Aave is a decentralized finance protocol for borrowing and lending, where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Depositors provide liquidity to the market to earn a passive income, while borrowers are able to borrow in an overcollateralized (perpetually) or undercollateralized (one-block liquidity) fashion. AAVE is used as the center of gravity of Aave Protocol governance, allowing users to vote and decide on the outcome of Aave Improvement Proposals (AIPs). Additionally, AAVE can be staked within the protocol's Safety Module to provide security/insurance to the protocol and depositors. Stakers earn staking rewards and fees from the protocol.

StandX is a perpetual DEX that enables users to trade with yield-earning margins. DUSD is StandX's first product - a yield-bearing stablecoin.

World Liberty Financial is a DeFi project supported by the Donald Trump family. Its mission is to "make cryptocurrencies and America great by promoting the mass adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance". World Liberty Financial will first be launched as a market for cryptocurrency lending using Aave infrastructure, and will launch its governance token WLFI and stablecoin USD1. Unlike other governance tokens such as UNI and MKR, WLFI does not provide economic rights.

Usual is a fiat-backed stablecoin protocol that plans to launch USD0, a permissionless and fully compliant stablecoin backed 1:1 by real-world assets (RWAs), and USUAL, a governance token that allows the community to guide the future evolution of the network. Usual addresses current stablecoin market issues by redistributing profits to the community, rewarding token holders with real yields generated by the RWAs.

Native Markets is developing the USDH stablecoin for Hyperliquid.

Yala connects Bitcoin liquidity with a meta yield stablecoin. Designed as both a potent asset and a liquidity enhancer, the stablecoin, yU, operates across various ecosystems, increasing efficiency without the need for bridges or relocating the underlying Bitcoin. Yala empowers Bitcoin holders and ecosystem participants with expanded utility, all while maintaining the security of Bitcoin’s infrastructure.

Olympus aims to create a decentralized, censorship-resistant reserve currency for the emerging Web3 ecosystem. The project centers around its OHM token, which is a non-pegged stablecoin that hopes to eventually be viewed as a crypto-native fiat alternative. It does this through various mechanisms: using its treasury to increase and decrease the supply of OHM, LP bonds, and a DAO-controlled variable.

Resolv is a delta-neutral stablecoin protocol revolves around tokenizing a market-neutral portfolio. The architecture is based on an economically viable and fiat-independent yield source. This allows to distribute competitive returns to liquidity providers of the protocol.

Avalon Labs is a BTCFi protocol aims to increase the use of Bitcoin within its platform by allowing users to unlock the value of their holdings by using them as collateral to obtain USDa. Avalon Labs also offers financial products such as Bitcoin-backed loans, interest-bearing savings accounts, and a credit card.

Ethena is building derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transform into the Global Internet Bond via delta-neutral positions on stETH, to create the first crypto-native, yield bearing stablecoin: USDE.

River is building a chain-abstracted stablecoin system, connecting assets, liquidity, and returns across multiple blockchains. Through its core stablecoin, satUSD, users can achieve returns, leverage, and scale across diverse ecosystems. River's key feature is its pioneering omni-CDP module, allowing users to collateralize assets on chain A and mint satUSD on chain B—all without requiring cross-chain asset bridging.

Sky is a decentralized financial system whose native currencies USDS and SKY are upgraded versions of DAI and MKR. Other products include Sky Savings Rate, Sky Token Rewards and Staking Engine, and SkyLink connects the Ethereum mainnet and Layer 2 network.

USD.ai develops a yield-bearing synthetic flatcoin backed by compute resources, AI hardware, and network nodes. It finances decentralized infrastructure assets like GPUs and cell towers to address liquidity gaps. The platform uses $USDAI token for transactions, offering yield through asset-backed stability.

STBL is a decentralized, non-custodial platform built to redefine stablecoin utility by combining yield, transparency, and real-world asset (RWA) backing. At its core, STBL is a mechanism to mint stablecoins — namely USST and USI — with unique advantages that stand out in the DeFi ecosystem: yield without staking, no lockups, and RWA-powered growth.

CAP is a stablecoin engine to break users free from the cycle of endogenous models. CAP’s stablecoin engine will produce redeemable stablecoins of various denominations, such as USD, BTC, and ETH. Their goal will be to democratize access to what was previously only available to a few sophisticated and already-wealthy actors. This includes the deepest wells of yield, such as arbitrage, MEV, and RWAs.

