Page 6 | Best DeFi Projects of 2025

@Pay

@Pay is a DEFI (Decentralized Finance) protocol that is the first BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) platform built integrating blockchain technology with its own cryptocurrency. @Pay will offer significant cost savings to all participants in the ecosystem by utilizing smart contract technology and blockchains. @Pay aims to be a key participant in offering DEFI eCommerce and in-store solutions to shoppers and merchants. @Pay will also allow users to pay for their shopping with any approved cryptocurrency that they hold in their @Pay wallet. Shoppers will be rewarded through a program that is built on allowing all contributors to the ecosystem to benefit. @Pay is powered by the @Pay token which will be used as a mechanism through which the protocol is governed. A broad distribution across the entire ecosystem including users, merchants and marketplaces will ensure that all participation is rewarded.

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Ocean Protocol

Ocean Protocol Foundation

Ocean Protocol unlocks the value of data. Data owners and consumers use Ocean Market app to publish, discover, and consume data in a secure, privacy-preserving fashion. Holders stake liquidity to data pools. Developers use Ocean libraries to build their own data wallets, data marketplaces, and more. Ocean data tokens wrap data services as industry-standard ERC20 tokens. This enables data wallets, data exchanges, and data co-ops by leveraging crypto wallets, exchanges, and other decentralized finance (DeFi) tools. Ocean makes it easy to publish data services (deploy and mint ERC20 data tokens), and to consume data services (spend data tokens). Crypto wallets, exchanges, and DAOs become data wallets, exchanges, and DAOs. Data tokens are the interface to connect data assets with blockchain and DeFi tools. Crypto wallets become data wallets, crypto exchanges become data marketplaces, DAOs for data co-ops, and more via DeFi composability.

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Arcade

Arcade is built on the Pawn Protocol, an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets commonly referred to as non-fungible tokens or NFTs. NFTs represent a revolution for storing value and attributing ownership of unique assets in the metaverse and the creator economy. A smart contract powered by state-of-the-art crypto engineering keeps your loan contracts on track, on time, easily accessible around the clock. Earn interest as a secured lender, or borrow against your NFT assets, all running on the Ethereum blockchain. Arcade is backed and trusted by world-class investors and trailblazers who believe in pushing the boundaries of web3 technology. We follow the highest blockchain industry standards. Our protocol has been stress tested and verified by industry peers to ensure security, uptime, and speed set new industry standards.

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EverSwap

EverRise

EverSwap is a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX), with a Native Coin Swap feature powered by our cross-chain bridging dApp EverBridge. To make the use of EverWallet safe, secure, and easy to use we are bringing EverSwap to EverWallet to trade (buy, sell, and transfer) any tokens available on decentralized exchanges that EverRise is on. EverSwap's Native Coin Swap provides a fast and efficient way for anyone to participate in multiple blockchain ecosystems while staying all DeFi. This utility will help make multi-chain DeFi more accessible to all by lowering barriers of entry. Instead of withdrawing to centralized exchanges and performing multiple transactions to convert between coins, users can swap between ETH (ERC-20), BNB (BEP-20), and MATIC (Polygon) in one easy step at block speed. You can now swap RISE tokens on any available chain using EverSwap. Simply connect your wallet to the network you want to transact on and it will pick the correct swap automatically.

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EverOwn

EverRise

EverOwn provides a security and decentralization solution for projects by locking the smart contract and newly generated liquidity on the blockchain in a locker accessed with a weighted community vote. EverOwn offers a win-win scenario to projects and their communities by giving developers the flexibility to access the contract when needed and giving communities governance, making the project decentralized. When a project submits its smart contract into the EverOwn locker, the ownership of that contract becomes locked to EverOwn. Ownership can be reaccessed through a weighted vote from the project's investors. This allows developers to build trust with investors while having the flexibility to access the contract for further development if needed. Governance for investors to actively participate in the project and know that the smart contract will not change without notice.

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Goldfinch

The protocol makes crypto loans without crypto collateral. This is the missing piece that finally unlocks crypto lending for most people in the world. The Goldfinch community makes loans to companies around the world, starting with emerging markets. Goldfinch expands access to capital in emerging markets where crypto can truly empower financial inclusion. By incorporating the principle of trust through consensus, the Goldfinch protocol creates a way for borrowers to show creditworthiness based on the collective assessment of other participants rather than based on their crypto assets. The protocol can then use this collective assessment as a signal for automatically allocating capital. By removing the need for crypto collateral and providing a means for passive yield, the protocol dramatically expands both the potential borrowers who can access crypto and the potential capital providers who can gain exposure.

