| 1 | Oct 5, '25 | We've been investigating aster volumes and recently their volumes have started mirroring binance perp volumes almost exactly Chart on the left is XRPUSDT on aster, you can see the | 62× | 1.7M | 3.6k | 469 | 634 |
| 2 | Feb 15, '25 | calculated the total extracted from memes on solana: - trading bots & apps: 1.09bn - pumpfun: 492m - MEV: 1.5-2bn - Trump insiders: 0.5-1bn - Other insiders: unknown - AMMs: 0- | 41.5× | 1.1M | 4.2k | 618 | 1.1k |
| 3 | Sep 13, '25 | The problem in RWA Metrics TLDR: Figure wants us to skip our due dilligence with them, so they are trying to pressure us by slandering us publicly and privately. In this article I | 30.5× | 836k | 2.2k | 425 | 567 |
| 4 | Jul 11, '24 | compiled a (partial) list of domains connected to square space that would be at risk of being hacked rn, i'd avoid them for now | 29.5× | 807k | 1.1k | 400 | 241 |
| 5 | Sep 8, '25 | Explanation of the current npm hack In any website that uses this hacked dependency, it gives a chance to the hacker to inject malicious code, so for example when you click a "swap | 23.2× | 635k | 3.8k | 815 | 711 |
| 6 | Nov 10, '23 | absolutely unhinged 1. hacker pulled 18 ETH from tornado cash 2. hacked a total of 1,577 ETH 3. burned 1,570 ETH and sent remaining 7 ETH to themselves 4. After fees, they're left | 21.8× | 598k | 2.3k | 196 | 135 |
| 7 | Jul 11, '24 | notable domains that are at risk: | 21.4× | 587k | 1.6k | 635 | 318 |
| 8 | May 20, '24 | cobie's post made me think that rn there's no easy way to compare FDVs across coins so I built a page to estimate the price of a coin if it had the FDV of another | 19.7× | 539k | 1.4k | 151 | 563 |
| 9 | May 24, '23 | @Dynamo_Patrick @wildtiktokss men will try to decypher tiktok screenshots instead of going to therapy | 17.4× | 477k | 3.2k | 88 | 24 |
| 10 | Apr 30, '24 | Just launched a new way to check your address for airdrop allocations 1. Go to 2. Click "Check airdrops for address" 3. Input any address 4. We'll display EIGEN allocation + other | 16.3× | 446k | 4k | 808 | 2.7k |
| 11 | Apr 11, '24 | downside of EIP 3074 is that now it'll be possible to fully drain an address (all tokens, all nfts, all defi positions...) with only one bad signature | 14.2× | 388k | 953 | 107 | 107 |
| 12 | Aug 10, '24 | maker is planning to offboard WBTC due to the change in custody from bitgo is bitgo gonna fumble it's insane moat in WBTC? | 14.1× | 387k | 844 | 109 | 184 |
| 13 | Jul 17, '23 | Reminder to disable batched requests on metamask, it's enabled by default and it leaks all addresses on metamask to any RPC you use, making it possible to link all your addresses t | 13.2× | 362k | 1.7k | 504 | 791 |
| 14 | Mar 17, '24 | we built defillama extension to protect exactly against that, here's how the same scam looks like when you have our extension with "twitter phishing detction" enabled we search for | 13.2× | 361k | 2.1k | 398 | 434 |
| 15 | Aug 23, '23 | There's a new crypto scam on google Scammers will buy an ad for a proper crypto website on google, with the proper URL Then when users click on it they get sent to an ad network () | 12.4× | 340k | 842 | 300 | 77 |
| 16 | Apr 9, '23 | Built a website to check if any of your addresses got impacted by sushi hack, tells you which tokens need revoking - It will never ask you to sign anything - Even if it reports not | 12.2× | 335k | 929 | 248 | 279 |
| 17 | May 23, '22 | megathread on milady and their founders: - miya's writings - Grooming - Gaslighting - Systemspace and suicide of 17yo teen - Remilia implication proof of everything will be at the | 12.1× | 0 | 3.5k | 702 | 3.1k |
| 18 | Aug 13, '24 | calculated the value extracted from memes on solana: - trading bots: 229.8m - pumpfun: 89m - MEV: rough approximation ~200m TOTAL: 518m extracted + 270m lifetime raydium fees (not | 12× | 329k | 1.2k | 138 | 242 |
| 19 | Jul 1, '23 | 1. nuke twitter api, then people start scraping 2. oh no people are scraping our pages, lets require an account to see anything 3. oh no we're getting request-spammed from accounts | 11.8× | 322k | 2.5k | 385 | 60 |
