Compare Curve DEX and Lido on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$1.283B
Curve Finance is an automated market maker optimised for low‑slippage swaps between like‑priced assets such as stablecoins and liquid staking tokens. Its stableswap invariant and meta‑pools keep price impact below 0.05 % even at million‑dollar clip sizes, while veCRV bribing aligns long‑term liquidity incentives. Curve currently handles > $1 billion daily volume across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and ten other chains.
Lido is the largest liquid‑staking protocol, minting stETH and other LSTs that track underlying validator balances 1:1 minus a 10 % reward fee. Its dual‑dao governance splits responsibility between the Lido DAO and the protocol’s Node Operator Registry, reducing centralisation risk. By May 2025 over 9 million ETH—roughly 30 % of staked supply—was custodied under Lido smart contracts.