DefiLlama's public data dashboard now covers 15,181 DeFi liquidity pools across 543 chains. The pool count illustrates how fragmented on-chain liquidity has become since the multi-chain expansion that accelerated through 2024 and into 2025.
The 8,343 protocol count spans lending markets, DEXs, liquid staking, yield aggregators, CDP systems and derivatives venues. Tracking that range requires continuous integration work as new deployments go live—Ethereum L2s alone have added dozens of production protocols over the past 18 months.
The 543-chain figure marks the sharpest shift in DeFi infrastructure. At the start of 2024, most analysts focused on a handful of chains: Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain and Solana. The explosion in app-chains, sovereign rollups and alt-L1s has pushed active chain count past what any single team could monitor without automation.
On the asset side, the platform tracks 3,100 tokens alongside 417 stablecoins. Stablecoin count has risen sharply as regulatory and compliance frameworks for payment stablecoin issuers have evolved, lowering the barrier for new entrants and encouraging more institutional actors to mint their own instruments.
The 2,270 RWA entries represent one of the fastest-growing categories. Tokenized Treasuries, money-market funds, private credit and real estate products have moved on-chain as traditional finance counterparties tested settlement rails. BlackRock's BUIDL and Ondo Finance's OUSG are among the most-cited products, though the full list captures a broader field including trade finance, infrastructure debt and tokenized equities from smaller issuers.
DefiLlama also now tracks 3,238 equities and 31 ETFs—asset classes outside native DeFi. That expansion reflects the growing overlap between on-chain and traditional capital markets, particularly as tokenized equity products have moved from pilot to live trading on several regulated venues.
The 97 DAT (decentralized autonomous treasury) entries and 49 market maker entries are newer categories. Market maker coverage is notable because on-chain market making—whether through professional firms using private smart contracts or protocol-native AMM ranges—has become material to DEX liquidity structure. Tracking those actors separately from general liquidity providers gives analysts a cleaner read on where professional capital sits versus retail deposits.
The 49 market maker entries underscore a broader shift in how on-chain liquidity is sourced. Concentrated liquidity AMMs like Uniswap v3 and its forks shifted a large share of effective DEX liquidity management to active position managers. Those managers—ranging from small teams running Arrakis vaults to larger operations running proprietary rebalancing bots—now warrant their own analytics category.
At 417 stablecoins tracked, the market has grown well past the three or four dominant issuers that defined the category in 2021. Algorithmic, fiat-backed, yield-bearing and RWA-collateralized stablecoins now coexist. The yield-bearing segment has expanded as issuers pass through Treasury returns to holders directly on-chain. Tracking yield accrual across 417 instruments requires per-contract data feeds that differ structurally from simple price feeds.
Real gaps remain. Cross-chain intent networks, MEV infrastructure, restaking operators and on-chain options protocols each have distinct TVL and revenue profiles that don't map cleanly to existing categories. EigenLayer's restaking ecosystem alone involves dozens of actively validated services that sit between staking and DeFi lending economically.
Protocol revenue tracking is another developing area. DefiLlama's fee and revenue tables separate gross fees from protocol-retained revenue—the split that shows whether a protocol captures value versus routing it entirely to liquidity providers. With 8,343 protocols in the database, consistent revenue attribution across every venue remains incomplete.