| 20 | May 20, '23 | tldr of tornado governance hack: 1. hacker makes a proposal that executes code from a contract 2. users vote for the proposal since contract code looks good, proposal passes 3. hac | 11.4× | 313k | 826 | 146 | 195 |
| 21 | Feb 4, '24 | Ever had tokens but no gas money to use them? I built to solve this, it uses permits to do a swap that requires no initial ETH, so you can get your first ETH | 11× | 303k | 3.1k | 533 | 1.5k |
| 22 | Jun 20, '23 | Launched a crypto calendar with the most important crypto and macro events to track | 10.8× | 296k | 2.1k | 390 | 558 |
| 23 | Mar 17, '23 | I've built a smart contract that executes that bet and funded it with 1 WBTC It's here In case I win the bet all money will be spent funding defillama so we can continue building o | 10.3× | 282k | 795 | 90 | 57 |
| 24 | Mar 23, '24 | why is nobody talking about how polygon zkevm has been down for ~10h and is still down? | 9.9× | 271k | 963 | 92 | 59 |
| 25 | Oct 5, '25 | incredible things happening on CT today People complaining about defillama and linking a dune dashboard But the dune dashboard is just mirroring defillama's data by calling our API | 9.8× | 268k | 1.8k | 119 | 94 |
| 26 | Feb 15, '25 | I calculated the EV of roulette at a casino vs flipping memecoins for a moonshot user (purely based on fees paid) | 9.6× | 263k | 1.3k | 167 | 290 |
| 27 | Oct 12, '23 | People keep losing money to scams on google ads DefiLlama was impersonated, even alameda lost 100M... We have to stop this. So I built an extension that replaces the new tab page w | 9.5× | 259k | 1.7k | 435 | 404 |
| 28 | Oct 29, '25 | > blockworks becoming a data first org that's cool, you guys could start by not reselling our free data for 4.5k/yr against our ToS, even after telling us you had removed all ou | 8.9× | 244k | 2.2k | 149 | 157 |
| 29 | Sep 6, '25 | paxos proposing to spend 95% of interest earned in HYPE buybacks using the current bond/cash ratio of USDC, if USDH replaces USDC in hyperliquid, that'd be an extra 191m/yr in buyb | 8.9× | 243k | 890 | 66 | 136 |
| 30 | Feb 12, '25 | a few months ago i found out that one of our competitors, a vc-backed data site, was using our data without attribution, asked them to add it checked now and they're taking our dat | 8.7× | 237k | 1.3k | 89 | 102 |
| 31 | Aug 19, '24 | tried to try illuvium: 1. create account 2. game is pay2win so need to buy their coins 3. bridge eth to immutable 4. money got bridged to my mm wallet instead of the wallet they cr | 8.5× | 234k | 1.4k | 95 | 121 |
| 32 | Dec 23, '22 | just reached out to a protocol to let them know about an exploitable live contract and they told me that i need to kyc first to submit the bug report sigh, why do i even bother? | 8.3× | 227k | 839 | 29 | 11 |
| 33 | Feb 21, '24 | every shitcoin is gonna make its own rollup now innit? they making rollup deployment easier than launching a shitcoin | 8.0× | 220k | 900 | 76 | 255 |
| 34 | Sep 8, '25 | This is the same hack that happened before with the ledger packages It means that recently updated websites could have malicious code So if you simply just dont use your wallet on | 7.9× | 217k | 1.1k | 219 | 103 |
| 35 | Aug 15, '24 | just started tracking dexscreener fees on defillama they're making 150-250k/day by charging 300$ per token to add information like tg link and picture | 7.6× | 207k | 1.3k | 102 | 242 |
| 36 | Sep 20, '23 | brief review of friendtech's security model: - if friendtech frontend is hacked they can steal funds (just direct iframe to send the ETH) - if privy iframe is hacked they can steal | 7.5× | 204k | 855 | 146 | 195 |
| 37 | Sep 9, '24 | new llama launch! we built a new homepage experience with all the stuff you might need, plus you can customize it | 7.4× | 202k | 1.5k | 179 | 357 |
| 38 | Feb 26, '25 | ngl i find it insane how much money cexs have - binance pays a 4bn saction - bybit covers a 1.5bn hack - okx pays a 500m sanction - ... no defi protocol is generating anything clos | 7.3× | 201k | 2.3k | 84 | 137 |
| 39 | Feb 15, '25 | In a paper that analyses US spending habits, they found that for every 1$ spent on gambling, 0.99$ less was spent on long term investments, with outsized effects among poor househo | 7.3× | 201k | 1.4k | 201 | 392 |
