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Meteora Dominates DeFi in 2025 With $1.25B Fees, Outpacing Uniswap, Jupiter, and Aave

In 2025, the Solana-based protocol Meteora led all decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms by generating $1.25 billion in protocol fees, outpacing major competitors. The figures highlight a growing trend where users prioritize the speed and capital efficiency offered by Solana-based protocols.

Financial Overview
Only three DeFi protocols crossed the $1 billion fee mark in 2025, indicating a concentration of fee generation among market leaders.
Meteora: Generated $1.25 billion in total fees, ranking first overall.
Jupiter: Followed closely with $1.11 billion in fees.
Uniswap: Ranked third, bringing in $1.06 billion in protocol fees.
Aave: A prominent lending protocol, generated $809 million in fees, placing it outside the top three fee generators.
Key Insights
The data from 2025 highlights a significant shift towards Solana-based protocols like Meteora and Jupiter, as users seek faster transaction speeds, lower costs, and increased capital efficiency. This structural adoption, combined with growing institutional involvement, points to a maturing and highly competitive DeFi market.

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The Era Of Dead Money Is Over

For years, the mandate was simple: Buy $BTC , lock it away, and forget it. While safe, this approach turns long-term conviction into a dormant liability. Your core asset, securing nothing and earning nothing, is dead capital.

Lorenzo Protocol is the evolution of holding. This is not a degen farm; it’s an on-chain asset manager designed for serious money.

The breakthrough is structure. When you deposit your major assets, the protocol doesn't trap them. Instead, it separates your position into two liquid instruments: one representing your principal exposure, and one representing the future yield stream.

This segmented yield approach gives holders surgical control. You can keep your core $BTC exposure while trading or leveraging the anticipated yield stream. You are no longer locked in a single vault; you hold clear, tradable instruments that move as you do.

$BANK is the coordination layer tying this system together, allowing holders to shape the future of this structure. This is how patient, long-term capital finally learns to move and work without losing its identity.

Do your own research. This is not financial advice.
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