Polygon 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 197 DeFi projects listed and 61 of them built on Polygon.

Ethereum DeFi	160
BNB DeFi	38
Polygon DeFi	61

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.

Dhedge

dHEDGE 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.

InstaDApp

Instadapp is a platform providing users and developers with a single point of integration to access all the DeFi protocols

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.

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.

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 Protocol’s smart contract system. Interview with Tokensets creators.

Trust Wallet

Multi cryptocurrency wallet to store your favorite BEP2, ERC20 and ERC721, tokens.

XDEFI Wallet

XDEFI Wallet is a cross-chain wallet extension. It is the world’s only wallet with native integrations on THORChain, Ethereum + several EVM networks and Terra.

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.

Alternative Savings Apps

PoolTogether

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

Derivatives

NFT20

NFT20 is a permissionless protocol enabling trade, swap and sell NFTs that tokenized at indices pools.

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.

Yield Aggregators on Polygon

Autofarm

Autofarm is a cross-chain yield aggregator that enables users to get the return on their assets from yield farming pools by simply staking in Autofarm vaults.

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.

Convex Finance

Convex Finance let you deposit your Curve LP tokens to earn Curve trading fees, boosted CRV and CVX tokens. Boost is pooled from CRV stakers so you do not need to worry about locking yourself.

Harvest

Harvest automatically farms the highest yield available from the newest DeFi protocols, and optimizes the yields that are received using the latest farming techniques.

Idle

Idle enables tokenizing the best interest rate among Ethereum money markets. Interview with Idle co-founder, Matteo Pandolfi.

Pickle

Pickle allow users to deposit tokens from liquidity pools such as Uniswap or Curve, and then execute sophisticated strategies that maximize the returns of the depositor

Vesper

Vesper provides a suite of yield-generating products, focused on accessibility, optimization, and longevity

Decentralized exchanges on Polygon

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.

Dodo

DODO is a on-chain liquidity provider which leverages the Proactive Market Maker algorithm (PMM) to provide on-chain and contract-fillable liquidity for everyone. DODO: Capital-Efficient Decentralized Exchange, Interview with co-founder Diane Dai.

IDEX

IDEX is a non-custodial exchange that integrates with any custody solution and allows users to trade with one another without giving up control to a third-party custodian. Interview with IDEX Exchange CEO, Alex Waern.

KyberSwap

KyberSwap is a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator which provides traders with the best token prices by analyzing rates across over 60 DEXs across 12 chains. Interview with Loi Luu, CEO and co-founder of Kyber Network.

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

ParaSwap

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.

Quickswap

QuickSwap is a permissionless decentralized exchange based on Polygon Layer 2 scalability infrastructure

Slingshot

Slingshot is a web3 trading platform aggregating DEX liquidity.

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.

DeFi Infrastructure & Dev Tooling

Chainlink

Chainlink is a decentralized oracle that can provide external data to smart contracts. Interview with Adelyn Zhou

LlamaNodes

LlamaNodes is a low-latency, privacy first RPC provider - with dynamic load-balancing, autoscaling, and globally redundant infrastructure.

QuikNode

QuikNode is a RPC node service provider with APIs & dedicated nodes available.

The Graph

The Graph is a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains. Interview with The Graph Co-Founder Yaniv Tal

Uma

UMA is a decentralized financial contracts platform built to enable Universal Market Access. Interview with co-founder of UMA, Allison Lu.

Polygon-based DAO Platforms

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.

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.

Decentralized Insurance Platforms

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

Opium Insurance

Opium Insurance offers tradable, tokenized insurance position against smart-contract hacking or against stablecoin default.

Decentralized Lending on Polygon

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.

Marketplaces

OpenSea

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

Prediction Markets

Augur

Augur is a decentralized oracle and peer to peer protocol for prediction markets.

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.

Stablecoins

DAI

DAI is a crypto-backed stablecoin soft-pegged to USD, built on the Ethereum and governed by the MakerDAO system.

Frax

Frax is the first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol. Interview with Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance