List Of DeFi Projects 2021

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A very useful list of everything going on in Decentralized Finance in 2021. The list will be updated as new projects are added.

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🍇Lending🍇

• Aave – an open source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits & borrow assets
• Akropolis – an under collateralized lending protocol aiming at DeFi yield optimisation and interest-rate sharing
• BiFi – a mutichain DeFi protcol that offers lending, staking, and pooling services
• bZx – a decentralized protocol that enables lending and borrowing for margin trading
• Centrifuge – an on-chain risk assessment and pooling infrastructure for borrowing against illiquid assets such as invoices, real estate, and commodities.
• Compound – an open-source money market protocol on Ethereum that lets users lend or borrow assets against collateral
• Cream.Finance – a Compound based open-source lending platform
• DeFiner – a globally available, decentralized lending marketplace to securely borrow and lend digital assets through smart-contracts
• Fortube – an open financial platform providing a wide range of financial services including lending, banking and stablecoins
• Impermax – a DeFi ecosystem that enables liquidity providers to leverage their LP tokens
• Inverse finance – a DAO that offers capital efficient lending, borrowing, and synthetic assets. Also offers passive investment in tokens using a Dollar-Cost Averaging strategy using stablecoin yield.
• Kava – a lending platform that accepts a wide range of digital assets for collateral as well as lending & borrowing
• Liquity – a decentralized non-custodial, immutable and governance-free borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral. Loans are paid out in LUSD – a USD pegged stablecoin, and need to maintain a minimum collateral ratio.
• Maker – a decentralized credit platform on Ethereum that supports Dai, a stablecoin whose value is pegged to USD and backed by digital assets as collateral
• Maple Finance – a corporate debt marketplace that enables institutions to borrow from Liquidity Pools funded by the DeFi ecosystem and managed by Pool Delegates.
• Notional – a fixed rate & term financing protocol using novel interest rate curves to reduce slippage
• QiDao – a defi protocol built on polygon that allows users to borrow stablecoins interest-free against their crypto assets
• Ramp Defi – a DeFi protocol that allows users to deposit staked capital and collateralize it for rUSD lending/borrowing
• Rari Capital – a yield farming protocol that rebalances users holdings across a series of DeFi protocols
• Reflexer – a non pegged stable assets protocol managed by on-chain, governance minimized, smart contract controllers
• Ruler – a lending platform where users can borrow their preferred cryptocurrency using any other cryptocurrency as collateral without the risk of liquidation
• Swap Rate – a DeFi interest rate swap tool built on the Opium protocol
• Truefi – an on-chain credit protocol for collateral-free lending
• Warp Finance – a DeFi platform that allows users to deposit LP tokens and take out stablecoin loans against them
• Wasabix Finance – a cross chain yield-backed synthetic asset and AMM DEX platform
• WePiggy – an open source, non-custodial crypto asset lending market protocol
• Wing Finance – a credit-based DeFi system that supports cross-chain digital asset lending
• Yield Credit – a P2P fixed-rate lending dapp with incentivized borrowing & lending
• Yield Protocol – a protocol offering collateralized fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending and an interest rate market

