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 212 DeFi projects listed and 63 of them built on Polygon.

Ethereum DeFi	171
BNB DeFi	43
Polygon DeFi	63

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.

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

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.

TokenPocket

TokenPocket is a multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet on both mobile and desktop with built in dApp browsers.

Trust Wallet

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

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

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.

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 Polygon

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.

Mellow

Mellow provides modular vault contracts that curators configure with their own strategy and risk limits, including restaking allocations. It runs on Ethereum, Monad and Polygon.

PoolTogether

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Quickswap

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

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.

Chainlink

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

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.

QuikNode

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

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.

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.

Decentralized Insurance Platforms

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.

Immunefi

Immunefi hosts bug bounty programs where researchers report vulnerabilities to protocols and are paid on a severity scale. It covers Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and BNB Chain.

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.

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 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.

Payments Solutions and Service Providers

BitPay

BitPay processes crypto payments for merchants with invoices, hosted checkout and settlement in fiat, and issues a prepaid card for spending balances. It supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon and Solana.

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.

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.

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