50 Best Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent decentralized finance (defi) companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 752 companies tracked on Fsome.

752
Total Companies
$13.6B
Total Funding
$18.1M
Avg Funding
Singapore
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Rain
Rain is a fintech company that builds stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure,…
New York $338.5M Series C 2026-01-09
2
MoonPay
MoonPay is a fintech company providing payment infrastructure for converting fia…
Dover 251 - 500 $1.0B Debt Financing 2025-03-20
3
Ondo Finance
Ondo Finance develops a cryptocurrency trading platform that makes decentralized…
New York 11 - 50 $34.0M Initial Coin Offering 2024-01-17
4
Chainlink
Chainlink is a web3 services platform that connects people, businesses, and data…
Grand Cayman 501 - 1K $32.1M Series A 2022-10-12
5
Phantom
Phantom is a crypto wallet that facilitates the buying, trading, and storing of …
San Francisco 101 - 250 $268.0M Series C 2025-01-16
6
ConsenSys
ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging fro…
Brooklyn 501 - 1K $725.0M Series Unknown 2025-12-15
7
Yuga Labs
Yuga Labs is a blockchain technology company that develops NFTs and digital coll…
Coral Gables 101 - 250 $450.0M Seed 2022-03-22
8
Krown Network
Krown Network is a blockchain technology company offering a full ecosystem of de…
Monroe 11 - 50 $2.3M Initial Coin Offering 2025-09-29
9
IoTeX
IoTeX is a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and rea…
Houston 51 - 100 $54.5M Series Unknown 2024-04-02
10
M0
M0 provides a universal platform for companies to build, issue, and manage their…
Zug 11 - 50 $97.5M Series B 2025-08-28
11
DeFi Development Corporation
DeFi Development Corp. develops blockchain and DeFi solutions, focusing on Solan…
Boca Raton 11 - 50 $1.3B Post Ipo Equity 2025-08-25
12
Zerion
Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows technical and non-technical users …
San Francisco 11 - 50 $33.0M Series B 2022-10-11
13
Cork Protocol
Cork offers collateralized swaps against any pegged asset.
New York 1 - 10 $5.5M Seed 2026-01-21
14
Aave
Aave is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lend…
London 101 - 250 $49.0M Secondary Market 2023-08-04
15
Ava Labs
AVA is a blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, s…
New York 101 - 250 $290.0M Corporate Round 2026-03-19
16
Imagen Network
Imagen Network is a decentralized social networking plat formpowered by AI.
$32.0M Corporate Round 2025-06-12
17
Lightning Labs
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient finan…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $82.5M Series B 2022-04-05
18
Ethena
Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol developed on Ethereum that provides a cryp…
Lisbon 11 - 50 $206.8M Series Unknown 2025-10-01
19
Infinex
The Infinex platform provides access to onchain protocols, services and applicat…
51 - 100 $500K Pre Seed 2025-02-04
20
PancakeSwap
PancakeSwap is the largest decentralized app (dApp) that allows users to trade a…
Unoshima 101 - 250 $4.0M Initial Coin Offering 2022-06-06
21
Solayer
Solayer is the hardware accelerated SVM L1 blockchain.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $22.5M Undisclosed 2025-01-14
22
Immunefi
Immunefi is a bug bounty and security services platform that protects crypto pro…
Singapore 51 - 100 $29.5M Series A 2022-09-22
23
OpenSea
OpenSea is an NFT marketplace that enables users to discover, collect, and sell …
New York 251 - 500 $427.2M Series C 2022-01-05
24
Optimum
Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tail…
11 - 50 $11.0M Seed 2025-04-15
25
YO Labs
YO Labs automates crypto yield generation by rebalancing capital across DeFi pro…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $10.0M Series A 2025-12-14
26
KAIO
KAIO enables regulated RWAs to thrive in permissionless finance while ensuring s…
1 - 10 $11.0M Seed 2025-07-30
27
Sahara AI
Sahara AI is a decentralized AI network that enables freely and securely deploy …
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $43.0M Series A 2024-08-14
28
Ellipsis Labs
Ellipsis Labs is a financial technology firm that builds a range of products in …
New York 1 - 10 $44.3M Series Unknown 2024-10-31
29
ZenLedger
ZenLedger analyzes and simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax…
Bellevue 11 - 50 $25.9M Series B 2022-05-25
30
EstateXchange
EstateXchange is a safe online platform that links essential organizations and e…
Melbourne 1 - 10 $8.4M Seed 2026-01-12
31
0x
0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.
San Francisco 101 - 250 $109.0M Series B 2022-04-26
32
Temple Digital Group
Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading d…
New York 1 - 10 $5.0M Seed 2025-10-16
33
Metya
Metya is a powered by AI Web3 Technologies dating platform that seeks to transfo…
Singapore 11 - 50 $56.0M Series Unknown 2025-12-15
34
Saturn
Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custod…
$2.1M Angel 2026-01-15
35
OpenEden
OpenEden is a financial system that helps bring real-world assets on-chain to un…
Singapore 11 - 50 $1.5M Seed 2025-12-01
36
Kuru
Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
$13.6M Series A 2025-07-07
37
Usual
The new playbook for financial freedom.
Paris 11 - 50 $16.7M Series A 2024-12-23
38
Topl
Topl is an impact technology economy that enables digital and sustainable transf…
Houston 11 - 50 $21.7M Series Unknown 2024-04-23
39
ZOTH
Bridging Liquidity Across TradFi and Onchain Fi - One RWA at a Time
Singapore 11 - 50 $24.3M Series Unknown 2026-02-09
40
Variational
Variational is a protocol for peer-to-peer trading, clearing, and settlement of …
George Town 1 - 10 $11.8M Undisclosed 2025-06-04
41
Falcon Finance
Falcon Finance is a DeFi platform that is designed for asset-backed token issuan…
Wilmington 11 - 50 $20.0M Series Unknown 2025-10-09
42
Sign
Sign is a platform that helps users and AI agents receive crypto tokens more tra…
Singapore 11 - 50 $41.5M Series Unknown 2025-10-21
43
375ai
375ai operates as a decentralized edge data intelligence network.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $10.0M Series Unknown 2025-10-08
44
Nirvana
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic D…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $30.0M Series Unknown 2022-04-05
45
Sonic Labs
Sonic is an EVM layer-1 blockchain that helps developers build decentralized app…
George Town 11 - 50 $10.0M Series Unknown 2025-05-08
46
1inch
1inch is a suite of decentralized trading and routing products for different typ…
Old Road Town 101 - 250 $189.8M Series B 2021-12-01
47
Space
Space is a leveraged prediction market platform built on Solana, designed to rew…
$3.0M Seed 2025-12-16
48
Solix
Solix is a decentralized finance company that offers an MCP powered DePIN to bui…
New York 11 - 50 $29.5M Seed 2025-04-08
49
Yield.xyz
Yield.xyz is the all-in-one Web3 yield API. Staking, DeFi, stablecoins: full dat…
New York 11 - 50 $5.0M Seed 2025-06-25
50
TITAN
Titan is the ultimate DEX aggregator offering the best swap prices by scanning o…
George Town 1 - 10 $10.5M Seed 2025-09-18