Arbitrum DeFi Ecosystem

DeFi is the movement that leverages decentralized networks to transform old financial products into trustless and transparent protocols that run without intermediaries. We have 212 DeFi projects listed and 83 of them built on Arbitrum.

Ethereum DeFi	171
Optimism DeFi	47
Arbitrum DeFi	83

Asset Management Tools

Ambire

Ambire Wallet is a user-friendly crypto wallet for both beginners and experienced users with a simplified UI.

Backpack

Backpack is a self-custodial wallet paired with an exchange for spot and futures trading. The wallet holds assets on Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base and Arbitrum in one interface.

Coinbase Wallet

Coinbase Wallet is a mobile crypto wallet supporting multicoin assets as well as ERC-20 tokens and ERC-721 collectibles. Coinbase Wallet also provides access to Web 3 Decentralized Applications (dApps) powered by Ethereum smart contracts.

DeBank

DeBank tracks a wallet’s positions across lending, staking, liquidity pools and stablecoins in one portfolio view, with protocol rankings and a social feed. It covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Polygon and other EVM chains.

Family

Family is a self-custodial mobile wallet for Ethereum built around simple sending, swaps and connecting to apps. It supports Ethereum, Base, Optimism and Arbitrum.

Ledger

Ledger makes hardware wallets that keep private keys on a secure element, paired with the Ledger Live app for holding, staking and swapping. It supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum and Base.

MetaMask

MetaMask is a browser extension that allows users to run Ethereum dApps and interacting with smart contracts. MetaMask Alternatives

Rabby Wallet

Rabby Wallet is a Web3 wallet that offers a smooth multi-chain experience by automatically switching to the corresponding chain based on your visited Web3 dApp.

Rainbow

Rainbow is a fun, simple, and secure Ethereum wallet that makes managing your assets a joy.

Safe

Gnosis Safe is a smart contract-based wallet enables users to manage their funds and interact with decentralized applications on Ethereum. Interview with the Gnosis Safe Team.

Uniswap Wallet

Uniswap Wallet is a self-custodial mobile and browser wallet that routes swaps through the Uniswap protocol. It supports Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon.

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.

Zerion

Zerion is an investment interface for decentralized finance, providing users with a single place to manage their entire DeFi portfolio in a non-custodial way. Interview with Zerion co-founder.

Derivatives

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.

ApeX Protocol

ApeX Protocol is a perpetual futures exchange with an order book and self-custody of margin, running across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base and BNB Chain.

Aster

Aster is a next-generation decentralized perpetual exchange offering multi-chain, liquid, and secure trading. Trade perpetuals across multiple chains with deep liquidity aggregation, hidden orders, and zero price impact trades.

Derive

Derive is a decentralized protocol that creates unique and programmable onchain options, perpetuals, and structured products.

GMX

GMX is a perpetual exchange where liquidity providers back trades from a shared pool and traders pay funding and borrowing fees. It runs on Arbitrum, Avalanche and Solana.

Hegic

Hegic is on-chain options trading protocol, allowing you to buy ETH call and put options as an individual holder (buyer) or sell ETH call and put options as a liquidity provider.

Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual exchange with best-in-class speed, liquidity, and price. Trade crypto in one click, without wallet approvals.

Variational

Variational settles peer-to-peer derivatives in isolated smart contracts, quoting prices on request rather than through an order book, and its Omni app trades perpetuals on Arbitrum.

Yield Aggregators on Arbitrum

Beefy Finance

Beefy Finance is a Multi Chain Yield Optimizer that enables users to get maximal return on their assets while removing the cost and hassle of daily harvest.

Cian

Cian automates leveraged staking and lending strategies inside vaults, rebalancing the positions as rates move. It runs on Ethereum, Mantle, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base.

Concrete

Concrete runs yield vaults that route deposits into lending and yield trading venues such as Morpho, Euler and Pendle. It operates on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Berachain.

Lagoon

Lagoon provides asynchronous vaults with built-in fee logic and reporting so curators can run tokenized strategies. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche and Hyperliquid.

