Vault

Lido launches institutional-grade staking vaults during 2025, targeting large capital providers with customized Ethereum staking and restaking solutions.

Berachain launches mainnet on February 6, 2025, introducing Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism rewarding vault liquidity providers through protocol-level incentives.

Sonic chain launches mainnet in January 2025 as rebranded Fantom, featuring enhanced DeFi vault incentive programs and infrastructure improvements.

Fluid Finance releases unified vault protocol combining lending and DEX liquidity, attempting to solve capital fragmentation by allowing single deposits to service both lending and trading simultaneously.

Maple Finance launches institutional lending vaults 2.0 during late 2024, enabling sophisticated credit strategies and institutional capital deployment.

Jito introduces restaking vault infrastructure on Solana in 2024, enabling validators to earn additional yield from MEV-related services through vault mechanisms.

Ondo Finance dominates real-world asset tokenization vault infrastructure throughout 2024, accumulating billions in vault deposits for bond and credit strategies.

Babylon protocol launches Bitcoin staking mainnet on August 22, 2024, hitting its 1,000 BTC Phase 1 cap within 74 minutes as over 12,000 early stakers lock coins for security providers.

Kamino Finance establishes dominance across Solana lending vaults during 2024, accumulating billions through concentrated liquidity vault mechanisms.

EtherFi emerges as the largest liquid restaking vault protocol in 2024, accumulating billions in ETH deposits through streamlined vault architecture.

Aave governance proposes a major v4 architecture overhaul consolidating liquidity through a unified hub-and-spoke model, targeting launch in mid-2025.

Pendle Finance's total value locked climbs beyond $5 billion in April 2024 as the protocol's yield tokenization vault mechanism attracts sophisticated DeFi traders and institutions.

Blast Layer 2 network launches mainnet on February 29, 2024, integrating native yield generation into vault infrastructure for Ethereum and stablecoin deposits.

Yearn Finance launches v3 vault architecture in February 2024, introducing modular strategy design enabling flexible yield optimization across DeFi protocols.

Morpho Blue launches permissionless lending vault protocol on Ethereum in January 2024, enabling arbitrary collateral-loan combinations with protocol-minimalist architecture.