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Glossary/Total Value Locked (TVL)

Total Value Locked (TVL)

The total value of assets deposited in a DeFi protocol's smart contracts — a common metric for comparing protocol adoption.

TVL sums the tokens deposited in lending pools, AMMs, and staking contracts. It is a rough proxy for trust and usage, though it can be inflated by token price moves or double counting.

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