Limitations and Criticisms of TVL as a Metric While Total Value Locked is a valuable metric for assessing the scale and usage of a DeFi protocol, it has several limitations and has been subject to ...

Total value locked (TVL) can be crypto locked up in a smart contract for any project, in a liquidity pool for lending or staked in a blockchain node for mining crypto that uses a proof-of-stake ...

The blockchain also has $329 million in total value locked (TVL), although Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard believes that metric is overemphasized by crypto communities. Instead ...