Arbitrum chain TVL has jumped to $2.88B as Aave Protocol $AAVE, USD AI protocol, and Pendle Finance $PENDLE are its top DeFi projects when it comes to TVL.Arbitrum chain TVL has jumped to $2.88B as Aave Protocol $AAVE, USD AI protocol, and Pendle Finance $PENDLE are its top DeFi projects when it comes to TVL.

Aave, USD AI, and Pendle Finance Dominate Top DeFi Projects in TVL on Arbitrum

pendle1

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has witnessed noteworthy progress over the past 24 hours. Particularly, Arbitrum chain TVL has jumped to $2.88B as Aave Protocol ($AAVE), USD AI protocol, and Pendle Finance ($PENDLE) are its top DeFi projects when it comes to total value locked (TVL). As per the data from DefiLlama, GMX ($GMX), Uniswap ($UNI), Spiko ($SPIKO), Fluid ($FLUID), Morpho ($MORPHO), Compound ($COMP), and KernelDAO ($KERNEL) are also among Arbitrum’s top 10 DeFi projects. This remarkable DeFi growth highlights the growing risk appetite across the crypto markets.

Aave Protocol Leads Arbitrum’s DeFi Projects in Terms of TVL with $1.01B

Particularly, as the top DeFi platform on Arbitrum in terms of TVL, Aave ($AAVE) has successfully reached the $1.01B mark. Hence, the well-known DeFi lending platform occupies a cumulative 27.67% of the overall TVL of Arbitrum. After that, USD AI Protocol ($USDAI), a noteworthy RWA lending project, has gained the 2nd top status on Arbitrum with its TVL reaching $585.10M. This figure reportedly equals 16.03% of Arbitrum’s TVL.

Subsequently, standing in the 3rd rank, Pendle Finance ($PENDLE) accounts for $481.56M. With this, the yield platform has touched 13.19% of Arbitrum’s TVL. Coming after that, GMX ($GMX), which is a renowned decentralized exchange (DEX), has attained the $386.42M spot in TVL. Thus, it denotes 10.59% of the TVL of Arbitrum. The next name on the list is Uniswap ($UNI), with its TVL underscoring the $365.78M figure. As a result of this, the DEX occupies Arbitrum’s 10.02% TVL

KernelDAO Bottoms List with 3.25% Share of Cumulative Arbitrum TVL

Moving on, DefiLlama’s list of Arbitrum-based DeFi projects by TVL adds Spiko ($SPIKO) in the 6th place. Specifically, while touching $232.21M, Spiko underscores 6.36% of Arbitrum’s TVL. Additionally, Fluid’s ($FLUID) $202.13M in TVL places it at the top 7th position as it equals 5.54% share of Arbitrum’s TVL. Apart from that, Morpho ($MORPHO) and Compound ($COMP) account for $139.45M and $129.30M in TVL, expressing 3.82% and 3.54% of Arbitrum’s TVL. At the end of the list, KernelDAO ($KERNEL) occupies $118.63M in TVL, displaying 3.25% of the overall TVL of Arbitrum.

Market Opportunity
AaveToken Logo
AaveToken Price(AAVE)
$149.61
$149.61$149.61
-1.06%
USD
AaveToken (AAVE) Live Price Chart
Disclaimer: The articles reposted on this site are sourced from public platforms and are provided for informational purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the views of MEXC. All rights remain with the original authors. If you believe any content infringes on third-party rights, please contact service@support.mexc.com for removal. MEXC makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the content and is not responsible for any actions taken based on the information provided. The content does not constitute financial, legal, or other professional advice, nor should it be considered a recommendation or endorsement by MEXC.

You May Also Like

The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For

The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For

The post The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Visions of future technology are often prescient about the broad strokes while flubbing the details. The tablets in “2001: A Space Odyssey” do indeed look like iPads, but you never see the astronauts paying for subscriptions or wasting hours on Candy Crush.  Channel factories are one vision that arose early in the history of the Lightning Network to address some challenges that Lightning has faced from the beginning. Despite having grown to become Bitcoin’s most successful layer-2 scaling solution, with instant and low-fee payments, Lightning’s scale is limited by its reliance on payment channels. Although Lightning shifts most transactions off-chain, each payment channel still requires an on-chain transaction to open and (usually) another to close. As adoption grows, pressure on the blockchain grows with it. The need for a more scalable approach to managing channels is clear. Channel factories were supposed to meet this need, but where are they? In 2025, subnetworks are emerging that revive the impetus of channel factories with some new details that vastly increase their potential. They are natively interoperable with Lightning and achieve greater scale by allowing a group of participants to open a shared multisig UTXO and create multiple bilateral channels, which reduces the number of on-chain transactions and improves capital efficiency. Achieving greater scale by reducing complexity, Ark and Spark perform the same function as traditional channel factories with new designs and additional capabilities based on shared UTXOs.  Channel Factories 101 Channel factories have been around since the inception of Lightning. A factory is a multiparty contract where multiple users (not just two, as in a Dryja-Poon channel) cooperatively lock funds in a single multisig UTXO. They can open, close and update channels off-chain without updating the blockchain for each operation. Only when participants leave or the factory dissolves is an on-chain transaction…
Share
BitcoinEthereumNews2025/09/18 00:09
Trading time: Tonight, the US GDP and the upcoming non-farm data will become the market focus. Institutions are bullish on BTC to $120,000 in the second quarter.

Trading time: Tonight, the US GDP and the upcoming non-farm data will become the market focus. Institutions are bullish on BTC to $120,000 in the second quarter.

Daily market key data review and trend analysis, produced by PANews.
Share
PANews2025/04/30 13:50
South Korean Court Sentences Crypto Exchange Employee for Espionage

South Korean Court Sentences Crypto Exchange Employee for Espionage

The post South Korean Court Sentences Crypto Exchange Employee for Espionage appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Points: Employee sentenced for espionage involving
Share
BitcoinEthereumNews2025/12/30 04:09