentralized network built on top of Ethereum, which allows anyone, anywhere to request, validate and execute payments. How Request Enabling Blockchain-based Invoices? Interview with Request co-founder Christophe Lassuyt.
Sablier
Sablier is the protocol for real-time finance on Ethereum, that enables continuous, autonomous and trustless payroll. Interview with Paul Berg, inventor of the Sablier protocol.
Superfluid
Superfluid is a novel crypto asset streaming protocol that enables transformative web3 money experiences like salary and subscription streaming, real-time investing, and more β all on-chain
Augur
Augur is a decentralized oracle and peer to peer protocol for prediction markets.
Omen.eth
Omen uses the Gnosis conditional token framework to give anyone the ability to create a prediction market - be it in the realm of crypto, sports, politics, entertainment, etc. Interview with Omen team.
PlotX
PlotX is a cross-chain prediction market protocol that enables crypto traders to make crypto-asset price predictions in hourly, daily & weekly time frames.
Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform, where you can bet on the highly-debated topics and earn for being right.
Ampleforth
AMPL is a USD soft-pegged digital currency, that adjusts supply daily based on market conditions.
Augmint
Augmint offers digital tokens targeted to a fiat currency. Stablecoin backed 1:1 by Euros.
DAI
DAI is a crypto-backed stablecoin soft-pegged to USD, built on the Ethereum and governed by the MakerDAO system.
DefiDollar
DefiDollar is a stable asset, backed by an index of stablecoins. DUSD is a hedge against volatility and provides portfolio risk diversification.
EOSDT
EOS-based stablecoin with self-service dApp to generate stablecoins against crypto collateral and to manage existing user positions. Equilibrium - framework for generating asset-backed EOSDT stablecoins. Interview with CEO.
Frax
Frax is the first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol. Interview with Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance
HUSD
HUSD is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. dollars held in a U.S. trust company.
Money on Chain
Money on Chain provides a bitcoin-collateralized and dollar-pegged stablecoin
Pax Dollar
USDP is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by USD, and gives customers the ability to store and send US Dollars with freedom, unrestricted by the limits of traditional banking system.
pTokens
pTokens are the ERC-20 token version of other, non-Ethereum blockchain currencies that enable liquidity to freely move from one blockchain to another.
WBTC
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is the ERC20 token backed 1:1 with Bitcoin. WBTC origins with Benedict Chan, CTO of BitGo.