Awesome DeFi 
List of decentralized finance projects on Ethereum.
Ethereum Layer 2
SideChains
Lending
- Compound Compound is an algorithmic, autonomous interest rate protocol built for developers, to unlock a universe of open financial applications.
- aave Aave is an Open Source and Non-Custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets. The protocol features Flash Loans, the first uncollateralized loan in DeFi.
- Reflexer GEB is a framework for deploying systems that can issue reflex indexes. Reflex indexes are assets that dampen the volatility of their underlying collateral.
- Yearn Yearn Finance is a suite of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that provides lending aggregation, yield generation, and insurance on the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol is maintained by various independent developers and is governed by YFI holders.
- Cream Finance Crypto Rules Everything Around Me. C.R.E.A.M. Finance is a peer to peer lending and exchange platform on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain.
- Venus A Decentralized Marketplace for Lenders and Borrowers with Borderless Stablecoins.
- Dharma The easiest place to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies.
- bxz Build applications that empower lenders, borrowers, and traders with the most flexible decentralized finance protocol on Ethereum.
- maple The Maple protocol offers the most capital efficient option for institutional borrowing and fixed income lending in decentralized finance.
- Teller Teller connects to your bank account to offer risk-assessed loans, without the need for collateral.
Exchanges & Liquidity
- Uniswap A fully decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum.
- whitepaper
- github
- docs
- sorce code
- Curve Curve is an exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum designed for: extremely efficient stablecoin trading, low risk, supplemental fee income for liquidity providers, without an opportunity cost.
- Loopring Loopring is an open-sourced, audited, and non-custodial exchange protocol, which means nobody in the Loopring ecosystem needs to trust others.
- ZKSwap ZKSwap is an AMM modeled layer-2 dex using ZK-Rollups technology. ZKSwap has fully enabled trustless and gas-free payment and transfer (ZKPay) and gas-free, real-time, and infinitely scalable token swaps (ZKSwap) on Ethereum layer-2.
- 1inch 1inch offers the best rates by discovering the most efficient swapping routes across all leading DEXes. Market. Limit.
- Mooniswap Exchange
- Alpha Homora V2 Alpha Homora V2 is a leveraged yield farming and leveraged liquidity providing protocol.
- AirSwap
- 0x 0x is an open protocol that enables the peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Sushiswap SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX) currently on the Ethereum blockchain. We are soon expanding our offerings with the BentoBox lending platform.
- kybernetwork
- Bancor The Bancor Protocol is a fully on-chain liquidity protocol that can be implemented on any smart contract-enabled blockchain. The Bancor Protocol is an open-source standard for liquidity pools, which in turn provide an endpoint for automated market-making (buying / selling tokens) against a smart contract.
- Balancer Balancer is an automated portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. Balancer turns the concept of an index fund on its head: instead of a paying fees to portfolio managers to rebalance your portfolio, you collect fees from traders, who rebalance your portfolio by following arbitrage opportunities.
- Ren A network of virtual computers that powers interoperability for decentralized applications, enabling cross-chain lending, exchanges, collateralization & more.
- Harvest
- IDEX Trade without compromising performance or security.
- ZKSwap ZKSwap is an AMM modeled layer-2 dex using ZK-Rollups technology. ZKSwap has fully enabled trustless and gas-free payment and transfer (ZKPay) and gas-free, real-time, and infinitely scalable token swaps (ZKSwap) on Ethereum layer-2.
- LIDO Lido is a liquid staking solution for ETH 2.0 backed by industry-leading staking providers
- Value DeFi
- CowSwap
- liquality Atomic Swap Crypto Across Blockchains Without Having To Trust A Custodian Or Counterparty.
- atomex Hybrid exchange based on atomic swap technology and multicurrency HD wallet.
- totle Totle is a non-custodial, smart-order routing platform that provides access to DeFi liquidity pools via a simple API.
- KeeperDAO KeeperDAO is building a decentralized protocol for Keepers that will help make Ethereum a more secure, egalitarian, and profitable network for all.
- Fulcrum Fulcrum is a powerful DeFi platform for tokenized lending and margin trading.
- Paraswap ParaSwap aggregates decentralized exchanges and other DeFi services in one comprehensive interface to streamline and facilitate users' interactions with Ethereum's decentralized finance.
- Beefy Finance Yield Optimizer On Binance Smart Chain.
- BurgerSwap
- DoDo DODO is a decentralized exchange platform powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm.
- Hop.Exchange Hop allows you to quickly bridge assets between L1 and various L2 solutions.
Derivatives
- Synthetix Synthetix is a derivatives liquidity protocol providing the backbone for derivatives trading in DeFi, allowing anyone, anywhere to gain on-chain exposure to a vast range of assets.
- dydx The most powerful open trading platform for crypto assets.
- opyn Opyn builds protocols on Ethereum that allows users to buy, sell, and create options on ERC20s. DeFi enthusiasts and projects alike rely on Opyn’s smart contracts and interface to hedge themselves against DeFi risks and take positions on different cryptocurrencies.
