- Note leads Defi with 56.3% weekly TVL rise and reaches $ 11.3 million despite the small market capitalization.
- Large CAP protocols such as LDO and Ethfi retain dominance with multi-billion TVL-interests.
- Projects of smaller caps post faster growth and signal the rising capital in emerging Defi platforms.
The Decentralized Finance (Defi) market recorded a total value locked (TVL) growth in the week ending on 10 August 2025, with various protocols that post the percentage of the percentage of double digits, according to Defillama data. Winsts were spread over different categories, from liquidity pools to the use of platforms, indicating increased closed capital in both large CAP and smaller CAP projects.
Note Token from Phoenix Group registered the largest weekly percentage increase in top performers. TVL in memorandum rose by 56.3% for seven days and reached $ 11.3 million. Despite the increase in the locked value, market capitalization remains relatively smaller at $ 1.9 million.
Top projects per weekly #TVL growth $ Note $ lon $ zrc $ blur $ zeus $ $ $ $ sky $ hord $ friend $ cfg $ ldo $ sd $ pendle $ fis order pic.twitter.com/lomyrqwxhz
– Phoenix – Crypto News & Analytics (@PNXGRP) 10 August 2025
LON followed a weekly TVL profit from 32.8% to $ 2.8 million, supported by a market capitalization of $ 1.5 million. ZRC achieved an increase of 31.2% and increased its TV to $ 781.1 million and market capitalization to $ 77.5 million. Blur (Blur) corresponded to the percentage of ZRC’s profit and brought his TVL to $ 116.1 million. Zeus raised 27.7% to $ 33.4 million in locked assets, while EHFI added 22.9% to reach a TVL of $ 11.5 billion.
High-Cap Protocols retain the dominance
While smaller projects resulted in higher percentage growth, protocols with large caps continued to lead in total locked value. LDO, one of the largest Defi protocols, grew its TVL by 21.2% to $ 37.5 billion, which maintained its position in the top protocols by size. Ethfi’s $ 11.5 billion TVL placed it with the largest value holders of the week despite the lower percentage profit compared to Note of LON.
Sky, Hord and Friend also achieved significant profits and increased 22.6%, 22.3%and 22.1%respectively. Sky’s TVL reached $ 6.6 billion, Hord’s was $ 8.9 million and the friend climbed to $ 4.3 million. CFG increased by 21.3% to $ 847.1 million in locked assets.
Wider growth over several sectors
Extra percentage of double -digit growth was registered in SD, Pendle, FIS and Order. SD’s TVL rose by 21.2%, while Pendle won 20.5%. FIS has 20.3% advanced and the order rose by 20.2% to $ 36.1 million. The market capitalizations in this segment varied, with order to $ 36.1 million and CFG at $ 1.7 billion.
The data show growth over multiple categories within Defi, including decentralized exchanges, liquidity protocols and deployment services. Large -scale protocols such as LDO and Ethfi continued to contain a majority share of the total locked value. Nevertheless, smaller CAP projects such as Note, LON and Hord register faster percentage growth rates, indicating an influx of capital into newer or expanding platforms.
