Zest Alternatives: Similar Lending Protocols Compared

Zest carries a risk grade of C+ (40/100) and ranks #63 of 95 rated Lending protocols. Below are 94 Lending protocols ranked by safety — from safest to riskiest. 62 of these protocols score lower (safer) than Zest, and 32 score higher (riskier).

The single safest alternative is Tectonic (B, 22/100 — 18 points safer than Zest). See the Zest vs Tectonic comparison to weigh the tradeoffs.

Current Protocol

Zest

Lending

Risk

C+

Value

C-

TVL

$87M

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AlternativeRiskValueTVL

TectonicSafer

D-

$122M

Exactly ProtocolSafer

$3M

AlphaLendSafer

D+

$70M

CapyfiSafer

D-

$8M

Bonzo FinanceSafer

D+

$16M

HyperLendSafer

$477M

Kava LendSafer

C-

$11M

Project 0Safer

D-

$84M

Compound V3Safer

B-

$1.2B

Flux FinanceSafer

B-

$42M

Notional FinanceSafer

B-

C+

$3M

Spark ProtocolSafer

B-

$3.3B

Tropykus RSKSafer

B-

D-

$8M

Aave AptosSafer

B-

$2M

BenqiSafer

B-

$114M

Ionic ProtocolSafer

B-

C-

$2M

TydroSafer

B-

$185M

Blend Pools V2Safer

B-

$128M

EchelonSafer

B-

$18M

Lista LendingSafer

B-

$615M

Silo FinanceSafer

B-

C+

$19M

Colend ProtocolSafer

B-

C-

$1M

FraxlendSafer

B-

C+

$30M

GraniteSafer

B-

D+

$15M

SaveSafer

B-

C-

$75M

YeiLendSafer

B-

C-

$8M

BENDSafer

B-

$12M

ClearpoolSafer

B-

$36M

MorphoSafer

B-

$7.5B

ScallopSafer

B-

D+

$21M

SparkLendSafer

B-

C-

$3.3B

40 AcresSafer

B-

C-

$18M

Aries MarketsSafer

B-

C+

$6M

DolomiteSafer

B-

C-

$156M

Kamino LendSafer

B-

C+

$1.3B

JustLendSafer

B-

$3.6B

KineticSafer

B-

D-

$54M

NeverlandSafer

B-

C-

$45M

Seamless ProtocolSafer

B-

$14M

SuilendSafer

B-

C+

$138M

ZeroLendSafer

B-

C-

$4M

Aave V2Safer

B-

$122M

Ajna ProtocolSafer

B-

C-

$476,000

AlchemixSafer

B-

C-

$34M

dForceSafer

B-

D+

$1M

Echo LendingSafer

B-

D-

$127M

Folks Finance LendingSafer

B-

C-

$29M

Joule FinanceSafer

B-

D-

$216,000

FiraSafer

C+

D+

$9M

FluidSafer

C+

$794M

Gearbox ProtocolSafer

C+

$22M

Inverse Finance FiRMSafer

C+

D+

$23M

Lista DAOSafer

C+

C-

$615M

Navi ProtocolSafer

C+

C-

$159M

EtherFi Borrowing MarketSafer

C+

$165M

Curve LlamalendSafer

C+

$68M

Jupiter LendSafer

C+

B-

$921M

MarginfiSafer

C+

C-

$36M

Taker ProtocolSafer

C+

D-

$50M

Vaulta REXSafer

C+

$30M

Kamino FinanceSafer

C+

$1.3B

TermMaxSafer

C+

C-

$31M

Compound V2

C+

C-

$118M

Templar Protocol

C+

D-

$23M

Euler V2

C+

$331M

Hydration Lending

C+

D+

$36M

Liqwid

C+

C-

$25M

Aave V4

C+

$72M

Anvil

C+

C-

$16M

Avalon Labs

C+

C-

$1M

Curvance

C+

$59M

Folks Finance xChain

C+

$9M

MetalX Lending

$32M

Vesu

D-

$19M

HypurrFi Pooled

D+

$15M

Rhea Lend

C-

$113M

3jane Lending

$88,000

Euler Finance

C+

$331M

Ion Protocol

B-

$30,000

Alpaca Finance 2.0

D-

$13M

Moonwell

D+

$48M

Wildcat Protocol

C-

$10M

Native Credit Pool

D+

$36M

Loopscale

D-

$86M

Nostra Finance

C+

$55M

Venus Protocol

C+

$1.1B

Amber Finance

D-

Aave V3

C-

B+

$13.4B

Maple Finance

C-

$2.0B

Silo V2

C-

D+

$19M

YieldBlox

D+

$50,000

Radiant Capital

D+

$1M

Abracadabra

D+

$7M

Tapioca

D+

D-

$10M

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