{"id":24800,"date":"2025-06-20T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/defi-lending-protocols-reach-new-tvl-high-of-over-55-billion-aave-dominates-with-nearly-50-share\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:49:08","slug":"defi-lending-protocols-reach-new-tvl-high-of-over-55-billion-aave-dominates-with-nearly-50-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/defi-lending-protocols-reach-new-tvl-high-of-over-55-billion-aave-dominates-with-nearly-50-share\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi Lending Protocols Reach New TVL High of Over $55 Billion, Aave Dominates with Nearly 50% Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total value locked (TVL) in lending protocols has reached a new record of $55 billion, surpassing previous peaks recorded in 2021, 2022, and late 2024.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-lending.webp\" alt=\"1-lending\" class=\"wp-image-260735\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TVL dynamics in the lending sector compared to the rest of the DeFi segment. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/data\/decentralized-finance\/total-value-locked-tvl\/total-value-locked-by-category\">The Block<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The crypto lending segment has claimed the top spot in the DeFi Llama rankings, surpassing liquid staking, cross-chain bridges, and decentralized exchanges (DEX) in terms of TVL.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1128-1024x545.png\" alt=\"2-1128\" class=\"wp-image-260736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1128-1024x545.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1128-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1128-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1128.png 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TVL ranking by category. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/categories\">DeFi Llama<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the lending segment, Aave leads by a significant margin with $25.47 billion. The platform supports 17 networks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-635-1024x538.png\" alt=\"3-635\" class=\"wp-image-260737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-635-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-635-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-635-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-635.png 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lending protocols ranked by TVL. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/protocols\/lending\">DeFi Llama<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April, Aave&#8217;s TVL was $16.87 billion, marking a 55% increase since then. Since the beginning of the year, the figure has risen by more than 32%.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Block, in April, Aave&#8217;s average daily revenue from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/data\/decentralized-finance\/protocol-revenue\/defi-protocols-fees\">fees<\/a> was approximately $900,000. By June, this figure had reached $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three months, the AAVE token has risen by more than 65%. In comparison, Bitcoin increased by 26% over the same period.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond Aave<\/h2>\n<p>In recent months, other lending protocols such as Morpho Blue and Maple Finance have gained popularity. The TVL of the former stands at $4.23 billion, while the latter is at $1.47 billion. Their growth over the past 30 days has been 21% and 36%, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MORPHO token has increased by 12% over the past three months, while Syrup from Maple has surged by 140% since its launch in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maple Finance has attracted user attention by entering the market with undercollateralized lending based on RWA.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2024, the capitalization of the tokenized real-world assets market <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rwa-market-surges-by-over-100-billion-since-early-2024\">has increased by more than $100 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total value locked (TVL) in lending protocols has reached a new record of $55 billion, surpassing previous peaks recorded in 2021, 2022, and late 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1212,1093,1097],"class_list":["post-24800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-aave","tag-defi","tag-lending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"134","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}