{"id":4170,"date":"2026-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/2026\/04\/01\/defi-total-value-locked-climbs-back-above-100-billion-as-sentiment-improves\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:02:33","slug":"defi-total-value-locked-climbs-back-above-100-billion-as-sentiment-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/defi-total-value-locked-climbs-back-above-100-billion-as-sentiment-improves\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi Total Value Locked Climbs Back Above $100 Billion as Sentiment Improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total value locked across decentralized finance protocols has climbed back above the $100 billion threshold for the first time since February, reflecting a broad improvement in risk sentiment and renewed on-chain activity across Ethereum, Solana, and emerging L1 ecosystems.<\/p><p>Aave leads the rankings with $22 billion in TVL, followed by Lido at $18 billion, Uniswap at $8 billion, and MakerDAO at $7 billion. The recovery has been broad-based, with 18 of the top 20 protocols by TVL posting positive growth over the past 30 days.<\/p><p>The resurgence has been partly driven by the return of yield-seeking institutional capital. Tokenized US Treasury products \u2014 which offer risk-free rate exposure on-chain \u2014 have grown to $8 billion in assets, up 340% year-on-year. BlackRock&#8217;s BUIDL fund alone holds $3.2 billion.<\/p><p>&#8220;DeFi is maturing,&#8221; said Aave founder Stani Kulechov. &#8220;The user base is shifting from retail speculators to institutional treasuries and sophisticated fund managers. That&#8217;s a healthier, more durable demand base.&#8221; The number of daily active DeFi wallets on Ethereum has risen to 820,000 \u2014 a 14-month high.<\/p><p>Risks remain. The KelpDAO and Volo exploits this month demonstrated that smart contract vulnerabilities continue to pose existential threats to individual protocols. Security auditing firms report a 60% increase in demand for their services compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relaterade artiklar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/aave-leads-defi-united-coalition-to-support-kelpdao-exploit-victims\/\">Aave Leads &#8216;DeFi United&#8217; Coalition to Support KelpDAO Exploit Victims<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/sui-based-defi-protocol-volo-loses-3-5-million-in-vault-exploit\/\">Sui-Based DeFi Protocol Volo Loses $3.5 Million in Vault Exploit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total value locked across decentralized finance protocols has climbed back above the $100 billion threshold for the first time since February, reflecting a broad improvement in risk sentiment and renewed on-chain activity across Ethereum, Solana, and emerging L1 ecosystems. Aave leads the rankings with $22 billion in TVL, followed by Lido at $18 billion,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[142,182,117,181],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defi","category-markets","tag-crypto-market","tag-crypto-sentiment","tag-defi","tag-total-value-locked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfinanceinfo.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}