DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-11-02DeFi Week 45: TVL falls 4.2% on a $6.3B Binance breach, and Maple's $2.3B exit was a relabellingDeFi TVL fell 4.17% to $82.31B in the week to 1 November and the ether-denominated book fell 1.81%, its first weekly decline in four weeks; a $6.3B breach at Binance drove the repricing, and Maple's $2.34B one-day 'exit' was a move between its own chain legs.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-10-26DeFi Week 44: TVL slips 1.3%, ether deposits rise a third week, and a millionth of a token empties X100DeFi TVL fell 1.35% to $89.38B in the week to 25 October while the ether-denominated book rose 0.80% for a third straight week; LayerZero V2's $4.2B "gain" was a Polygon coverage step that the chain's own total never saw, and a flash-loan vote won by one millionth of a token took $4.85M from X100.3
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-10-19DeFi Week 43: TVL falls 3.3%, deposits rise in ether, and $543M lands in two Base vault booksDeFi TVL fell 3.35% to $88.89B in the week to 18 October while the ether-denominated book rose 2.06% for a second week; $543M landed in two Base curator books on 13 October, UNCX's exploit carried three different price tags, and Spark passed a 100M sUSDS bridge to Arbitrum.
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-10-12DeFi Week 42: TVL falls 4.6% as a $1.19B flush hits ether, deposits rise in ETH termsDeFi TVL fell 4.6% to $92.10B in the week to 11 October as a $1.19 billion liquidation flush hit ether, while the same book rose 3.84% measured in ether — the gap that separates this week's repricing from real flows.
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-10-05DeFi Week 41: TVL slips 0.25% as Balancer votes to wind downDeFi TVL held near $95.3B, down 0.25%, as Balancer's holders voted to shut the protocol down, a $3.65B LayerZero "gain" proved a data step, and NEAR Intents lost and recovered $3.8M.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-09-28DeFi Week 40: TVL adds 1.5% as a governance attack drains NeutronDeFi TVL rose 1.5% to $95.49B, a gain ether's own price supplied, while a governance attack drained Astroport and Drop on Neutron and Bitget lost $387.5M.2
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-09-21DeFi Week 39: TVL gains 6.6% as ether's price does the workDeFi TVL rose 6.6% to $93.12B, a move that tracked ether's own price, while Nostra lost $3.5M to a manipulated oracle on Starknet and Arbitrum's DAO permanently banned three grant recipients.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-09-14DeFi Week 38: Spark adds $551M as bridge exploits and Aave rate hikes reshape riskDeFi TVL held near flat at $88.56B as Spark expanded by $551M, Nomic's $3.15M bridge exploit diluted Osmosis allBTC, and Aave hiked USDe borrowing rates.2
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-09-07DeFi Week 37: TVL rebounds 3.36% as SSV leads protocol gainsDeFi TVL rose 3.36% across the weekly snapshots, with SSV Network leading protocol gains, Aquifer's Solana exploit still unresolved, and reward-heavy APYs requiring exit-liquidity checks.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-08-31DeFi Week 36: $75M Tectonic exploit meets a flat TVL weekA near-flat weekly TVL reading masks large protocol-level balance moves, Cronos's Tectonic rollback, Moonwell's documented Base exploit, Solana's finalized issuance vote, and reward-heavy yield anomalies.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-08-24DeFi Week 35: TVL jumps 25.1% as Gnosis sets an L1-to-rollup pathA 25.1% rise in reported DeFi TVL meets a flow-versus-valuation check, GnosisDAO's L1-to-rollup vote, four security incidents, and extreme yields that require liquidity and accounting checks before a position decision.1
DeFi TVL Ranking & Protocol Anomalies2026-08-17DeFi Week 34: TVL slips 0.49% as Spark rotation and Harmony risk split the screenDeFi TVL fell 0.49% this week, but Spark Liquidity Layer and Sky Lending diverged sharply while a Harmony supply exploit, governance executions, and reward-heavy APYs set the risk screen.1