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Cross-chain Flow

Money moves before price does. When it is deposited into a chain's DeFi, that chain's TVL. The dollars locked in it: goes up; when it is withdrawn, TVL falls. Below: how much money sits in DeFi in total, then the chains that gained it this week and the chains that lost it.

The idea. Money does not disappear between chains, it moves. The chain it moves into is where the next liquid names usually appear — an answer to where to look, not a trigger to buy.

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DeFi money flow by period

How much the total above changed over each period, in dollars.

green money arrivedred money leftpercent beside each tile is the same change in %

▲ Money coming in

Chains whose TVL grew over the last 7 days.

green = money came inTVL parked on that chain now7d $ dollars in over the week

A row reads → Base · $4.6B · +$5M · +0.1%: Base holds $4.6B in DeFi and gained $5M this week. Weeks of money arriving while the token lags is a chain worth watching.

▼ Money leaving

Chains whose TVL fell over the last 7 days.

red = money leftTVL parked on that chain now7d $ dollars out over the week

A row reads → Tron · $4.8B · −$43M · −0.9%: Tron still holds $4.8B but $43M left this week. Treat a bounce here with more caution.

These chains moved, but the move cannot be called money arriving. A board that quietly shrank reads as a calm market, so the desk prints what it refused and on which number.

How to read it

TVL (total value locked) is the dollar value sitting in a chain's DeFi — the money people put in and left there. Rising means more went in than came out; falling means the opposite. A chain that gains money for weeks while its token lags is worth a look; a chain losing money into a price bounce is a reason for caution. Read it as money flow, not a price target: TVL can rise on rewards that are later switched off. Pair it with price and the screener.

Failure point. A TVL rise in percent is not yet money arriving. 3 traps. A chain that grew from almost nothing: big percentages, little money, so a move also has to clear a floor in dollars. TVL is counted in the coins sitting on the chain: the chain's token goes up, the dollars “grow” without a single new dollar, and that row leaves the board. A bridge move: money crossed from one chain to another, nothing new arrived, and the receiving chain looks like the winner.

Triggers, not calls. TVL moves on farming incentives and token prices too, not just organic demand. A big number isn't automatically bullish. Data is live open on-chain TVL, past behaviour ≠ future.