🍇Trading🍇

• 0x – a protocol for p2p exchange of tokenized assets
• AirSwap – a peer-to-peer trading network powered by Ethereum
• Balancer – a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor
• Bancor – a protocol on Ethereum for non-custodial token exchange using pooled liquidity
• Curve – a decentralized exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for extremely efficient stablecoin trading.
• DeversiFi – a high-speed, non-custodial Layer 2 exchange built with STARKs technology, allowing for 9,000+ tps with deep liquidity, low fees, privacy and speed.
• DEX AG – a trading interface that aggregates & delivers the best price across all DEXes
• Dodo – a capital-efficient on-chain liquidity provider powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm
• Energiswap – a decentralized exchange and crypto swap protocol built on the Energi blockchain
• Gnosis Protocol – a fully decentralized trading protocol that allows anyone to add any trading token pair
• Honeyswap – a fork of the decentralized exchange uniswap, built on the xDai Chain
• Idex – a decentralized L2 exchange combining the performance and speed of centralized exchanges with the security of a DEX.
• Integral – an AMM based DEX that seeks to absorb liquidity from existing exchanges and offers capital efficient trading/liquidity provision
• Jelly Swap – a peer to peer trading tool across different blockchains using atomic swaps
• KLAYswap – an AMM based DEX built on the Klaytn chain
• KyberSwap – a permissionless cross-chain atomic swap protocol, enabling trading of tokens across different chains
• YF Link – a community project building multiple DeFi products and services, targeted towards LINK holders, starting with the LinkSwap DEX
• Local Ethereum – a non – custodial peer-to-peer ETH marketplace featuring end to end encryption and on -chain escrow.
• Loopring DEX – a non-custodial Layer 2 DEX built on top of the Looping protocol
• Materia – an on-chain decentralized exchange based on DFOHub protocol
• Moonswap – an AMM DEX running on Ethereum L2 and supported by Conflux Network
• mStable – a single standard unifying stablecoins swapping and lending protocol that also reduces friction and fragmentation
• O3 Swap – a cross-chain aggregation protocol, allowing users to access multi-chain liquidity sources on one platform
• Quickswap – a decentralized Auotmated Market Maker (AMM) exchange built on polygon
• Radar Relay – a non custodial trading platform sourcing liquidity from different venues as well as its own order book
• Saddle – an automated market maker for pegged value crypto assets
• S.Finance – an automated market maker liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for efficient stablecoin trading
• Sushiswap – an automatic market maker (AMM) DEX based on a Uniswap fork
• Tokenlon – a DEX with off-chain matching, and on-chain settlement via 0x
• Uniswap – a fully decentralized on-chain protocol for token exchanges on Ethereum that uses liquidity pools instead of order books
• ZKSwap – a token Swap protocol based on Automated Market Maker that utilizes ZK-Rollup technology to provide scalablitiy and privacy

🍇Derivatives🍇

• Augur – a decentralized oracle and peer-to-peer protocol for prediction markets on Ethereum that lets anyone create a market around the outcome of any real-world event
• BarnBridge – a fluctuations derivatives protocol for hedging yield sensitivity and market price
• CompliFi – a derivatives issuance protocol combined with an Automated Market Maker (AMM)
• CVI – a crypto volatility index that works as a decentralized version of VIX for the crypto market
• dYdX – a non-custodial trading platform on Ethereum geared toward experienced traders
• Injective Protocol – a layer-2 DEX for trading crypto and synthetic asset markets with zero gas fees
• Jarvis Network – a set of protocols on Ethereum to issue and trade multi-collateralized synthetic assets, with a primary focus on synthetic fiat
• Leverj – a secure and decentralized high performance plasma based exchange
• MCDEX – a decentralized derivatives trading platform for perpetuals & futures
• Mettalex – a blockchain-agnostic decentralized commodity derivatives exchange
• Ocean Protocol – a decentralised data exchange protocol which enables data providers to monetise their private data using compute-to-data technology
• PerlinX – a synthetic asset generation & decentralized liquidity pools trading implementation of the UMA protocol
• Perpetual Protocol – a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for all assets, featuring an on-chain Virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM)
• Ren – a provider of inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications
• Saddle – an automated market maker for pegged value crypto assets
• Saffron Finance – a peer to peer risk matching engine for decentralized finance liquidity providers
• Synthetix – a decentralized platform on Ethereum for the creation of Synths: on-chain synthetic assets that track the value of real-world assets
• UMA – a decentralized protocol to enable the creation, maintenance, and settlement of financial contracts for any underlying asset
• weiWard – an on-chain repo where users can gain exposure to tokenized ETH gas without intermediaries using its ETH gas AMM

🍇Options🍇

• ACO – a decentralized and non-custodial options trading protocol
• FinNexus – a DeFi platform of decentralized options, leveraged tokens and other derivatives
• Hegic – an on-chain peer-to-pool options trading protocol built on Ethereum
• Lien – a protocol for creating Options and Stablecoins out of ETH
• Opyn – a capital efficient DeFi options trading protocol
• Pods – a decentralized non-custodial options protocol that allows users to create calls and puts and trade them in the Options AMM
• Primitive – a decentralized options market protocol
• Siren – a distributed protocol for creating, trading, and redeeming fully-collateralized options contracts for any ERC-20 token on Ethereum

🍇Payments🍇

• Flexa – a payment network that enables merchants to accept digital currencies without the risk of fraud or volatility through off-chain collateralization.
• Fuse – a blockchain payment integration for businesses
• Request Network – an open network for transaction requests. It allows anyone to create, store and access invoices and receipts in a universal, decentralized network.
• Sablier – a real-time finance protocol built on Ethereum that enables continuous, autonomous and trustless payroll.

