The DeFi ecosystem shows strong growth with Total Value Locked reaching $94.2 billion across all chains, up 2.8% in 24 hours. Aave leads with $13.2 billion TVL (up 4.1%) as borrowing demand increases, particularly for stablecoins against ETH collateral. Curve maintains $8.7 billion TVL (up 1.9%) with stablecoin pools seeing renewed depth as rates normalize. Lido continues steady growth to $32.1 billion in staked ETH despite broader market uncertainty. USDC lending rates are averaging 4.2% across major protocols, up from 3.8% last week, indicating increased demand for stablecoin borrowing. Cross-chain activity shows Arbitrum and Optimism processing $2.8 billion in combined DeFi volume, representing 34% of Ethereum mainnet activity as Layer-2 migration accelerates.