Universe. 1088 projects across 24 sectors, assembled from NEAR Catalog (all 344 projects via its API), AwesomeNEAR (789 of 1,093 listings), the Aurora ecosystem page, the near.org ecosystem page, DefiLlama and news research. Every row carries the URL it was found at. The CSVs are the source of truth for membership; live data only adds metrics.
Traction. TVL, 30-day DEX volume, 30-day fees and 30-day revenue come from the DefiLlama API. 133 projects refresh daily from DefiLlama's history (window ending Nov 12, 2026); the rest keep the Nov 8, 2026 research snapshot. Tiers follow the snapshot thresholds. Tier 1 means TVL at or above $50M, 30-day volume at or above $500M, or 30-day fees at or above $1M; Tier 2 means $5M, $50M or $100K; Tier 3 any measurable activity; “Tracked, negligible” means a DefiLlama listing exists but every figure is zero; a project DefiLlama does not track yet reads “TBD”.
Coverage terms. Not tracked means DefiLlama does not report that metric for the project. It is a coverage gap, not a zero and not unverified data, so blank cells are left out of every sum. Not researched means the field was never checked. Not disclosed and Unknown mean it was checked and nothing was found.
TVL overlap. Summed protocol TVL double counts liquid staking and bridges compared with DefiLlama's default chain TVL, which excludes them. CEX reserves held on NEAR (Binance alone held about $522M on Nov 8, 2026) are excluded from TVL and kept as an “Other traction signal”.
Chain activity and NEAR Intents. Daily transactions, active accounts and new accounts come from NearBlocks and the NEAR BigQuery public dataset (bigquery-public-data.crypto_near_mainnet_us). Intents volume comes from DefiLlama's NEAR Intents adapter and, where a partner JWT is present, from the NEAR Intents Explorer API, which covers 1Click swaps only.
Funding and security. Researched for 75 projects (funding) and 27 projects plus both chains (security). Security facts are shown as found (audits, dated incidents, noted red flags) without a rating. “No published audit found” means none was found in the sources checked, not that the project is unaudited.
Status. 620 listings come only from the 2021 to 2023 AwesomeNEAR directory, which marks everything active, so they read “Legacy listing, status unverified”. They are left out of every card by default; a card whose counts they change has its own “Include legacy” switch. “Defunct” marks protocols whose DefiLlama page no longer resolves.
Confidence. Native-chain classification for directory-only rows is heuristic and carries its own confidence flag. Funding rounds whose confidence is not “Sourced” are muted and labelled. Every project pop-up lists its sources.
Totals in this build. Summed TVL $500,133,180 (NEAR $493,963,479, Aurora $6,169,701), 30d volume $4,052,308,894, 30d fees $6,730,992, 30d revenue $2,135,162.
