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Decentralized finance (DeFi) and social decentralized applications (dApps) experienced a significant increase in daily unique active wallets (dUAW) in August. The broader dApp industry reached a record average of 17 million dUAWs, marking a 9% increase from the previous month, according to a report by DappRadar.
DeFi
Decentralized exchanges Raydium and Uniswap v2 recorded 18.8 million and 4.8 million monthly unique active wallets, respectively, in August. This performance secured them the positions of the second and fourth most active applications in the blockchain sector for the period.
Raydium demonstrated robust growth with a 107% month-over-month increase in activity, whereas Uniswap v2 saw a 9% decline. These figures highlight the expanding trend of user activity on the Solana network.
Despite accounting for two of the five most interacted platforms last month and achieving nearly a 10% increase in monthly unique users, DeFi applications averaged 2 million dUAWs. Consequently, they represented only 12% of all activity recorded during the month.
Social
The social sector captured 23% of industry activity with 3.9 million dUAWs in August, trailing only gaming applications, which dominated with a 24% share.
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The opBNB-based social platform CARV emerged as the most utilized application last month, recording 28 million unique active wallets—a staggering 2,331% month-over-month increase.
Additionally, the Web3-based shopping application KAI-CHING attracted 16.7 million monthly unique active users, making it the second-largest application by usage in August. This achievement is particularly notable given that the app, deployed on the Near Protocol, managed this growth despite a 4% reduction in its user base.
HOT Game, also operating on Near infrastructure, rounded out the top five most used blockchain applications in August with 4.1 million monthly unique active wallets.
Falling TVL and Revenue
While DeFi applications experienced increased activity, the sector’s total value locked (TVL) and application revenue did not grow in parallel.
DeFi dApps suffered a 15% decline in August, with TVL dropping to $124 billion as the broader cryptocurrency market experienced downturns.
In terms of revenue, DeFi applications recorded one of their weakest months year-to-date, generating $65.4 million according to TokenTerminal data. This represents a 13% decrease from July’s revenue of approximately $75 million, contrasting sharply with the rising user activity observed in the previous month.
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