| 40 | Jun 4, '25 | why does pump need to raise 1bn tho? how is it gonna invest that for growth if it already has made 675m and hasnt spent that either what are they planning to do with 1bn? | 7.2× | 197k | 1.5k | 47 | 60 |
| 41 | Dec 25, '22 | btw at defillama we've built a new tool for risk teams at defi protocols it shows you how much liquidity is there on-chain for any token, eg showing how much would need to be dumpe | 6.8× | 186k | 955 | 86 | 98 |
| 42 | Apr 29, '23 | llamao this is too based the person who stole 20m from sandwitch bots by unbundling sandwiches reported another bug that would allow the same attack again, in exchange of being cal | 6.6× | 181k | 1k | 153 | 88 |
| 43 | Oct 5, '25 | Thread going over all the complaints that ppl had about the aster delisting: 1. Why not just report data as is, your job is just to report it? Our users trust our data and make inv | 6.6× | 180k | 1.1k | 85 | 81 |
| 44 | Apr 30, '25 | The new DefiLlama subs take the money that you deposit (and can withdraw anytime) and earn yield on aave with it So if you're paying a subscription of 5$/mo and deposit 600$, your | 6.4× | 176k | 922 | 74 | 196 |
| 45 | Feb 28, '23 | We've released LlamaZip, a UniswapV3 router specially optimized for Optimism, achieving huge gas reductions vs every other aggregator (in screenshot, 7.8x cheaper than 1inch). To u | 6.3× | 172k | 754 | 147 | 95 |
| 46 | Sep 25, '23 | they made a deepfake of vitalik shilling a shitcoin llamaooo | 5.9× | 160k | 831 | 49 | 31 |
| 47 | Mar 1, '25 | they found a vulnerability that allowed pushing fraudulent code to all cursor users via the auto-update if exploited this would have meant hacking all coinbase engineers, along wit | 5.8× | 159k | 842 | 79 | 194 |
| 48 | Feb 15, '25 | This guy made his whole campaign about stopping corruption and people abusing the government to drain resources Then, once in power, he uses his political position to launch a toke | 5.7× | 156k | 3k | 343 | 86 |
| 49 | Dec 1, '24 | 1.5 years ago perps was dominated by dydx (55-80% marketshare) now their marketshare is at 5% | 5.6× | 153k | 1.1k | 46 | 80 |
| 50 | Nov 7, '25 | We've had a whole team working on this for one year, this is our biggest launch yet by a long mile I previously tested AI products, found them underwhelming and never tried them ag | 5.3× | 145k | 1.3k | 90 | 287 |
| 51 | Feb 23, '23 | llamao so coinbase told all data providers but us, this is like when they create a new group chat but don't add you | 5.2× | 142k | 784 | 35 | 23 |
| 52 | Nov 10, '23 | llamaoooo @zachxbt just sent this onchain message to the hacker that burned almost all the money they hacked | 4.9× | 135k | 1.1k | 98 | 48 |
| 53 | Feb 20, '24 | i dont get why so many people are focused on ethena's high yield (its a basis trade) instead of the fact that there's been 2 projects that tried this before and both gave up becaus | 4.7× | 129k | 869 | 63 | 112 |
| 54 | Nov 1, '25 | if FTX returned the tokens that it owed to users in-kind (so if a user had 1 BTC in ftx he'd get 1 BTC back), the total returned would be ~23bn at today's prices so the repayment f | 4.6× | 127k | 1k | 78 | 56 |
| 55 | May 17, '25 | in the last 2 months at defillama we've had lots of tradfi institutions contact us about defi data, way more than what we saw before feels like tradfi interest in defi is significa | 4.6× | 127k | 965 | 92 | 77 |
| 56 | Dec 12, '24 | If you swapped on odos inside llamaswap you're getting an airdrop from them swaps on llamaswap are treated the exact same way as swaps on their UI because we structured our product | 4.5× | 124k | 887 | 63 | 105 |
| 57 | Feb 21, '24 | over a year ago we built a tool that automatically scans all protocols and finds yield opportunities similar to ethena's by looking for basis trades it also works with all tokens, | 4.4× | 121k | 933 | 91 | 550 |
| 58 | Aug 18, '25 | now that teams are okay with distributing revenue to tokenholders, why hasn't there been any attempt to bring real businesses onchain? eg pool money, buy a business such as a hotel | 4.3× | 119k | 881 | 30 | 89 |
| 59 | Feb 27, '25 | damn they found an exploit in gitlab where it was possible to take over anyone's account and push code as them if this had targeted any crypto libs it could have been a disaster | 4.3× | 118k | 795 | 78 | 117 |