🍇Wallets🍇

• Alpha Wallet – a mobile-based wallet built for Dapps. Do everything with only a few taps.
• Argent – a secure smart contract wallet built for simplicity, security and usability.
• Ash – a wallet interface focused on DeFi asset management powered by Melon Protocol
• Atomex – a multicurrency HD wallet with built-in hybrid atomic swap exchange
• Coinbase Wallet – a non-custodial, DeFi enabled mobile wallet that lets you securely store your tokens and collectibles
• DEXWallet – a mobile wallet for decentralized finance
• Dharma – an Ethereum non-custodial DeFi wallet
• Eidoo – a non-custodial wallet that allows users to store, exchange and transact crypto assets with a wide range of DeFi services and tools
• Gnosis Safe – a secure way to manage funds and interact with decentralized applications on Ethereum
• HB Wallet – a non-custodial DeFi-enabled wallet available on multiple platforms
• Infinity Wallet – a user-friendly, multi-currency and convenient DeFi & crypto wallet on desktop and mobile
• Math Wallet – a multi-chain non-custodial wallet with embedded browser functionality and DApp store
• Meet.One – a multi-chain DeFi wallet, non-custodial and easy-to-use
• Monolith – a decentralised banking alternative, powered by Ethereum
• My Crypto – an easy to use app that helps you create, import, and manage all your wallets
• My Ether Wallet – a free, easy-to-use and open-source client-side interface that helps you interact with the Ethereum blockchain
• MyKey – a secure multi-chain smart wallet, with trading & Defi features.
• Pillar Wallet – a next generation smart wallet with its own L2 payment network and multiple native DeFi integrations
• Poketto – a wallet that you can actually show to your parents
• Unstoppable Wallet – a non-custodial, open source and cross platform wallet, featuring advanced management & analytical tools

🍇Interfaces🍇

• APY Vision – a dashboard to view and manage your liquidity pools and track yield farming rewards
• DeBank – an all-in-one DeFi wallet with on-chain DeFi stats
• DeFi Saver – a one-stop management app for DeFi protocols, focused on creating and managing leveraged or yield farming positions, with unique automated asset management and liquidation protection features.
• DeFi Snap – a simple dashboard that helps visualize all DeFi assets and liabilities
• Dex Guru – a trading terminal that brings together permissionless, real-time data on DEX markets, on-chain research, analytics, and trade execution capabilities
• DEXKIT – an under-construction DeFi next-gen toolkit that will offer powerful decentralized trading, storing and market-making tools, starting with a SWAP aggregator using 0x API to aggregate best prices from 14 of the most popular DEXes
• Frontier – a mobile interface integrating all DeFi Protocols and Wallets, enabling users to Track, View & Manage positions in real-time without giving away their private keys
• InstaDApp – an intuitive interface on top of the MakerDAO protocol that’s optimized for users lacking advanced technical or financial experience
• Zapper – an interface where users can manage their DeFi assets and liabilities
• Zerion – an easy to use trustless banking interface utilizing popular DeFi protocols

🍇Asset Management🍇

• Alpha Homora – a leveraged yield farming/liquidity providing protocol on Ethereum. Alpha Homora is the first product by Alpha Finance Lab
• Betoken – An open crypto fund managed by code and meritocracy
• Charm – an ecosystem of DeFi products including options, leverage tokens, and liquidity managment vaults
• CoreVault – a yield farming protocol, with a deflationary token as well as unique permanent lock-up feature
• DEXTF – a decentralised asset management protocol that enables users to hold & trade different digital assets
• dHEDGE – a decentralised asset management protocol on the Ethereum blockchain enabling capital allocation through transparently tracked strategies
• Enzyme – an open-source, community-run protocol for asset management on Ethereum that enables users to create, manage, and invest in decentralized funds
• Harvest Finance – a yield farming protocol featuring multiple strategies developed and maintained by the community
• Idle Finance – a decentralized rebalancing protocol automatically optimising users digital assets allocations to third-party DeFi protocols
• Mushrooms Finance – a crypto earning vault protocol with focus on seeking sustainable yields in the DeFi universe
• OnX Finance – a defi platform for yield farming and lending liquidity provider (LP) tokens
• PieDAO – a decentralized asset manager for tokenized portfolios on the Ethereum blockchain
• Set Protocol – a protocol designed to create, manage, and obtain baskets of tokenized assets
• Vesper – a DeFi ecosystem and growth engine for crypto assets, providing a suite of yield-generating products
• Value DeFi – a flexible, optimized and profitable vault strategies and aggregation protocol
• Visor Finance – a DeFi protocol offering Smart Vaults for active liquidity management and liquidity provisioning
• xToken – an ERC20 wrapper that wraps staking, governance, and liquidity strategies into a single ERC-20 token. These tokens can be added to liquidity pools and pledged as collateral for loans
• yAxis – a community-launched meta yield-aggregator designed to deploy capital to the best yield strategy available
• Yearn Finance – a collection of community-led & developed yield farming vaults, yield aware money markets, easy swapping tools and pooled insurance coverage