- RibbonFinance Ribbon Finance is a new protocol that creates crypto structured products for DeFi.
- Lien A protocol for creating Options and Stablecoins out of ETH.
- UMA UMA enables anyone to build decentralized financial products.
- MCDEX Monte Carlo Decentralized Exchange
- Derivadex Until now, traders have had to choose between performance and security.
- opium.network pium is a universal and robust protocol that allows for creating, settling, and trading any decentralised derivative.
- HEGIC
Stablecoins
- Maker Dao MakerDAO enables the generation of Dai, the world's first unbiased currency and leading decentralized stablecoin.
- Fei Protocol FEI is a new kind of stablecoin. It is more capital efficient, has a fair distribution, and is fully decentralized. The protocol uses the value it controls to maintain liquid secondary markets.
- Idle Idle is a decentralized protocol dedicated to bringing automatic asset allocation and aggregation to the interest-bearing tokens economy. This protocol bundles stable crypto-assets (stablecoins) into tokenized baskets that are programmed to automatically rebalance based on different management logics.
- Ampleforth The elastic supply protocol.
- Terra Using a combination of open market arbitrage incentives and decentralized oracle voting, the Terra protocol creates stablecoins that consistently track the price of any fiat currency.
- MSTABLE mStable is an autonomous and non-custodial infrastructure for pegged-value crypto assets. The protocol was created to address three major problems.
- HUSD Combining the stability of the U.S. dollar with the efficiency of blockchain technology, HUSD is designed to be secure, liquid and convenient.
- AUGMINT
Prediction Markets
- Augur Prediction Market Protocol and Client.
- GnosisDAO GnosisDAO is a collective that uses Gnosis products to transparently guide decisions on development, support, and governance of its token ecosystem.
- Polymarket Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform, harnessing the power of free markets to demystify the real world events that matter most to you.
- Omen
DAO
- Badger DAO
- Aragon
- COLONY Colony makes it easy for people all over the world to build organizations together, online.
- DAOstack DAOstack is an open source project advancing the technology and adoption of decentralized governance.
- PieDAO PieDAO is a community DAO focused on tokenising automated wealth creation strategies.
- DAO Haus HausDAO is the hub from which each working group requests their budget. Each ‘Department’ has its own DAO for optimal autonomy.
- DXdao The DXdao is a decentralized organization initialized in May of 2019 and has over 400 unique stakeholder addresses.
Insurance
- ETHERISC Decentralized insurance protocol to collectively build insurance products.
- Nexus Mutual A people-powered alternative to insurance, built on Ethereum.
- VouchForMe
Asset Management
- METAMASK MetaMask is an extension for accessing Ethereum enabled distributed applications, or "Dapps" in your browser!
- Coinbase Wallet The secure app to store crypto yourself Store all your crypto and NFTs in one place, trade 500+ assets on DEXes and earn interest. No Coinbase account required.
- Trust Wallet fast and secure multi coin wallet that’s easy to use. ERC20 Compatible
- Rainbow the Ethereum wallet that lives in your pocket
- InstaDApp Scaling DeFi for users and developers with Smart Accounts.
- argent Argent is the world's most simple and safe crypto wallet. In one tap you can earn interest and invest; borrow, store and send. Argent is the easiest way to access DeFi.
- Authereum Authereum is an Ethereum-based wallet and dApp login solution. It allows users to easily interact with web 3 applications via any browser, using nothing but a username and password.
- Gnosis Safe Gnosis Safe Multisig is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum.
- MyEtherWallet MyEtherWallet (MEW) is a free, open-source, client-side interface for generating Ethereum wallets & more. Interact with the Ethereum blockchain easily & securely.
- DeBank DeFi Wallet for you to track DeFi portfolio, explore DeFi project, compare DeFi rates, analyze DeFi risk and manage DeFi assets.
- Zerion Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows users to deposit, invest, trade, lend, and borrow DeFi assets. With Zerion, users can manage their entire DeFi portfolio across different protocols and multiple wallets, in real time.
- liquality wallet
- Atomex Crypto Wallet Multicurrency HD wallet with built-in hybrid atomic swap exchange
Tools
- Zapper zapper is the ultimate hub for Decentralized Finance aka DeFi. Our mission is to increase the GDP of DeFi by abstracting the complexities of accessing unique opportunities faced by retail investors, fund managers and builders around the world.
- ETHEREUM PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVICE Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) is a decentralized protocol allowing Ethereum users to receive notifications for on-chain or off-chain activity.
- ENS The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain.
- WalletConnectWalletConnect is an open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking.
- INFURA Our suite of high availability APIs and Developer Tools provide quick, reliable access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks so you can focus on building and scaling next generation software.
- Mirror
Oracles
Data & Analytics
- etherscan
- CoinGecko
- DeFi PULSE
- Dune Analytics
- CoinMarketCap
- ETH Gas Station
- blocknative
- DeFiprime
- LoanScan
- Bloxy
- Nansen
