ETH Liquid Staking TVL Dips 1.3% From ATH, Holds Near Peak
The headline is a 1.3% pullback, but the structural read is that staked ETH is still up 68% over two years, and the asset class is digesting a peak rather than breaking down.
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The headline is a 1.3% pullback, but the structural read is that staked ETH is still up 68% over two years, and the asset class is digesting a peak rather than breaking down.
Monad is just the third network on Aave V3, with $15M in first-year incentives from the Monad Foundation seeding the deployment.
Three straight quarters of decline have now wiped out 56% of liquid staking's peak capital, signaling a deeper DeFi liquidity drain rather than a routine cooldown.
CryptoRank's monthly tracker now shows DeFi TVL below the $70B line for the first time since 2023, with 121 hacks and $942M in losses accelerating the year-long unwind across every major chain except…
Every month of 2026 has bled DeFi TVL, with $70B now anchoring the sector and TRON and Hyperliquid the only top-10 chains to add value this year.
Botanix's shutdown is a single datapoint, but the TVL gap — Ethereum near $39B versus Bitcoin onchain DeFi under $5B — frames what the rest of the L2 sector is now openly admitting.
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Total value locked across DeFi protocols has shed nearly $100 billion since October 2025, marking one of the sharpest…
Andrew Forson points to $150B in Treasury-bill backing for stablecoins and 20–30% monthly volume growth as evidence the core stack is thriving despite a $20B TVL pullback and $1.1B in exploits.
Decentralized finance's total value locked has shed roughly 14% since the KelpDAO exploit rattled the restaking sector…
Liquidity has not just rotated between rollups — it has bled out of the segment, with five of six major L2s shedding between 18% and 97.7% of their TVL and bridge hacks adding another $1.83B in…
Aave V3 deployed on X Layer roughly a week ago, and the chain's TVL has tripled since — the strongest 30-day inflow among major L2s and a rare triple-digit gain outside a launch window.
The SUI move is decoupling from Bitcoin's push past $82K — the catalyst is structural: a zero-fee stablecoin upgrade plus a NASDAQ-listed treasury staking 108.7M tokens out of float.
Ethereum's share of total value locked across DeFi has dropped from 63.5% to 54% so far this year, a near…
The 30-day split is a story of single-app migration versus single-app outflow — a reminder that headline TVL is a chain-level number but a per-app function.
The Ether.fi-driven inflow is the structural story; Plasma's 61.78% drop on the same timeframe shows how concentrated TVL remains in a handful of yield-bearing protocols.