For years, Total Value Locked (TVL) has been the canary in DeFi's coalmine. When it was up, the sector was ‘thriving'. When it was down, DeFi was ‘in decline'. During 2025, that narrative began to ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) reached a new milestone in Q3 2025, closing the quarter with a total value locked (TVL) of $237 billion. However, on-chain data tracking daily active wallets shows that ...

Solana price is 41% down in 30 days, driven by decreasing memecoin activity and a plunge in its network TVL with a SOL double-top pattern playing out. The total value locked (TVL) on the Solana ...

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This crypto guide will go over the concept of TVL in crypto. TVL, or total value locked in crypto, is a metric of stored funds, usually on a decentralized project. The crypto TVL is a proxy for ...

A new study puts DeFi’s favorite metric to the test, revealing that TVL doesn’t give investors the edge many assume it does. Algorand’s latest research reveals that TVL is not a reliable indicator of ...