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AdaSwap

The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens and stable coins within seconds. We are striving to be the first DEX based on Cardano! Our main goal is to develop tools for creators and users, as well as to bring high-yield staking pools and NFT content through our launchpads and marketplaces. Get access to Cardano’s top exchange platform right when it launches! Cheap fees utilized by the Cardano network. Staking rewards for ASW token holders. Exclusive airdrops of Cardano-based tokens. Secure transactions by the largest PoS blockchain. Instant swaps and liquidity. DAO governance using ASW tokens. Get access to Cardano’s top exchange platform right when it launches! Come and join our mission to revolutionize Cardano and the NFT ecosystem, new tech superior to just Cardano and art that you won't get anywhere else!

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Zenlink

An ultimate, open, and universal cross-chain DEX protocol for building DEX on Polkadot with one click. Make DEX easier, for more people. Zenlink DEX Protocol is the underlying unified and universal cross-chain DEX Protocol, which enables parachains to quickly have DEX functionality and share liquidity with other parachains. In addition, Zenlink DEX Aggregator can connect to all DEX DApps on Polkadot, which together form the Zenlink DEX Network with full liquidity. The underlying unified and universal cross-chain DEX Protocol. Plug-and-Play Polkadot Network Module based on the Zenlink DEX Protocol standard. Aggregator for connecting all DEX DApps on Polkadot, providing users with a one-click, low slippage trading experience. Each parachain builds a DEX with its own characteristics by connecting to the Zenlink DEX Module, and becomes the powerful Polkadot DEX Composable Hub.

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Polkadex

Connect hot wallets based on browser extensions, mobile phones or iPads and add on-chain trading bots to automate trading with your funds. Manage your assets with Polkadex Orderbook and delegate them to third parties. Make profits through algorithmic trading while still keeping control of your crypto assets. Leave your assets on the exchange without worrying about hacks and save on transaction fees for moving your funds in and out every time you want to trade. Trustless cross-chain bridges help to bring any blockchain token to Polkadex in a non-custodial and trustless manner. It functions through Parachain with Polkadot network and Snowfork with Ethereum network. Polkadex is built for the future making it possible to integrate with other liquidity providers using forkless upgrades. We do not have access to user funds or smart contract keys.

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Kwikswap

Kwikswap Protocol

You can expect super fast and low-cost network fees when using Kwikswap Protocol. Kwikswap is a decentralized protocol built on the Ethereum Network. Kwikswap is the first multi-chain DEX on Shiden and Reef Chain. Future iterations will also see Kwikswap DEX developed on Polygon, Acala Network and Polkadot. Kwikstarter IDO Launchpad and Kwikswap DEX are the one-stop-shop that new projects and start-ups and traders need in a completely new cross-chain ecosystem! Kwikswap is designed in a similar style to other Swap DEX UI’s to facilitate the fastest adoption. Kwikstarter is a vessel that allows for start-ups projects the ability to raise funds via LPs. It also leverages off the Kwikswap audience to keep on supporting this project through to Market Creation. The project onboarding workflow will be automated in future iterations to allow for Kwik Token holders to play an important role in fielding the right projects to launch on the Kwikstarter Launchpad.

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Saros

Saros Finance is a Solana-based Unified Suite of DeFi Products with three fundamental building blocks: SarosSwap (AMM), SarosFarm, and SarosStake, with SarosSwap being the core of the entire ecosystem. We have built Saros Finance with multiple protocols to create a super-network attracting builders and users to the Solana Ecosystem. One decentralized and permissionless platform for you to swap, stake, and invest with the low-cost, high efficiency and ultimate experience. High performance - able to process at scale -without sacrificing security and decentralization. An ultra-fast transaction with low latency, at scale.

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Port Finance

Port Finance is a non-custodial money market protocol on Solana. Its goals are to bring a whole suite of interest rate product including: variable rate lending, fixed rate lending and interest rate swap to the Solana blockchain. The current variable rate product features variable interest rates based on supply & demand, cross collateral lending, and flash loans. Port Finance seeks to be the liquidity gateway for the Solana DeFi ecosystem through simpler user interfaces, lower collateral requirements, and adjustable liquidation thresholds based on volatility and liquidity. Port’s native token will enable users to participate in governance and share in protocol fees derived from all protocol products.