Global Dollar Network is an open network to accelerate and reward the adoption of stable currency, supported by USDG. Global Dollar (USDG) is a single-currency stablecoin (SCS) pegged to the US dollar, issued by Paxos Digital Singapore Pte. Ltd. (PDS) and is compliant with the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) forthcoming stablecoin framework. Built for payments, settlements and treasury, USDG can be used as an interoperable building block for open-source smart contracts, enabling developers to create new use-cases, products and services with USDG.

Solomon is a stablecoin protocol on Solana, designed to offer a composable, non-rebasing dollar that generates yield for holders. Solomon features two tokens: USDv, the core stablecoin pegged to $1 via arbitrage, and sUSDv, a staked version of USDv that accrues yield, with an exchange rate that increasingly favors sUSDv over time.

Hylo is a decentralized stablecoin system consisting of two symbiotic tokens: hyUSD, stablecoin backed by Solana liquid staking tokens (LSTs); xSOL, a tokenized asset enabling long term leveraged exposure to SOL.

M0 is money middleware for the digital age. Based on a decentralized architecture and best-in-class collateral design, M0 allows institutions to issue cryptodollars. It also allows for M distributions to earners and governance token (ZERO) holders. There are three main types of actors in the protocol - Minters, Validators, and Earners - all of which are permissioned via governance. Protocol variables are also managed by governance and are stored in a Registrar configuration contract.

The Reserve Protocol is a decentralized stablecoin platform that aggregates tokenized assets to create a fully decentralized stable cryptocurrency (RTokens). The ultimate goal of the Reserve Protocol is to provide an alternative to fiat currency. In January 2024, Reserve announced the establishment of two new companies, ABcLabs and Confusion Capital, with the former focusing on the development and promotion of the Reserve Protocol and the latter focusing on the development of the ecosystem.

Stables Labs is a next-generation stablecoin infrastructure provider focused on creating a decentralized and bankless ecosystem for stablecoin issuance. USDX(usdx.money) is a synthetic USD stablecoin built for the crypto ecosystem.

BitVault is a decentralized financial protocol that issues bvUSD stablecoins and sbvUSD collateralized stablecoins backed by Bitcoin derivatives. The platform is permissioned, limited to whitelisted entities for lending and minting, and aims to provide institutional-grade capital efficiency, user-set interest rates, and multi-asset collateral, optimizing stability and liquidity.

Standard Money is an algorithmic stablecoin developer whose product is USDsd, an algorithmic stablecoin built on the BNB Chain.

Lista DAO is a decentralized stablecoin lending protocol powered by LSDfi. Users can undergo staking and liquid staking on Lista, as well as borrow lisUSD against a variety of decentralized collateral. Lista aims to position lisUSD as the number one stablecoin in the crypto space, leveraging on innovative liquid staking solutions.

Powered by Succinct’s SP1 zkVM, MyntUSD (USDm) introduces a fundamentally new paradigm for stablecoins, where balances are composable across protocols without being transferred, where zero-knowledge proofs enforce privacy, and where every interaction is verifiable without requiring trust.

USDD is a decentralized stablecoin issued by TRON DAO Reserve. It maintains a 1:1 peg to the US dollar through over-collateralization with crypto assets like BTC, USDT, USDC, and TRX. The project uses smart contracts for issuance and redemption, enabling transactions and staking.

Avant is a DeFi platform established in June 2024 with the mission to create a more inclusive financial system through a DeFi-powered stable-value token. The platform introduces avUSD, a stable-value token, and savUSD, its staked, yield-bearing counterpart.

Sable Finance is a decentralized borrowing protocol for users to borrow loans against BNB as collateral at zero interest and a minimum collateral ratio of 110%. Loans are disbursed in Sablecoin (USDS), a USD-pegged stablecoin, with a minimum collateral ratio of 110%. Furthermore, the loans are fortified by a Stability Pool that comprises USDS and fellow borrowers who serve as guarantors of last resort, ensuring the utmost protection.

Ebisu Finance is a high-yield stablecoin protocol that allows users to borrow dollar-denominated credit in liquid remortgage tokens (LRT) via decentralized stablecoins.

Aegis is a stablecoin platform backed by Bitcoin. Its YUSD is completely independent of the fiat banking system and is designed to protect savings from fiat hyperinflation. Aegis effectively profits from funding fees by performing funding rate arbitrage through delta-neutral trading in the spot and perpetual contract markets. Aegis will also provide an easy-to-use platform through a partnership with Riverside Hedge to enable people to access DeFi and achieve instant liquidity of funds.