| 60 | Jun 9, '24 | a few years ago a company raised 8 figs from vcs to compete with us and were tweeting about eating llamas checked today and their product looks discontinued oh how the turn tables | 4.3× | 118k | 809 | 28 | 24 |
| 61 | Mar 6, '25 | I see a lot of chatter about putting stocks on chain This seems like smth that would get usage, however every time it's been tried (mirror, synthetix...) it has gotten minimal trac | 4.2× | 116k | 788 | 17 | 70 |
| 62 | Nov 26, '22 | Now you can check which RPCs track your IP on chainlist! We went through all the RPCs and checked their privacy policies manually, then we simplified those into simple badges: - Gr | 4.2× | 0 | 1.9k | 591 | 621 |
| 63 | Feb 16, '25 | Patrick called the last SOL local top perfectly 2 weeks ago using defillama onchain data He found that every time app revenue (purple) spiked it was a local top for SOL price (yell | 4.0× | 110k | 935 | 81 | 429 |
| 64 | Apr 2, '25 | Something underappreciated about Tether is that if USDT ever goes temporarily off-peg (like what happened with USDC), they have 7.8bn in BTC to spend instantly to maintain the peg | 3.9× | 107k | 796 | 41 | 63 |
| 65 | Apr 10, '24 | I'll never understand why in an industry so rife with actual scams regulators like to go against the legit projects | 3.9× | 106k | 805 | 75 | 18 |
| 66 | Nov 8, '24 | trump won and defillama user numbers went +40% attention is shifting back towards defi | 3.5× | 96k | 855 | 68 | 29 |
| 67 | Jul 11, '24 | they shut down the 3rd biggest stablecoin at 23bn and later said "nvm its good" llamaooo | 3.5× | 95k | 1.3k | 122 | 44 |
| 68 | Jan 17, '22 | looking at my nfts | 3.3× | 0 | 2.8k | 262 | 72 |
| 69 | Apr 9, '25 | Since bybit borrowed ETH after the hack, it has been shorting ETH since the hack This trade alone has earned them 700M so far | 3.3× | 90k | 1.1k | 58 | 50 |
| 70 | Dec 11, '22 | Metamask allows RPCs/infura to link all your addresses together So I forked it and removed these privacy leaks: - No more reqs sending all addresses in MM - No longer leaks all add | 3.2× | 0 | 1.5k | 365 | 535 |
| 71 | Jun 11, '25 | privy was created in december 2021 but only had their big break with the friendtech integration in august 2023, which before launch nobody expected to be that huge and now they got | 3.2× | 87k | 1.1k | 57 | 106 |
| 72 | Feb 16, '25 | we recently discovered a protocol washtrading to pump their metrics and when i confronted them they told me they weren't washing, they just had a bot stress testing their system by | 3.2× | 87k | 1.3k | 57 | 52 |
| 73 | May 22, '24 | btw given the recent bybit insolvency rumors, reminder that we track all the assets deposited on their exchange in the last 24h they've had a -50m outflow but they have 9.4bn asset | 3.1× | 84k | 670 | 312 | 29 |
| 74 | Oct 16, '23 | reminder that llamaswap charges 0 fees (just positive slippage for some aggregators) we're even cheaper than the interfaces of some aggregators we provide, since those interfaces c | 3.0× | 83k | 849 | 94 | 39 |
| 75 | Aug 15, '25 | For the 2 biggest narratives this cycle, hyperliquid and pumpfun, defillama was the first platform to track them by a long shot Now everyone tracks them, but what mattered was know | 3.0× | 83k | 1k | 42 | 94 |
| 76 | Dec 17, '21 | it's really just that easy | 3.0× | 0 | 2.6k | 213 | 78 |
| 77 | Jun 3, '25 | hated by the solana founder 🤝 hated by ethereum podcasters this is how you know the data source is neutral | 2.6× | 71k | 1.5k | 48 | 27 |
| 78 | Feb 5, '22 | Putting a bug bounty on my identity. If anyone DMs me with my real identity along with an explanation of how you found it I'll send you 1 ETH | 2.5× | 0 | 2k | 101 | 109 |
| 79 | Mar 12, '25 | @deltaxbt i think some of these really bad swaps could be money laundering if you have NK illicit funds you could construct a very mev-able tx, then privately send it to a mev bot | 2.4× | 67k | 1k | 62 | 278 |
| 80 | Apr 24, '25 | > be a llama > spend years working on ensuring all metrics on defillama follow the same methodology and can be trusted > vc today: "its all self reported metrics so cant b | 2.4× | 66k | 971 | 22 | 37 |