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Tulip

The dApp (decentralized application) is designed to take advantage of Solana's low cost, high efficiency blockchain; allowing the vault strategies to compound frequently. This benefits farmers with higher APYs, not requiring active management, and lower gas fees. We also integrated leveraged yield farming & lending pools into the platform, providing an investment with suitable risk rewards for any DeFi user. Tulip Protocol currently offers three types of yield products, “Vaults”, “Lending” & “Leveraged Farming”. You can jump to the relevant segment of the gitbook docs, that explains the one you are most interested in!

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Bifrost

Anti-inflation, prevent the devaluation of staking assets, no lock-up position. Use vToken lending leverage to expand staking principal. Business parameters can be adjusted through democratic governance.No matter which validator you staking with, you will receive the token and rewards. A voucher Token, or token, is a kind of Polkadot or Substrate Based general-purpose asset minted by users through the Bifrost network using Staking assets. the token represents the ownership and reward right of the original Staking assets. The Staking rewards generated by Staking is an alternative frangible asset with trading liquidity, which can unlock the liquidity of the original Staking or even become a new Staking asset to help users doing leveraged transactions. token also has six features, including traceability, governance, cross-chain, full reserve, alternative and full scenario.

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Liqwid

Liqwid Labs

Liqwid is an open-source, algorithmic and non-custodial interest rate protocol built for lenders, borrowers and developers. Users can securely earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with ease while earning yield on ADA from four yield streams. Borrow any asset supported by the protocol against your qToken balance instantly with no trading fees and no slippage at a competitive APR directly on the Cardano blockchain. Utilizing the Liqwid protocol unlocks access to a global liquidity pool for each asset. A borderless decentralized marketplace for lenders and borrowers built on Plutus smart contracts. Unlock liquidity and remain long by tapping into the value of your crypto holdings to borrow stablecoins or crypto assets against it. This is the HODL way!

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Optim Finance

Optim Finance is a suite of products designed to optimize yield generation in the Cardano DeFi ecosystem. Easy, automated, secure asset management. Innovative passive investments vehicles that optimize yield for your assets. Multiple strategies per vault increase APY and update to capture the best new yield opportunities. Easy deposits and withdrawals. Secure and audited contracts. Auto-management of DEX LP positions. Maximize yields with auto-compounding. Minimize impermanent loss with volatility auto-liquidation. Want to both auto-compound + go long on your earned governance tokens? Set to 50/50 hold/harvest and forget. Automatically shift your assets between lenders to earn the best interest rates on the market. Simple, straightforward lending optimized with Optim.

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Ardana

Ardana is a decentralized stablecoin hub which will bring the necessary DeFi primitives needed to bootstrap & maintain any economy to Cardano. Allows users to borrow stablecoins against locked collateral. Secure store of value preserving value even in volatile markets. Built utilizing Cardano’s speed, scalability and security. Unbiased, collateral backed and pegged to the US Dollar.

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MELD

MELD is the first DeFi, non-custodial, banking protocol. You can securely lend & borrow both crypto and fiat currencies with ease and stake your MELD tokens for APY. Get an instant loan against your cryptocurrency holdings at a competitive APR or get a credit line and only pay interest on what you use. The MELD protocol is built on the Cardano blockchain, a next generation blockchain delivering fast, safe and cost effective infrastructure for a new generation of DeFi.Dont let today's small expenses erode your crypto investments. Leverage the value of your crypto to borrow cash when you need it.A world-class DeFi protocol, MELD uses smart contracts to ensure complete transparency and fairness for all parties. Economic and political changes can’t alter MELD’s smart contracts. Our DeFi protocol is safe from changing laws or unexpected events. Let your crypto work for you. Earn yields from our staking pools as well rewards in the MELD token.

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Matrixswap

Virtual AMM-based perpetual swaps trading protocol allowing up to 25x leverage and infinite on-chain liquidity. Long or short any crypto asset with infinite on-chain liquidity. Convert multiple tokens into one single asset under one transaction via our DEX Aggregator. Built on top of Polygon Network, easily swap your favorite tokens for the best prices. Matrixswap will be deployed on Cardano, Polkadot, and Polygon.