🍇Infrastructure🍇

• DFOhub – an Ethereum-based Research & Development project that provides a framework for DFO’s, on-chain companies with proprietary assets and voting tokens as programmable equities
• District0x – an open-source web3 network of decentralized apps, marketplaces and communities built on Ethereum and IPFS
• EPNS – a service that allows dApps, Smart Contracts & Services to send push notifications to their users in a decentralized way
• Gelato Network – a protocol that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum.
• Graph Protocol – an indexing and query layer powering most DeFi applications today through open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL.
• Nest – a decentralized and transparent price oracles network
• PhishFort Protect – a crypto open source browser plugin that protects users in the DeFi space from phishing
• pToken – a trustless and transparent 2-way peg to teleport tokens across blockchains, without friction
• Ren – a provider of inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications
• Secret Network – Open-source blockchain that provides transaction & computation privacy by default through trusted execution environments
• Tokentax – an easy to use cryptocurrency & DeFi taxes calculator
• Tornado Cash – a fully decentralized protocol for private transactions on Ethereum

🍇Insurance🍇

• Cover Protocol – a peer to peer coverage platform using fungible tokens that enables the market set projects’ coverage prices
• InsurAce – a leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance to DeFi users
• Nexus Mutual – a decentralized insurance platform where people can share risk particularly against smart contract bugs, failure or other black swan events
• Nsure – an open insurance platform for open finance, in a marketplace model that enables risk outsourcing and underwriting

🍇Assets🍇

• Ampleforth – a digital-asset-protocol for smart commodity-money.
• Augmint – a smart contract platform that issues stable tokens targeted 1:1 to the EUR backed by collateral
• Benchmark Protocol – an uncorrelated VIX-denominated collateral asset
• Cryptex – a DeFi protocol focused on building open-source financial solutions for the global Crypto community
• Defi Pulse Index – a capitalization-weighted index that tracks the performance of decentralized financial assets
• Metronome – an autonomous portable monetary system with issuance predictability determined by code
• mStable – mStable is an autonomous and non-custodial infrastructure for pegged-value crypto assets
• Olympus – a floating algorithmic currency protocol. It features mechanisms that promotes stability and predictability for the OHM token without a peg.
• RAI – a non pegged, ETH backed stable asset
• Reserve – a decentralized stablecoin protocol enabling global and frictionless payments
• tBTC – an open-source fully Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token pegged to the price of Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain
• WBTC – an ERC20 token that is backed 1:1 by bitcoin.

🍇Stablecoins🍇

• ARCX – a synthetic asset protocol that unlocks the liquidity of interest earning assets through their native stable-coin, STABLEx
• Basis Cash – a decentralized algorithmic stablecoin inspired by the basis project
• DAI – a decentralized stablecoin soft-pegged to the US Dollar
• Frax Finance – a fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol, with parts of its supply backed by collateral and parts of the supply algorithmic.
• MAI – a decentralized, asset-backed stablecoin soft-pegged to the US Dollar
• mUSD – a single standard unifying stablecoins swapping and lending protocol that also reduces friction and fragmentation
• Neutral – a meta-stablecoin system built using a basket of multiple stablecoins to generate a lower volatility token with a reduced risk profile
• rDAI – a DeFi primitive that splits principal and interest in DeFi investments, and streams accrued interest to chosen addresses
• Reserve – a decentralized stablecoin protocol enabling global and frictionless payments
• USDx – USDx is a decentralized and synthetic indexed stablecoin introduced by dForce. USDx’s underlying stablecoins include USDC, TUSD and PAX

🍇Scaling🍇

• Bloxroute – a Layer 0 network infrastructure involving both miners & users to scale Web 3.0
• Celer – a state channels based layer 2 scaling network solution on Ethereum
• Connext – a non-custodial layer 2 payment-channel technology that enables off-chain, instant payments with low (or zero) transaction costs, helping scale the Ethereum network and paving the way for use cases like micropayments
• Lightning Network – a Layer 2 protocol on top of Bitcoin that seeks to improve scalability by moving small and frequent transactions off-chain, allowing for fast peer-to-peer transactions and low fees.
• Liquidity Network – a Layer 2 scalability solution that enables gas-less, near-instant trustless transactions & token swaps
• Loom Network – a DPOS layer 2 scaling solution that allows developers to run large-scale applications on top of Ethereum
• Loopring – an open source protocol for decentralized exchanges designed to provide matching-as-a-service, and its orders are unidirectional and do not differentiate takers and makers giving complete control to traders
• SKALE – an open-source, decentralized “elastic” blockchain network designed to scale Web3 applications. SKALE chains are configurable, application-specific blockchains or “dynamic shards” on top of Ethereum
• xDai – an Ethereum sidechain with 5-second block times, low gas prices, and a native token that’s also called xDai.

