Optimism 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 47 of them built on Optimism.

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.

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.

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.

Derive

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

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 Optimism

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.

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.

PoolTogether

PoolTogether is a no-loss, audited savings game powered by blockchain technology. Interview with PoolTogether co-founder.

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.

Veda

Veda builds the BoringVault standard that exchanges and wallets embed to offer yield products, with whitelists and deposit permissions per vault. It runs on Ethereum, Optimism, Hyperliquid and Plasma.

Decentralized exchanges on Optimism

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.

Curve

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

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

OpenSea

OpenSea is a peer to peer marketplace for crypto collectibles. Interview with OpenSean co-founder Devin Finzer.

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.

Velodrome

Velodrome is the vote-escrow exchange on Optimism where $VELO lockers vote each epoch to direct emissions to liquidity pools and receive the fees from them.

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.

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.

Decentralized Insurance Platforms

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.

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.

Decentralized Lending on Optimism

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

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

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.