Base 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 211 DeFi projects listed and 71 of them built on Base.

Ethereum DeFi	170
Base DeFi	71
Arbitrum DeFi	83

Asset Management Tools

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

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.

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

Yield Aggregators on Base

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.

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.

Spark

Spark is the Sky ecosystem lending market and savings layer, lending $USDS and $DAI against major collateral and paying the Sky Savings Rate. It runs on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Gnosis.

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.

Decentralized exchanges on Base

Aerodrome

Aerodrome is the vote-escrow exchange on Base where $AERO lockers direct emissions to liquidity pools and collect the trading fees and bribes those pools generate.

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.

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.

Privy

Privy provisions embedded wallets from an email or social login, splitting key shares so the app never holds a full key. It supports Ethereum, Solana, Base and Polygon.

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.

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.

Turnkey

Turnkey is a key management API that holds private keys in secure enclaves and signs under policies set by the developer. It supports Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin and Base.

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

Block Analitica

Block Analitica builds risk dashboards for lending protocols and curates vaults on Morpho using its own collateral models. It covers Ethereum and Base.

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.

Gauntlet

Gauntlet simulates market stress to set risk parameters for lending protocols and curates its own vaults on Morpho and Aave. It covers Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain.

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.

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.

Steakhouse Financial

Steakhouse Financial curates lending vaults on Morpho, Euler and similar venues, setting collateral, caps and oracle choices for depositors. It works across Ethereum, Base, Solana and Monad.

Asset Tokenization

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.

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 Base

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.

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.

Morpho

Morpho is a decentralized, permissionless lending protocol enabling overcollateralized loans through modular isolated markets and curated vaults across Ethereum and Base.

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.

Spark

Spark is the Sky ecosystem lending market and savings layer, lending $USDS and $DAI against major collateral and paying the Sky Savings Rate. It runs on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Gnosis.

Payments Solutions and Service Providers

Bridge

Bridge is a stablecoin API from Stripe for converting between fiat and stablecoins, issuing stablecoins and running payouts. It settles on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Polygon.

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.

Rain

Rain is a card issuing API that lets companies launch stablecoin-backed cards, with spending settled from the holder’s own wallet rather than a prefunded float. It supports Ethereum, Base, Solana and Polygon.

Sphere

Sphere is a stablecoin payments platform for businesses, with on and off ramps, cross-border payouts and an embedded ramp widget. It settles on Solana, Ethereum and Base.

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.

Limitless Exchange

Limitless Exchange is a rapidly growing prediction market platform that allows users to trade on various future events. It has established itself as the largest prediction market on the Base blockchain with over $500 million in total trading volume.

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.

Sport.fun

Sport.fun is an on-chain fantasy sports market on Base where fans trade fractional shares in athletes and payouts follow real match performance.

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.

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.