State of Decentralized Finance Remains Lackluster, Value Locked in Defi Slid 67% in 6 Months

State of Decentralized Finance Remains Lackluster, Value Locked in Defi Slid 67% in 6 Months

During the last 125 days or roughly four months, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has been range bound within the $50 billion to $65 billion region. The TVL in defi has shed significant value during the past six months as it dropped from $161 billion on April 1, down more than 67% lower to today’s $51.72 billion. TVL Dropped More Than 67% in 6 Months, Defi Market Action Remains Vapid for 4 Months

Defi action has subsided a great deal in terms of the total value locked during the last six months. On Saturday, October 22, 2022, the TVL in defi is around $51.72 billion, with the collateralized debt position (CDP) protocol Makerdao commanding 14.76% of the entire TVL with $7.64 billion on Saturday morning (ET). Total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) on October 22, 2022, according to defillama.com.

In addition to Makerdao, Lido, Curve, Aave, and Uniswap make up the top five largest TVLs today. The liquid staking protocol Lido is just below Makerdao with a TVL of around $6 billion and $5,839,046,587 of Lido’s TVL is staked ethereum (ETH).

Makerdao recorded a 30-day increase in value as the TVL jumped 4.82% higher last month. Sushiswap saw a notable increase, rising 41.27% during the last 30 days, and the yield protocol Aura jumped 38.70% over the last month. TVL in defi distributed across blockchains. Ethereum dominates by 57% on October 22, 2022, according to defillama.com.

Out of all the blockchains today, Ethereum is the most dominant in terms of defi TVL with roughly 57% of the entire $51.72 billion locked in defi today. ETH has around $29.56 billion, while the second largest TVL by blockchain, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has $5.32 billion or 10.33% of the aggregate value locked.

Besides ETH and BSC, Tron, Avalanche, Polygon, and Arbitrum follow behind, respectively, in terms of TVL by blockchain. Today, statistics show there are 607 decentralized exchange (dex) protocols with $21.57 billion locked.

There are 189 lending defi apps with $13.96 billion locked on Saturday and 57 CDP protocols command $10.37 billion. There’s also a total of 45 liquid staking applications that hold $7.91 billion in value today. Cross-chain bridge market shares in decentralized finance on October 22, 2022, according to Dune Analytics.

The value locked in cross-chain bridge platforms is also down 22% lower during the past 30 days. $7.80 billion is locked on decentralized cross-chain bridge platforms with 13,178 unique depositor addresses total.

Polygon is leading the bridge pack with roughly $3.37 billion TVL, but the TVL is down 6% during the past month. Arbitrum has around $1.44 billion which is down 2% lower than the month prior.

Polygon and Arbitrum bridges are followed by Optimism, Fantom, and the Near Rainbow bridge. The smart contract platform token market cap today is worth $281 billion and it has increased 1.4% during the last 24 hours.

The top five smart contract platform tokens today in terms of market capitalization include ethereum (ETH), bnb (BNB), cardano (ADA), solana (SOL), and polkadot (DOT). ADA, SOL, and DOT have seen losses between 3.4% and 6.8% over the last week. ETH and BNB have remained in the green during the last seven days, up between 0.3% to 0.8% this past week. Tags in this story ada, Arbitrum, Avalanche, AVAX, binance coin, Binance Smart Chain, Bridges, Cross-chain Bridges, Crypto, crypto assets, decentralized finance, DeFi, Defi protocols, Defi Total Value Locked, DOT, ETH, Ethereum, Ethereum (ETH), Fantom, Near Rainbow, Optimism, Polkadot, Polygon, Smart Contract Platforms, Smart Contract Tokens, total value locked, trading, TVL, TVL in defi

What do you think about the current state of decentralized finance and smart contract platform tokens? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today. While ETHW Has Lost 35% in 2 Weeks, PoW Network’s Defi TVL Swelled by More Than 1,200% DEFI | 4 days ago Uniswap"s $165 Million Series B Capital Raise One of the Largest by a Crypto Firm in 2022 DEFI | Oct 14, 2022

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