| Liquid Staking |
Protocols that enable you to earn staking rewards on your tokens while also providing a tradeable and liquid receipt for your staked position |
| Dexes |
Protocols where you can swap/trade cryptocurrency |
| Lending |
Protocols that allow users to borrow and lend assets |
| Bridge |
Protocols that bridge tokens from one network to another |
| CDP |
Protocols that mint its own stablecoin using collateralized lending |
| Yield |
Protocols that pay you a reward for your staking/LP on their platform |
| Services |
Protocols that provide a service to the user |
| Derivatives |
Protocols for betting with leverage |
| Yield Aggregator |
Protocols that aggregated yield from diverse protocols |
| Cross Chain |
Protocols that add interoperability between different blockchains |
| Launchpad |
Protocols that launch new projects and coins |
| Indexes |
Protocols that have a way to track/created the performance of a group of related assets |
| Synthetics |
Protocol that created a tokenized derivative that mimics the value of another asset. |
| RWA |
Protocols that involve Real World Assets, such as house tokenization |
| Liquidity manager |
Protocols that manage Liquidity Positions in concentrated liquidity AMMs |
| Insurance |
Protocols that are designed to provide monetary protections |
| Leveraged Farming |
Protocols that allow you to leverage yield farm with borrowed money |
| NFT Lending |
Protocols that allow you to collateralize your NFT for a loan |
| Algo-Stables |
Protocols that provide algorithmic coins to stablecoins |
| Privacy |
Protocols that have the intention of hiding information about transactions |
| Payments |
Protocols that offer the ability to pay/send/receive cryptocurrency |
| NFT Marketplace |
Protocols where users can buy/sell/rent NFTs |
| Options |
Protocols that give you the right to buy an asset at a fixed price |
| SoFi |
Social Finance Networks |
| Options Vault |
Protocols that allow you to deposit collateral into an options strategy |
| Staking Pool |
Refers to platforms where users stake their assets on native blockchains to help secure the network and earn rewards. Unlike Liquid Staking, users don't receive a token representing their staked assets, and their funds are locked up during the staking period, limiting participation in other DeFi activities |
| Farm |
Protocols that allow users to lock money in exchange for a protocol token |
| Prediction Market |
Protocols that allow you to wager/bet/buy in future results |
| Decentralized Stablecoin |
Coins pegged to USD through decentralized mechanisms |
| Uncollateralized Lending |
Protocol that allows you to lend against known parties that can borrow without collaterall |
| Reserve Currency |
OHM forks: Protocols that uses a reserve of valuable assets acquired through bonding and staking to issue and back its native token |
| RWA Lending |
Protocols that bridge traditional finance and blockchain ecosystems by tokenizing real-world assets for use as collateral or credit assessment, enabling decentralized lending and borrowing opportunities. |
| Gaming |
Protocols that have gaming components |
| Oracle |
Protocols that connect data from the outside world (off-chain) with the blockchain world (on-chain) |