TVL

Technology & Computing abbreviation · Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

TVL stands for Total value locked, a cryptocurrency & blockchain abbreviation.

The total market value of crypto assets deposited in a DeFi protocol or blockchain, such as funds in lending pools, liquidity pools and staking contracts, used as a rough measure of size and adoption.

Example: The lending protocol's TVL doubled to $2 billion after it launched on the new chain.

Usage notes

TVL rises and falls with token prices, not only with deposits, and the same assets can be counted more than once when protocols build on each other. Aggregators such as DefiLlama track it across chains. Incentive programs can inflate it temporarily.

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