Decentralized finance projects (DeFi) refer to financial projects built on blockchain technology to provide peer-to-peer services such as lending, trading and asset management. LunarCrush, a platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has unveiled its list of Top 10 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects based on social activity.
TOP #DEFI PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$SOL $XRP $LINK $ZEC $HBAR $ASTER $VVS $MA $XTZ $ICP pic.twitter.com/9nSvJjuiQK
– PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analysis (@pnxgrp) February 12, 2026
Essentially, social activity involves engaged messages and interactions. These projects are named as Solana ($SOL), $XRP ($XRP), Chain link ($LINK), Zcash ($ZEC), Hedera ($HBAR), Aster($ASTER), $VVS Finance ($VVS), Monad ($MA), Tezos ($XTZ), and internet computer ($ICP). In the given list is Solana ($SOL) dominates with 83.2K engaged posts and 21.2 million interactions. Phoenix Group announced this news via its official X account.
$XRP Exceeds $LINK with a huge interaction gap of 28.7 million
$XRP ($XRP) and Chainlink ($LINK) are in third and fourth positions, with 42.2K, 11.0K in Engaged Posts and 31.8M, 3.1M respectively. Both DeFi projects achieved a difference of 31.2K in engaged posts and also a difference of 28.7M in interactions. Next up is Zcash ($ZEC) with 1.2 million interactions and successfully received 9.9 million engaged messages.
Furthermore Hedera ($HBAR) positioned itself at the 5th position and achieved 9.5K engaged posts with an interaction of 418.6K. At the same time, two DeFi projects are very close to each other in terms of messages involved, with only a 0.1K difference. These two DeFi projects are Aster ($ASTER) And $VVS Finance ($VVS), with engaged messages of 7.7K, 7.6K along with the interactions of 1.5M and 104.3K.
Monad shows strength as Tezos and $ICP Compete at the bottom
Monad ($MA) is also among the top 10 DeFi projects as of February 12, 2026. Monad ($MA) received 6.6K engaged messages and reached 8th position with 1.1 million interactions. Tezos ($XTZ) is the DeFi project that reached the second to last position with 221.8K interactions and has 3.9K engaged posts in the market. These two DeFi projects have a difference of 2.7K in engaged messages, but this difference got hyped in interactions, about 878.2K.
Last but not least, internet computer ($ICP) is the DeFi project that achieved the last position in the ranking of the daily top 10 projects. Internet computer ($ICP) efficiently managed to achieve 3.6K engaged posts and 296.3K interactions. This project received a 0.3K difference from its previous project ($XTZ).