Total Value Locked: The Importance of This Metric for Web3 and TON 🖥 Total Value Locked (TVL) represents the amount of funds locked in a DeFi protocol or network.
In 2024, TON Foundation initiatives like The Open League helped boost the TON ecosystem’s TVL 20-fold — from $14M
to $290M (and up to $775M at its peak).
Why is this metric so important for the network? Because TVL directly affects:
1⃣ User experience. High TVL reduces slippage during swaps on DEXes, impacts borrowing rates in lending protocols, and maximizes rewards through products like Tonstakers Earn in liquid staking.
2⃣ Trust in the ecosystem. Large users will deposit significant amounts into products only if they are confident in their quality and security — meaning products with already high TVL can be trusted naturally.
3⃣Network perception. While the number of users, transaction count, and even trading volumes can be artificially inflated, TVL is a metric that cannot be easily manipulated.
👩 Additionally, staking TVL contributes to the overall security of blockchains — a larger amount of staked funds reduces the risk of attacks on the network’s consensus.
This year, Tonstakers has made tremendous progress in increasing TVL. The amount of staked TON has grown from $33M
to $264M, while tsTON liquidity in DeFi has reached
$55M. In the coming year, we will continue our efforts to contribute even more to the ecosystem’s growth and, of course, provide maximum rewards for our stakers 😎
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