Just crossed with this Leon tweet talking about Ethereum DeFi status and it looks so good.
2025 is coming to an end and now everyone is looking into how things have been going during the year and one thing is getting harder and harder to argue against, Ethereum is still the king of DeFi and data proves it.
Currently, Ethereum mainnet holds about 64% of all DeFi TVL. That means almost two thirds of the money locked in DeFi is still on Ethereum and the trend is important here. This share grew again during 2024-2025. Back in 2022, Ethereum's dominance dropped to around 45% and a lot of people thought that was the beginning of the end.
Since then, Ethereum has slowly but steadily recovered its position. If you also count Ethereum Layer 2s like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, etc, Ethereum's real share of DeFi goes above 70%. Pretty clear that most DeFi activity still lives inside the Ethereum ecosystem even if it is not always on mainnet.
This tell us a few things, money is not leaving Ethereum, big capital still prefers Ethereum because it is secure, liquid and prove. Furthermore, more institutions keep choosing Ethereum again and again and this is serious because they hate losing money. Also Layer 2s are not replacing Ethereum, they are strengthening it by making it cheaper and more scalable.
In other words Ethereum keeps evolving and its the ecosystem everyone its choosing to work with.
Source:
2025 Review: Ethereum Still Dominates DeFi With ~64% TVL – Over 70% With L2s
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A time will come where other chains will have no other option than to pivot to Eth ecosystem. !tip 1