Introducing Real-Time Data Streams — Give your infrastructure a direct streaming line to any event happening on Hyperliquid. Read more →

Introducing Real-Time Data Streams — Give your infrastructure a direct streaming line to any event happening on Hyperliquid. Read more →

TVL (Total Value Locked)

TVL measures the total dollar value of assets deposited in a protocol. DeFi dashboards (DeFiLlama in particular) use it as the headline metric for adoption. TVL has real limitations as a quality signal: it can be inflated by recursive lending, by mercenary capital chasing emissions, or by a single large depositor, and it tells you nothing about volume or revenue.

See also: Protocol, DeFi (Decentralized Finance), DEX (Decentralized Exchange).

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