What's built on Base
Protocols, grouped the way a fintech thinks: exchange, credit, infrastructure. Bars are live TVL from DefiLlama, refreshed daily.
= $10M = $100M contracts this Lab reads on BaseRounded to the nearest cell; under half a cell is a line.
Value locked on Base$6.21BLiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
Stablecoin dollars on Base$5.25BLiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
Exchange
Where one asset becomes another.
7 protocols · $883M on Base
LiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
Credit
Where dollars are lent and borrowed.
11 protocols · $5.22B on Base
LiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
Infrastructure
Bridges and staking the rest builds on.
3 protocols · $212M on Base
LiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
Other
Curators, allocators and the rest. Some of this overlaps with Credit: a curator’s figure is often deposits that sit in the lending markets above.
19 protocols · $2.97B on Base
LiveDefiLlama · as of 2026-10-12
TVL is a rough size, not a quality score. Figures are DefiLlama's as of the date shown; nothing here is a recommendation.