{"id":646017,"date":"2026-08-20T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=840811"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:30:12","slug":"defi-roars-back-as-10b-dex-boom-sends-tvl-flying-above-83b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/defi-roars-back-as-10b-dex-boom-sends-tvl-flying-above-83b\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi Roars Back as $10B DEX Boom Sends TVL Flying Above $83B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/defi-roars-back-as-10b-dex-boom-sends-tvl-flying-above-83b-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Defillama DEX volume stats bar chart.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets roared back to life Thursday as total value locked (TVL) jumped 9.15% in 24 hours, decentralized exchange (DEX) volume punched through $10 billion, and Hyperliquid swallowed a massive chunk of derivatives trading. Defillama TVL data at about 10:30 a.m. EDT on Aug. 20 showed $83.216 billion parked across DeFi protocols, sharply [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets roared back to life Thursday as total value locked (TVL) jumped 9.15% in 24 hours, decentralized exchange (DEX) volume punched through $10 billion, and Hyperliquid swallowed a massive chunk of derivatives trading. Defillama TVL data at about 10:30 a.m. EDT on Aug. 20 showed $83.216 billion parked across DeFi protocols, sharply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-646017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}