How to make money with DeFi
The AI tools people use for defi, the workflows that turn them into income, and the honest community-reported numbers — we count the $0s.
Crypto & Web3 · DeFi · 26 tools
🛠️ The tools
Polymarket
Decentralized prediction market for real-world events
Almanak
Quant-grade autonomous agents for onchain strategy execution
Bags
No-code token launchpad with custom curves
Banana Gun
Telegram sniper bot for fast onchain trading
Curve Finance
Stablecoin and pegged-asset AMM
Drift Protocol
Solana's decentralized perpetuals exchange
dYdX
Decentralized perpetual futures exchange
EigenLayer
Restaking protocol for shared security
Giza
Agent stack for autonomous DeFi (DeFAI)
GMX
Decentralized perpetuals and spot exchange
Lido
Largest liquid staking protocol
Maestro
Telegram sniping and trading bot for memecoins
Morpho
Efficient peer-to-peer lending protocol
Pendle
Yield trading and tokenized future yield
Photon
Fast web-based Solana trading terminal
Raydium
Leading Solana AMM and liquidity provider
Sky
Decentralized stablecoin and savings protocol
Aave
Leading decentralized lending and borrowing protocol for crypto assets.
Compound
Decentralized protocol for algorithmic, autonomous crypto lending and borrowing.
deBridge
Cross-chain interoperability and intent-based liquidity transfer protocol.
Hyperliquid
High-performance on-chain perpetuals exchange
Jupiter
Solana's leading DEX aggregator routing swaps for the best price across liquidity sources.
LI.FI
Cross-chain liquidity and bridge aggregator that routes swaps across many chains.
Meteora
Solana liquidity protocol powering dynamic liquidity pools.
Step Finance
Solana portfolio dashboard and management platform.
Uniswap
The leading decentralized exchange protocol
Is defi worth it?
The honest answer is in the numbers: the workflows above show how many people reported running them and what the median earner actually made — not a cherry-picked screenshot. Most people earn less than the headline, and a real share earn nothing. Pick a workflow, check its reported distribution, and steal the stack.
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