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Grape Protocol

Grape

If disaster strikes, the community can be recreated from scratch. User's social accounts, permissions, roles, and achievements are stored forever in the Solana Blockchain, ensuring the identification of members even after the community has been de-platformed. The community is now censorship-resistant! Aggregate community and user verifiable statistics that will last forever, powered by Solana. Constant engagement and moderation is time-intensive task for group admins. Our dynamic balance-based membership tools promote user activity and assign the appropriate roles without the need of a server administrator. Connecting members' social accounts to unique cryptographic keys is at the core of our dynamic balance-based membership solution. Users gain permission and access rights based on their wallets balances, providing direct proof of "skin in the game" for every community member.

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1Sol

1Sol Protocol is a cross-chain DEX aggregator for decentralized protocols on Solana, enabling the most seamless, efficient and protected operations in DeFi. With DeFi infrastructure rapidly growing, aggregators in high demand, cross-chain transactions being the future, 1Sol is born to bring together liquidity from both DeFi and CeFi (swaps, order book DEX(s), OTC, etc.) for multi-chains. First of all, create accounts and you need to have your gas credits ready. 1Sol Smart Calculator will do the price comparing and the work of finding the best route, in milliseconds. You confirm the transaction, then we swap it. You don’t need to care about the technical details. Once everything’s done. We transfer you back the max amount of tokens you swapped. Swaps, order books, CeFi markets, OTC markets, NFT trading aggregation, GameFi loot box and accessories trading markets, 1-step lending & borrowing, and much more.

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LIQ Protocol

A decentralized on-chain liquidation engine powering Serum markets & lending platforms on the Solana network. LIQ Protocol is an on-chain liquidation protocol built for Serum DEX margin markets and lending platforms on the Solana network. The protocol provides liquidity through its engines to manage liquidations full-time for Solana-based margin/borrowing projects, which allows projects to have a solidified backend for dealing with settlement liquidity. The liquidator checks for overexposed accounts and prepares those accounts for liquidation, then provides funds to the liquidated accounts liabilities, and in return receives funds from the liquidated account’s collateral. The liquidator's profits are split between going back to the liquidator's insurance fund and buying back LIQ for staking rewards. Solana is a high-performance and permissionless blockchain that is part of the next generation of cryptocurrency technology.

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01

Tight spreads, low fees and interest-bearing deposits. Experience the efficiency of a centralized exchange, and more, in a fully decentralized environment. Powered by the Serum limit order book, decentralized from top to bottom. All deposits earn passive APY through 01's borrow lending pools. Increase capital efficiency by collateralizing directly with any tokens. Augment buying power through the leverage that is shared across all positions. Sub-milli-cent blockchain transactions fees, only on Solana. Trades executed instantly confirmed in seconds (instead of hours elsewhere). 01 offers powerful deep liquidity perpetual futures markets, empowering traders with up to 20x their buying power. 01 is the first protocol to introduce order book-based power perpetuals, a novel asset type providing global option-like exposure. All deposits on 01 accrue passive APY through algorithmic borrow lending markets.

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MeanFi

MeanFi finds you the best prices across multiple DEXes by optimizing routing, fees, slippage, and pricing impact. The best exchange rates across Solana. DCA allows you to invest a little every week, and see your savings stack up. Time in the market beats timing the market. Sending recurring remittances or paying employees? Stream it, it's easier, convenient, and maintenance-free. MeanFi does to money what Spotify did to music. Mean DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with a single purpose, which is to build the decentralized products and blockchain infrastructure necessary to act as the financial equalizer for people and businesses worldwide. To fulfill this ultimate goal, the DAO funds and operates the Mean Protocol and the MeanFi web3 decentralized app. The Mean Protocol is a set of rules and interoperable smart contracts that help application developers facilitate everyday banking workflows and investment banking operations.

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Maiar Exchange

Maiar

Join the natural evolution of DeFi with powerful financial products on a truly scalable architecture. Securely swap between crypto-assets with extremely low slippage and minimal fees. Earn yield from transaction fees and liquidity incentives. As a core DeFi building block, Maiar DEX can easily be integrated into your app. Decide the path for the future of financial services using the MEX governance token. It's a DEX AMM running on the Elrond Network. It is built by the same team that has built the Elrond blockchain. You could call it the "official" DEX. There can be any number of DEX-es built on Elrond, but the team wanted to build the first one because it is special. Providing liquidity on the Maiar Exchange gives you LP tokens, like most AMM DEXes. Uniquely in the space, the Maiar Exchange LP tokens are tradeable. This means you can provide liquidity, then sell your position, or take a loan against it (use LP tokens as collateral).

