DeFi Reviews
17 Solana-native platforms, reviewed and organized by category. Every category we track shows up here — including the ones where nothing has met our review bar yet, marked as such rather than hidden.
Looking for leveraged perps or options instead? Those are chain-agnostic verticals with their own hubs — 44+ Perp DEXs and 11 Onchain Options venues, both ranked separately from the Solana-only list below.
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Jupiter
Solana's default swap aggregator, scanning dozens of DEXs to route trades for the best price, limit orders, and DCA.
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Raydium
One of Solana's longest-running AMM DEXs, offering both standard constant-product pools and concentrated-liquidity CLMM pools.
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Orca
A Solana-native AMM built around concentrated-liquidity Whirlpools, widely seen as one of the more approachable interfaces for new LPs.
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Meteora
A Solana liquidity protocol whose DLMM pools use discretized price bins, plus dynamic vaults that route idle liquidity into lending.
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Bulk Exchange
A newer Solana-native perpetuals DEX for leveraged long/short trading against pooled liquidity, competing with more established perps venues.
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Pacifica
A hybrid off-chain-matching, on-chain-settlement Solana perps DEX that reportedly overtook Jupiter Perps as Solana's top venue by daily volume within three months of launch.
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Solana's default swap aggregator, scanning dozens of DEXs to route trades for the best price, limit orders, and DCA.
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Kamino
A Solana lending market paired with automated vaults that manage concentrated-liquidity LP positions so you don't rebalance manually.
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Save
One of Solana's original lending protocols (formerly Solend), running a main pool plus isolated pools for higher-risk collateral.
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MarginFi
MarginFi's Solana lending program, now powering Project 0's unified margin account and cross-venue collateral model.
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Jito
A Solana liquid staking protocol and MEV infrastructure provider — jitoSOL holders earn a share of MEV rewards on top of staking yield.
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Marinade
One of the original Solana liquid staking protocols, issuing mSOL and spreading delegated stake across a broad validator set.
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Sanctum
Infrastructure for launching and swapping liquid staking tokens on Solana, solving fragmented LST-to-LST liquidity with low slippage.
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BlazeStake
A Solana liquid staking protocol issuing bSOL that deliberately directs stake toward smaller, independent validators for decentralization.
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A Solana lending market paired with automated vaults that manage concentrated-liquidity LP positions so you don't rebalance manually.
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A Solana-native AMM built around concentrated-liquidity Whirlpools, widely seen as one of the more approachable interfaces for new LPs.
Read review → Meteora
A Solana liquidity protocol whose DLMM pools use discretized price bins, plus dynamic vaults that route idle liquidity into lending.
Read review → Raydium
One of Solana's longest-running AMM DEXs, offering both standard constant-product pools and concentrated-liquidity CLMM pools.
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Phantom
The most widely used self-custody wallet for Solana, with a strong security track record and the most-impersonated brand in phishing scams.
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Backpack
A Solana self-custody wallet with a built-in exchange and integrated app ecosystem.
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Solflare
A long-running Solana wallet with strong hardware wallet support, available as extension, mobile, and web app.
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