Educational snapshot
DEX pulse
Protocol literacy for decentralized venues. Top-five TVL and volume tables from DefiLlama — education, not a trading terminal.
As of 18 Oct 2026, 04:26 SAST. Source: DefiLlama (DEX overview · protocols / TVL). Refreshed about hourly. A quiet upstream leaves that section empty.
Market strip
Aggregate volume from DefiLlama’s DEX overview — the published total24h and total7d fields. Not a sum of the five rows below, and not a market call.
Overview 24h volume
$5.98B
USD, DefiLlama overview total24h.
Overview 7d volume
$57.74B
USD, included only when total7d is present.
Top 5 by TVL
Protocols with category Dexs, sorted by reported TVL. Chains show up to three names from DefiLlama’s list.
| # | Protocol | TVL | 1d change | Chains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uniswap V3 | $1.58B | -0.26% | EthereumBaseArbitrum+41 |
| 2 | PancakeSwap AMM | $1.56B | -0.24% | BinanceEthereumAptos+8 |
| 3 | Uniswap V4 | $1.37B | — | EthereumBinanceRobinhood Chain+16 |
| 4 | Curve DEX | $1.2B | -1.19% | EthereumFraxtalMonad+29 |
| 5 | Raydium AMM | $1.16B | -0.38% | Solana |
Top 5 by 24h volume
Same overview feed, category Dexs only, sorted by total24h.
| # | Protocol | 24h volume | 1d change | Chains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uniswap V4 | $752.47M | -33.32% | EthereumOP MainnetBase+17 |
| 2 | PancakeSwap AMM V3 | $444.59M | -12.02% | BSCEthereumPolygon zkEVM+8 |
| 3 | Uniswap V3 | $433.85M | -42.77% | EthereumArbitrumOP Mainnet+44 |
| 4 | Aerodrome Slipstream | $350.47M | -36.70% | Base |
| 5 | BisonFi | $283.38M | 0.00% | Solana |
Top 5 by 7d volume
Same Dexs-only set, sorted by total7d. The 1d change column is DefiLlama’s reported daily percent when they send one.
| # | Protocol | 7d volume | 1d change | Chains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uniswap V4 | $7.76B | -33.32% | EthereumOP MainnetBase+17 |
| 2 | Uniswap V3 | $7.33B | -42.77% | EthereumArbitrumOP Mainnet+44 |
| 3 | Aerodrome Slipstream | $3.88B | -36.70% | Base |
| 4 | PancakeSwap AMM V3 | $3.41B | -12.02% | BSCEthereumPolygon zkEVM+8 |
| 5 | PumpSwap | $2.5B | -64.34% | Solana |
How to read this
TVL is not safety
Total value locked estimates assets sitting in a protocol’s contracts. A large figure is not an audit, a withdrawal promise, or a score for the team.
Volume is not quality
24-hour and 7-day volume are reported turnover. A busy window does not mean fair pricing, solvency, or a reason to use a venue.
Aggregates lag
DefiLlama revises history, misses venues, and can double-count related deployments. These are literacy figures, not a live order book.
Category Dexs only
Tables keep protocols tagged exactly “Dexs”. Prediction markets, launchpads, trading apps, and other categories are left out.
The strip is not the sum of five rows
The market strip is DefiLlama’s DEX overview total. It is their published aggregate for that endpoint, not a total we recompute from the tables.
Not advice
Nothing here is a personal recommendation, a price target, or an invitation to buy or sell. Sort order is DefiLlama’s raw metric, not an editorial ranking.