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Defi Lending Sector Experiences Major Shake-Up: 71% of Total Value Locked Evaporates in 12 Months

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Defi Lending Sector Experiences Major Shake-Up: 71% of Total Value Locked Evaporates in 12 Months


Decentralized finance (defi) has continued to remain deeply ingrained in the cryptocurrency economy as the ecosystem provides users with a non-custodial way to exchange digital assets, lend cryptocurrencies, issue stablecoins, and ways to profit from arbitrage. In the lending sector of defi, a lot has changed during the last 12 months as lending applications like Terra’s Anchor Protocol bit the dust, and 71.95% of the total value locked in defi lending protocols evaporated. From $37 Billion to $10 Billion: The Top Five Defi Lenders Then and Now


Last year around this time, decentralized finance lending protocols held $37.41 billion in total value locked (TVL), and the defi protocol Aave dominated with $12.87 billion. An archive.org snapshot from Jan. 10, 2022, shows that Aave’s $12.87 billion TVL was larger than the TVL the top five defi lending protocols held on Jan. 17, 2023. Top five lending protocols by total value locked on Jan. 10, 2022.


Data shows that the top five defi protocols in mid-Jan. 2023 include Aave ($4.58 billion), Justlend ($3.02 billion), Compound ($1.85 billion), Venus ($813.63 million), and Morpho ($221.59 million). Currently, all five of the aforementioned defi protocols have a combined TVL of around $10.49 billion. Top five lending protocols by total value locked on Jan. 17, 2023.


On Jan. 10, 2022, Terra’s Anchor Protocol held approximately $8.5 billion in value, but now the defi protocol is in ashes. Anchor was one of the main components in the Terra ecosystem as terrausd (UST) holders deposited UST for a 20% annual percentage rate return that compounded daily.


But in May 2022, UST depegged from its $1 parity, and Anchor holds only around $2 million today. Compound held the third-largest TVL in terms of defi lending protocols with $8.09 billion at the time. On Jan. 17, 2023, Compound’s TVL has shrunk to $1.85 billion.


The second-largest defi lending protocol today is Justlend with $3.03 billion. The Tron-based Justlend moved from the seventh-largest defi lending protocol TVL to the second by jumping from $1.72 billion to the current $3 billion. Justlend is one of the only decentralized finance lending applications that saw an increase during the last 12 months.


The fourth and fifth-largest defi lenders last year, Abracadabra and Cream Finance, are no longer in the top five standings and have been replaced by Venus and Morpho. Cream Finance is now in the 20th position, dropping from $2.14 billion to the current $42.94 million. Tags in this story Aave, Abracadabra, anchor protocol, Arbitrage, ashes, Change, Compound, cream finance, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, DeFi, defi lending, depegged, Digital Assets, drop, Economy, evaporated, Exchange, increase, Justlend, lend, lending, lending applications, lending defi, Morpho, Non Custodial, Parity, Profit, Protocols, Sector, Stablecoins, Terra, total value locked, tron, TVL, value locked, Venus


What do you think about the defi lending protocol shake-up over the last 12 months? Let us know your thoughts 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. Smart Contract Tokens, Defi Economy See Strong Growth, Market Capitalization Swells by $78 Billion in 30 Days DEFI | 3 hours ago Combined Transactions on Arbitrum and Optimism L2 Chains Outpace Ethereum"s Daily Transfer Count  DEFI | 2 days ago


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