🍇Analytics🍇

• 0x Tracker – a trade explorer for 0x protocol and decentralized ERC20 token price index
• Aavescan – a live and historical rates aggregator for the Aave protocol, enabling users to understand and compare Aave yields, interest rates and liquidity
• Coin Interest Rate – a dashboard showcasing borrowing and lending rates for USDC and DAI
• DefiScan – a read-only DeFi profile explorer for Compound, Uniswap, and SpankChain
• Etherscan – a block explorer and muti-purpose analytics platform for Ethereum
• Eth Gas Station – a consumer oriented metrics & analytics platform for the Ethereum gas market
• Loan Scan – a dashboard showing the best rates to earn passive income or lowest rates to borrow crypto
• UniswapROI – a calculator to help you analyze your investments in Uniswap and find the best liquidity pools
• Whois0x – a database of wallet addresses and their linked social media accounts that also provides easy to understand DeFi stats for each address

🍇Education🍇

• Cryptofilter – a community-curated DeFi & web3 news & info aggregator
• DeFi Dad – a YouTube channel with tutorials where you can learn about new peer-to-peer (p2p) money applications built on Ethereum.
• Defi Nerd – a lending & borrowing reviews and rates comparison ressource for crypto assets
• DeFi News – a DeFi News & Education resource
• DeFi Prime – a list of the best Decentralized Finance Products
• Defi Rate – a trusted resource for DeFi research, news and interviews with a strong focus on lending rates
• DeFi Safety – a safety review site that checks the code of projects, how it was developed, tested, and then scores the results to give a safety rating.
• EthHub Weekly Newsletter – a trusted resource on all things Ethereum
• Hegion – a blockchain and crypto news resource covering Web 3.0 as well as the broader technological ecosystem
• Daily Gwei – an ecosystem that provides education, tools and resources to keep you in the loop with everything happening in the Ethereum ecosystem

🍇Podcasts🍇

• Epicenter – a podcast which interviews crypto founders, builders, and thought leaders while focusing discussions on explaining technical details, and understanding visionary concepts as well as long-term trends in DeFi and crypto
• Into the Ether Podcast – a podcast focusing on all things related to Ethereum, the leading blockchain for decentralized applications.
• Wyre Podcast – a podcast where Thomas Scaria interviews founders of top DeFi projects twice a month. Giving insight to their business as well as the technical challenges that they have overcome.
• Bankless Podcast – a podcast exploring the frontier of internet money and internet finance

🍇Newsletters🍇

• Bankless – the ultimate guide to crypto finance written by Ryan Sean Adams
• DeFi Tutorial – a newsletter focused on teaching and educating readers about DeFi with hands on video tutorials
• DeFi Value – a place to better understand and evaluate Decentralized Finance
• DeFi Weekly – a weekly in-depth review of technical achievements within decentralized finance
• Dose of DeFi – a weekly newsletter that specializes in deep dives on topics in the space
• EthHub Weekly Newsletter – a collection of the week’s Ethereum and cryptocurrency news curated by the founders of EthHub
• The Defiant – a curated list of daily news in the DeFi space explained and condensed down to a digestible level by Camila Russo
• The Daily Gwei – a newsletter that keeps you up to date with everything happening on Ethereum by Anthony Sassano

🍇Communities🍇

• Concourse Open Community – an open community of builders, enthusiasts and researchers working towards a free, bountiful and decentralized future for everyone
• DeFi Lab DAO – a spanish-speaking community promoting DeFi tools through working groups & hackathons to solve real problems in Finance
• Dai para principiantes – a spanish-first Dai and Defi educational website, tutorials & active community
• DeFi Nation – a DeFi-oriented community featuring discussions, walk-throughs, Q&A calls and more
• Ethereum Italia – an Ethereum focused community in Italy with a strong presence on all social media
• Hola DeFi – a DeFi product directory for the Spanish-speaking community
• ProstoCoin – an extensive Defi & Crypto ressource for the Russian-speaking community

List Of DeFi Projects 2021

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