Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Coins

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, recreates traditional financial services such as lending, borrowing, trading, and earning yield using smart contracts instead of banks and brokerages. The tokens in this category usually govern those protocols or capture a share of the fees they generate, giving holders influence over parameters like interest rates, collateral types, and treasury spending. DeFi is one of crypto's most consequential use cases because it makes financial tools open and permissionless, but the same openness concentrates real risks. When evaluating these assets, consider how a protocol actually earns revenue, how much value it secures, how its governance works, and whether its token has a clear claim on that economic activity. Honest context matters here: smart-contract bugs, exploits, oracle manipulation, and volatile collateral have all caused sudden, large losses, and many tokens trade on speculation rather than durable cash flows. Regulatory treatment of DeFi also remains unsettled in many jurisdictions. Treat these tokens as exposure to early-stage financial software, where the upside of innovation comes paired with technical and economic fragility.

The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) category currently tracks 15 cryptocurrencies in our database, with a combined market capitalization of $47.81B and $1.65B in reported trading volume over the past 24 hours. The largest Decentralized Finance (DeFi) asset by market cap is Hyperliquid (HYPE), at $15.90B. Over the last 24 hours 8 of these coins are up and 7 are down, an average move of -0.51% across the category.

Within the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) category over the past 24 hours, the strongest 24-hour performer is DeXe (DEXE) at +11.09%, while the weakest is LAB (LAB) at -11.91%.

By value the category is highly concentrated: its 3 largest coins account for roughly 63.1% of the combined Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market capitalization.

In cryptocurrency markets, a category groups together tokens and coins that share a common trait — the underlying technology they use, the blockchain ecosystem they are built on, the problem they aim to solve, or the way they are issued. The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) grouping shown here reflects the classification published by CoinGecko, a widely used independent market-data provider. The table above lists every Decentralized Finance (DeFi) asset in our database, ordered by market capitalization — the current price multiplied by the circulating supply — alongside the live price, the 24-hour change, a seven-day trend line, and 24-hour trading volume, a useful proxy for liquidity and market interest.

Categories frequently overlap: a single coin can belong to several at once, so you will often find the same asset on multiple category pages, each offering a different lens on the market. Among the coins above, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) most often appears alongside Ethereum Ecosystem, BNB Chain Ecosystem, Decentralized Exchange (DEX) — listed in full under related categories below.

All figures on this page are computed from stored public market data and refreshed regularly. They are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial advice, a recommendation, or a prediction. Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile; always do your own research and consider your risk tolerance before making any investment decision.