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Rango Exchange

Rango is the first and most intuitive UX that integrates multiple aggregators (e.g. 1Inch) with multiple X-Chain solutions (e.g. Thorchain) to provide the best liquidity and optimized path in a secure and easy-to-use solution. Rango exchange provides a versatile API that helps dApps and wallets get free from the hassles of connecting to dozens of blockchains, tracking transactions, verifying third-party providers, etc. The whole idea behind our API is to make it the easiest possible solution on the market. The API consists of just a few endpoints that have abstracted away a very huge amount of complexity on the server's side, such that making a fully-working cross-chain dApp over cosmos, Ethereum-based blockchains, and UTXOs is a piece of cake. Our service is currently free. But to use our API endpoints, you should request an API key, describing your dApp, the blockchains you like to connect to, and your dApp domain if it's a website to enable CORS headers for your API key.

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Umee

Simplest way to start your DeFi experience for staking, rates, and interoperable solutions across blockchains. Umee is a layer one blockchain for cross-chain communication and interoperability, built on the Cosmos SDK and powered by Tendermint Consensus along with a self-sovereign validator network. Interoperability is achieved using Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC), Gravity bridge, and decentralized infrastructure for creating a universal cross-chain DeFi hub toward expanding the crypto ecosystem. A DeFi platform designed towards integrating with money legos, that interconnects crypto markets across networks, allows for the development of open finance innovation including multi-chain staking, interchain leverage, and cross-chain interest rates. As a base layer blockchain, applications and money lego primitives can be built on top of Umee to access cross-chain leverage and liquidity.

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KyberSwap

KyberSwap is DeFi’s first dynamic market maker, providing the best token rates for traders and maximizing returns for liquidity providers, in one decentralized platform. With our Dynamic Trade Routing technology, we aggregate liquidity from multiple DEXs (including KyberSwap) and identify the best trade route for you. Swap your tokens at the best rates. Earn fees and rewards by depositing your tokens into our pools. We can amplify liquidity pools to provide much higher capital efficiency and better slippage for you. Deposit fewer tokens and still achieve better liquidity and volume. We adjust trading fees dynamically based on market conditions to give you the best returns. Deposit your tokens and farm attractive rewards. We collaborate with projects to get you the best rewards. Anyone can provide liquidity to KyberSwap by depositing tokens. Anyone can access this liquidity from KyberSwap for their own use case.

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Enzyme

Too many DeFi projects to follow? Too busy to put your own money to work? Find a vault with a proven track record on Enzyme, and free yourself from the day-to-day hassles whilst retaining full custody of your assets. You can filter strategies by assets, risk and performance, and find one that fits your risk profile. Enzyme enables you to retain custody of your assets at all times. Your money goes where you want it to, whenever you want. Enzyme provides full transparency about how strategies are performing, together with information about how they’re set up, operated and composed. Enzyme empowers you to build and scale vaults based on the investment strategies of your choice - from discretionary and robo to ETFs and market-making. Security is our priority. Our second-generation smart contract-enforced platform is thoroughly tested and audited before any mainnet deployments are made.

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Hashflow

Exchange OS is the ZK Settlement Layer that makes it easy for any exchange to prove its off-chain transactions on-chain. Off-chain pricing leads to tighter quotes, giving you more bang for your buck. All Hashflow quotes are executed at the displayed price, what you see is what you get. Hashflow’s RFQ liquidity gives users access to the best-guaranteed prices and MEV-protected trades directly from professional market makers. Cryptographic signatures make front-running impossible. Keep what you earn. Trade with no additional fees and gas fees up to 50% lower than popular AMMs. Now you can leverage advanced pricing algorithms to earn highly competitive yields by simply depositing liquidity, letting them do the work for you. Pools are continually monitored to prevent impermanent loss. Most DEXs rely on automated market makers to enable the buying and selling of assets, and although important, they’re far from perfect.

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Compare the Top DeFi Projects as of October 2025 - Page 6