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 57 of them built on Solana.

Ethereum DeFi	171
BNB DeFi	43
Solana DeFi	57

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.

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.

Phantom

Phantom is a wallet and browser extension that can be used to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications on the Solana blockchain

Derivatives

Drift Protocol

Drift Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralized exchange built on the Solana blockchain, enabling transparent and non-custodial cryptocurrency trading.

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.

Jupiter

Jupiter is the Solana trading hub that routes spot swaps across on-chain liquidity and also runs perpetual futures and a lending market from the same app.

Pacifica

Pacifica is a perpetual futures exchange on Solana with an off-chain order book, cross-margin accounts and a vault that market makes against traders.

Yield Aggregators on Solana

Exponent

Exponent splits yield-bearing tokens on Solana into principal and yield legs, so holders can lock a fixed rate or take a position on future yield.

Decentralized exchanges on Solana

Drift Protocol

Drift Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralized exchange built on the Solana blockchain, enabling transparent and non-custodial cryptocurrency trading.

Jupiter

Jupiter is the Solana trading hub that routes spot swaps across on-chain liquidity and also runs perpetual futures and a lending market from the same app.

Meteora

Meteora runs dynamic liquidity market maker pools on Solana, where liquidity providers set bin-based price ranges and fees adjust with volatility.

OpenSea

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

Orca

Orca is a decentralized protocol that facilitates trades on Solana, as Orca is non-custodial when you trade tokens the protocol will interact directly with your wallet.

Raydium

Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity and new features for earning yield

DeFi Infrastructure & Dev Tooling

Helius

Helius provides Solana RPC nodes, webhooks and enhanced transaction APIs that decode program calls into readable events for indexing and monitoring.

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.

Realms

Realms is a platform built on Solana that provides tools for builders to create and manage their own DAO. Using Realms, builders can create their own DAO, which allows them to manage their members, vote on proposals, and allocate their treasury.

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

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.

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.

Sentora

Sentora curates DeFi strategies and runs the risk models behind them, combining allocation design with monitoring for vault depositors. It covers Ethereum, Solana and Tempo.

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

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.

Huma Finance

Huma Finance funds cross-border payment and trade receivables with liquidity supplied by lenders, who earn yield from settlement fees. It runs on Solana, Ethereum and Stellar.

Maple

Maple runs institutional credit pools that lend against tokenized collateral and issues $syrupUSDC for passive lenders. It runs on Ethereum 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.

Superstate

Superstate issues tokenized funds holding short-term treasuries and crypto basis positions, and its Opening Bell service brings registered company shares on chain. The tokens run on Ethereum and Solana.

Decentralized Lending on Solana

Jupiter

Jupiter is the Solana trading hub that routes spot swaps across on-chain liquidity and also runs perpetual futures and a lending market from the same app.

Kamino Finance

Kamino Finance aims to provide users with an easy-to-use and efficient way to manage their digital assets, earn passive income, and participate in the growing DeFi ecosystem. The platform offers a variety of features, including automated liquidity provision, lending and borrowing, and yield farming.

Maple

Maple runs institutional credit pools that lend against tokenized collateral and issues $syrupUSDC for passive lenders. It runs on Ethereum and Solana.

Marginfi

Marginfi is a decentralized lending protocol on Solana that prioritizes risk management to provide a safe and reliable solution for users looking to access leverage and maximize capital efficiency.

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.

KAST

KAST is a stablecoin account with Visa cards that spends balances held in $USDC and $USDT and pays cashback on purchases. It takes deposits on Solana, Ethereum and other major chains.

Krak

Krak is Kraken’s payments app with a Visa debit card in the US, issued by Lead Bank, and a Mastercard in the UK and EEA. Card spending sells crypto held in Kraken custody and pays cashback in dollars or bitcoin.

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

Kalshi

Kalshi is a regulated event contracts exchange in the United States where members trade binary outcomes on politics, sports and crypto, and can fund accounts with stablecoins on Ethereum and Solana.

Stablecoins

Global Dollar

Global Dollar is the $USDG stablecoin issued by Paxos under Singapore regulation, with reserve income shared among partners in the Global Dollar Network. It runs on Ethereum and Solana.

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.

Analytics

Arkham

Arkham labels blockchain addresses with the entities behind them and lets holdings, transfers and counterparties be traced across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and Tron.

Artemis

Artemis is a research platform tracking network fundamentals such as active addresses, fees, stablecoin supply and application revenue, alongside equities. It covers Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and Bitcoin.

Blockworks Research

Blockworks Research publishes analyst reports, governance coverage and data dashboards on protocol revenue and validator economics for Ethereum and Solana.

DefiLlama

DefiLlama is a multi-chain TVL stats dashboard, where data connectors contributed and maintained by a community

Dune Analytics

Dune Analytics allows you to instantly create and share analysis of Ethereum data. Smart contract data is converted to a human-readable format that can be queried with SQL. Interview with Dune Analytics co-founder.

Messari

Messari publishes research reports, protocol metrics and governance coverage for crypto assets, with screeners and diligence tools. Its coverage spans Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin.

Nansen

Nansen is an analytics platform for Ethereum, which combines on-chain data with a massive and constantly growing database containing millions of wallet labels. Interview with Alex Svanevik, co-founder and CEO of Nansen

RWA.xyz

RWA.xyz tracks tokenized real-world assets, breaking down treasuries, private credit and stablecoins by issuer, chain and outstanding supply. It covers Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, Base and Arbitrum.