Pendle

Pendle is a yield tokenization protocol that splits yield-bearing assets into separate principal and yield tokens, enabling users to trade future yield, lock in fixed rates, or speculate on yield movements.

Superform

Superform is a self-custodial app for earning yield on dollars and holding tokenized United States stocks, built on the Superform vault protocol. It covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche and BNB Chain.

Yearn.finance

Yearn.Finance automates yield-maximizing profit switching opportunities for liquidity providers and yield farmers.

Decentralized exchanges on Arbitrum

1inch.exchange

1inch.exchange split the order to several decentralized exchanges like UniswapExchange, KyberNetwork, Bancor and RadarRelay to avoid high price slippage. Interview with 1inch CTO. 1inch alternatives.

Balancer

Balancer Exchange allow you to swap ERC20 tokens trustlessly across all Balancer’s liquidity pools.

Curve

Curve is an exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for extremely efficient stablecoin trading. Interview with Curve Finance founder.

Fluid

Fluid combines a lending market and a DEX in one liquidity layer, so collateral and debt positions also earn trading fees. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon and Plasma.

Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual exchange with best-in-class speed, liquidity, and price. Trade crypto in one click, without wallet approvals.

Matcha

Matcha is a crypto trading platform with smart order routing powered by 0x. Matcha aggregates liquidity from multiple sources, including 0x, Kyber, Uniswap, Oasis, Curve, and others. Matcha Alternatives

SushiSwap

The SushiSwap exchange allows users to swap any ERC20 token into any other ERC20 token through automated liquidity pools

Uniswap

Uniswap is an automated fully decentralized token exchange on Ethereum. Uniswap Explained - In-Depth DeFi Guide. Uniswap Alternatives.

Velora

Velora(ex-Paraswap) is a decentralized exchange aggregator that provides the best prices over multiple DEXs on the Ethereum, and many others EVM blockchains. Interview with ParaSwap CEO and founder, Mounir Benchemled.

DeFi Infrastructure & Dev Tooling

Across

Across is a bridge where relayers front the destination funds and are repaid from a shared pool after an optimistic verification. It connects Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, Linea and Scroll.

Envio

Envio is an indexing framework that turns contract events into a queryable GraphQL API, with local development and hosted deployment. It supports Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Monad.

Infura

Infura provides hosted RPC endpoints and archive access so applications can read and write to chains without running nodes. It serves Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Linea.

LayerZero

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol enabling secure cross-chain messaging, token transfers, and data movement across 70+ blockchains through immutable, censorship-resistant infrastructure.

Pyth Network

Pyth Network is a decentralized oracle delivering real-time price feeds from 128+ first-party data publishers across 2,800+ feeds on 100+ blockchains, serving 520+ DeFi applications.

RedStone

RedStone is an oracle that delivers price feeds on demand, with signed data pulled into a transaction or pushed on chain. It serves Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Berachain, Monad and Hyperliquid.

Snapshot

Snapshot is a off-chain, gasless, multi-governance community polling dashboard

Tally

Tally is a voting dashboard, aggregating data from defi protocols’ governance and providing it in real-time for research and analysis. Interview with co-founder.

Tenderly

Tenderly is a development platform for simulating transactions, debugging reverts and forking chain state, with RPC nodes and alerting. It covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon.

Wormhole

Wormhole is a messaging layer that moves tokens and arbitrary data between chains, with guardians attesting to source-chain events. It connects Ethereum, Solana, Sui, Aptos, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Chain.

Decentralized Insurance Platforms

Blockaid

Blockaid screens transactions and dapp connections inside wallets, flagging drainers and malicious approvals before a signature is given. It covers Ethereum, Solana, Base and Arbitrum.

Chaos Labs

Chaos Labs runs parameter simulations and risk monitoring for lending protocols and perpetual venues, and operates the Edge oracle network. It covers Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base and Solana.

Hypernative

Hypernative watches contracts and wallets for attack patterns and fires alerts or automated responses before funds move. It covers Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Solana and Polygon.

