Moonwell Lending

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

A further $5.9M sits in the protocol's native staking modules — these deposits are typically locked, vote-bonded, or earning a share of fees, and they reduce the freely circulating float that can hit the market.

Market cap and supply figures are sourced from DeFiLlama's price feed (which reconciles CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, and on-chain DEX prices). Treasury and staking values reflect on-chain balances controlled by the protocol at last sync.

Moonwell Lending is published as a versioned release inside the Moonwell protocol family. Releases inside the same family typically share governance, brand, and large parts of the audit history, but each version can run materially different contract logic — a release labelled v2 or v3 is not just a UI refresh. Newer versions inside a family typically launch with their own audit cycle and parameter set, so do not assume the previous release's safety record carries over without checking the linked audit reports.

Fork lineage and parent-protocol relationships are tracked by DeFiLlama for security and audit-history attribution; a fork inherits the upstream design but not necessarily the upstream audits or governance.

Moonwell Lending is a versioned release inside a larger protocol family. View the parent for combined TVL and all sibling versions.

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

1. Jun 23, 2022
   Listed on DeFiLlama
2. Aug 1, 2022
   Nomad Bridge Exploit

Moonwell Lending 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 3 chains, including Base, Optimism, Moonbeam. The codebase has been independently audited (2 reports on file). DeFiLlama tracks 1 historical event for this protocol since 2022.

Moonwell Lending operates on 3 networks (Base, Optimism, Moonbeam), keeping its surface area narrower than chain-agnostic peers. TVL is comparatively balanced across networks: even the largest deployment (Base) holds only 37% of the protocol's value. Price feeds come from a single oracle provider (Chainlink); an outage or manipulation of that feed would propagate into every market the protocol prices. Two audit reports are published on DeFiLlama, which is in line with typical practice for protocols at this scale.

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

Moonwell Lending 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 Moonwell Lending'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%