Lava

Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.

DeFiLlama publishes the exact rules used to aggregate on-chain balances into the headline TVL figure shown on this page. The methodology below is the team's own source-of-truth description.

Counts the tokens locked in the contracts to be used as collateral to borrow or to earn yield. Borrowed coins are not counted towards the TVL, so only the coins actually locked in the contracts are counted. There's multiple reasons behind this but one of the main ones is to avoid inflating the TVL through cycled lending.

If a contract or vault isn't in this list, its balance does not contribute to the TVL displayed on Mantapex or DeFiLlama.

Major events flagged by the DeFiLlama community — protocol launches, exploits, governance changes, and incentive programs.

1. Mar 5, 2024
   Listed on DeFiLlama
2. Apr 1, 2024
   Protocol was relaunched

Lava is a Lending protocol that lets users supply assets as collateral, borrow against them, and earn interest from borrowers paying variable or stable rates. It is deployed across 2 chains, including Base, Arbitrum. DeFiLlama tracks 1 historical event for this protocol since 2024.

Lava operates on 2 networks (Base, Arbitrum), keeping its surface area narrower than chain-agnostic peers. Price feeds come from a single oracle provider (Chainlink); an outage or manipulation of that feed would propagate into every market the protocol prices.

Verified external resources for Lava — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.

Lava is one of 7 Lending protocols Mantapex tracks in this category. Direct peers ranked by total value locked include Aave V3, Morpho V1, JustLend, and 3 more. These peer protocols collectively secure $43.4B in deposits, giving you a frame of reference for whether Lava's own TVL is at the top, middle, or tail of the category.

Aave V3

TVL $26.2B · 24h +0.16%

Morpho V1

TVL $7B · 24h +0.57%

JustLend

TVL $3.4B · 24h +1.86%

Maple

TVL $2.4B · 24h -1.17%

SparkLend

TVL $2.2B · 24h +3.62%

Kamino Lend

TVL $2.1B · 24h -0.02%