K3 Capital

K3 Capital curates lending and fixed-rate vaults across Euler, Morpho, Term and Pendle, picking collateral and caps for each market. It covers Ethereum, Monad, Optimism, Plasma and Arbitrum.

MEV Capital

MEV Capital curates yield and lending vaults, choosing the collateral, caps and oracles for each market it runs. It covers Ethereum, Base and Arbitrum.

Asset Tokenization

BlackRock BUIDL

BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund holds treasury bills, repo and cash, with Securitize acting as transfer agent. The $BUIDL token runs on Ethereum, Solana, Aptos, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon.

Dinari

Dinari issues dShares, tokens backed by United States listed stocks and ETFs held with a registered broker dealer. They run on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base.

Franklin Templeton Benji

Franklin Templeton Benji is the access point for the firm’s tokenized money market funds, with share ownership recorded on chain. The tokens run on Stellar, Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche and Solana.

Midas

Midas issues tokenized certificates tracking treasury bills and managed crypto strategies, each with a named risk manager and a public mint and redeem flow. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana and Hyperliquid.

Spiko

Spiko runs regulated money market funds whose shares are issued as tokens, giving European businesses access to government bill yield. The tokens run on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Base and Stellar.

Decentralized Lending on Arbitrum

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

Compound

Compound is an open-source, autonomous protocol built for developers, enable algorithmic, efficient money markets on the Ethereum.

Dolomite

Dolomite is a money market where deposited collateral keeps its staking and governance rights while it backs a loan. It runs on Arbitrum, Berachain, Ethereum and Mantle.

Fluid

Fluid combines a lending market and a DEX in one liquidity layer, so collateral and debt positions also earn trading fees. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon and Plasma.

Silo Finance

Silo Finance puts every asset in its own isolated lending market, so a bad debt event stays inside that pair. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Sonic and Avalanche.

Sky

Sky is the protocol behind the $USDS stablecoin, where borrowers open vaults against crypto collateral and savers deposit into the Sky Savings Rate. It runs on Ethereum, Base and Arbitrum.

Payments Solutions and Service Providers

Holyheld

Holyheld is a Swiss payments account for companies, with a self-custodial Mastercard, stablecoin off-ramps and named USD and EUR accounts. It covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Solana.

Prediction Markets

Azuro

Azuro supplies pooled liquidity and odds to sports betting front ends, so builders can run a book without holding the risk. It operates on Polygon, Base, Linea, Arbitrum and Gnosis.

Overtime

Overtime runs on-chain sports markets with automated market making and parlay support, settled from Chainlink data feeds. It operates on Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Ethereum.

Rain

Rain is a prediction market protocol on Arbitrum with an SDK that lets anyone deploy markets on their own front end, resolved by oracles and community review.

Stablecoins

GHO

Aave issues $GHO, a stablecoin minted by borrowers against collateral supplied to Aave markets, with the borrow rate set by governance. It runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche and Gnosis.

Ondo USDY

Ondo issues $USDY, a yield-bearing token backed by short-term treasuries and bank deposits, for holders outside the United States. It runs on Ethereum, Solana, Sui, Aptos, Arbitrum and Mantle.

PayPal USD

PayPal USD is the $PYUSD stablecoin that Paxos issues for PayPal, backed by dollar deposits and treasuries and redeemable inside PayPal and Venmo. It circulates on Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum and Stellar.

Sky Dollar

Sky Dollar is the $USDS stablecoin minted against crypto collateral in the Sky protocol, and holders can lock it in the Sky Savings Rate. It runs on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Solana.

Tether

Tether issues $USDT, a dollar stablecoin backed by reserves held off chain and redeemable with the issuer. The token circulates on Ethereum, Tron, Solana, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Avalanche and TON.

Usual USD0

Usual issues $USD0, a stablecoin backed by tokenized treasury bills, and a locked version that passes protocol revenue to holders. It runs on Ethereum and Arbitrum.