| 81 | Mar 12, '24 | Since ppl arent aware, some time ago I built llamasearch, which expands google search with the most common crypto usecases: - Go to trusted websites (eg maker) and avoid scams - Ch | 2.3× | 63k | 828 | 99 | 292 |
| 82 | Dec 30, '24 | defi founders annualizing metrics based on a single day is like when traders make 2k in a day and think its like they're earning a salary of 730k/yr | 2.3× | 62k | 843 | 55 | 23 |
| 83 | Apr 15, '25 | I've noticed that scammers have started buying old abandoned defi domains to replace the frontend with drainers so if you're going to some dead defi project to withdraw some money | 2.3× | 62k | 791 | 132 | 56 |
| 84 | Nov 4, '25 | Given what happened with stream, should we ask all protocols that have funds in CEXs to share with us a view-only api key to verify or delist them? Currently all protocols with fun | 2.2× | 60k | 942 | 36 | 35 |
| 85 | Feb 18, '25 | one benefit of not doing angel investments is that i'm all in on defillama if it succeeds - valhalla if it fails - to the streets i'm maximally locked in, no backup plan or angel i | 2.1× | 58k | 1.1k | 19 | 18 |
| 86 | Jul 16, '25 | every week we get chains and projects offering to pay us large sums in order to list metrics they excel at we've never taken a deal like that and never will, fundamentally i think | 2.1× | 57k | 825 | 34 | 10 |
| 87 | Oct 7, '25 | was working on improving our methodology for volumes today and learned that some cexs post orders that can't be executed so that their orderbook looks deeper and it seems to have s | 1.9× | 53k | 905 | 55 | 54 |
| 88 | Jul 30, '25 | was checking the new executive order report from the white house the white house using defillama data to showcase stablecoin growth and argue for crypto adoption feels good man | 1.6× | 44k | 1.4k | 70 | 35 |
| 89 | Nov 12, '21 | Something usually overlooked for stablecoins like UST, alUSD, MIM or FRAX is that what matters the most for their success is people wanting to hold the stable. If nobody is willing | 1.6× | 0 | 806 | 171 | 236 |
| 90 | Dec 12, '21 | ohm fork dev doxxes itself with a photo to prove that it's not a rug, then rugs and it turns out that picture was AI generated kek | 1.6× | 0 | 1.3k | 93 | 44 |
| 91 | Oct 4, '22 | soft launching our latest dasboard: funding rounds in crypto lmk what you think and if you miss anything, all new raises are getting added and we're working on getting old ones too | 1.5× | 0 | 879 | 137 | 171 |
| 92 | Nov 8, '22 | cz owns: - biggest CEX - 2nd biggest chain by TVL - 3rd crypto asset by mcap - 3rd biggest stablecoin becoming a crypto kingmaker | 1.5× | 0 | 1.2k | 123 | 37 |
| 93 | Dec 7, '21 | Met many people that got rich in 2017 and then proceeded to retire and do nothing with their lives. Would heavily advise against doing that, much better to view wealth as giving yo | 1.5× | 0 | 1.3k | 101 | 47 |
| 94 | Jul 18, '21 | Would anyone be interested in a guide on how to stay anon (voice anonymizers, accounts, common pitfalls...)? Thinking of writing one since I've learned a lot through trial and erro | 1.5× | 0 | 915 | 55 | 248 |
| 95 | Dec 13, '22 | So binance really handled 7bn in net outflows in less than 48h Pretty good stress test | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 89 | 15 |
| 96 | Nov 8, '22 | View post on X | 1.2× | 0 | 930 | 132 | 38 |
| 97 | Aug 8, '25 | did another round of hiring and im continuing the experiment of replying to everyone who applied with a long explanation of why we didnt go with them i hated it when i applied to j | 1.2× | 33k | 898 | 4 | 27 |
| 98 | May 24, '22 | btw now that i've become a mini-zach, my take is that self-regulation is broken, since: - spent 50-100 hours researching - people now hate me - massive risk if i was wrong - painte | 1.2× | 0 | 853 | 62 | 61 |
| 99 | Mar 27, '22 | new idea: use zk-proofs to allow NFT owners to claim merch by proving that they own an NFT of a collection without having to doxx their wallet | 1.1× | 0 | 878 | 70 | 53 |
| 100 | Jan 1, '22 | lmao checked vitalik's reddit account and he's out there commenting on memes of himself | 0.8× | 0 | 760 | 36 | 9 |
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