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Protocol revenue and holder payouts

Which protocols and chains pay their token holders through buybacks, burns or fee share, and how much.

Updated 3 Nov 2026, 06:01 UTC

Last 12 monthsFrom our holder-payouts dataset, as of 24 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC.

Protocol revenueAll protocols; $5.03B without the stablecoin issuers$13.53B
Holder payoutsBuybacks, burns and fee share; $1.83B from the main protocols: 79 paid $1M or more, 22 paid $10M or more$1.88B
Payout share of revenueWithout the stablecoin issuers; 13.9% with Tether, Circle, Paxos and RLUSD37.4%
Top-3 concentrationOf the main protocols' payouts, from HYPE, PUMP, AERO59.1%

Last 30 daysDefiLlama's own count across every protocol.

Revenue$1.25B
Paid to holders$229.65M
Fees paid$2.28B
Fees kept as revenue54.9%
Revenue, 12 months$13.48B

Leaderboard

#Token (protocol)12m trend (H2 vs H1)How it pays
1TRX (Tron)Chain fee burn: TRX fees burned$345.74M$291.23M$30.47B1.13%Falling −8%$179.21M to $164.99MChain fee burn: TRX fees burned
2ETH (Ethereum)Chain fee burn: base and blob fees burned$62.16M$78.76M$274.29B0.02%Falling −18%$33.91M to $27.93MChain fee burn: base and blob fees burned
3SOL (Solana)Chain fee burn: 50% of base fees burned$27.42M$38.44M$54.08B0.05%Falling −21%$15.26M to $12.01MChain fee burn: 50% of base fees burned
4BNB (BSC)Chain fee burn: 10% of BNB gas fees burned$20.08M$23.84M$91.31B0.02%Falling −27%$11.24M to $8.24MChain fee burn: 10% of BNB gas fees burned
5HYPE (Hyperliquid L1)Chain fee burn: HyperEVM gas burned (HYPE)$10.39M$8.39M$19.92B0.05%Falling −4%$5.29M to $5.06MChain fee burn: HyperEVM gas burned (HYPE)
6QUAI (Quai)Fees buy back and burn QUAI$5.80M$3.71M$7.56M76.83%Falling −13%$3.10M to $2.70MFees buy back and burn QUAI
7AVAX (Avalanche)Chain fee burn: AVAX fees burned$3.88M$5.22M$3.68B0.11%Falling −69%$2.94M to $914.14KChain fee burn: AVAX fees burned
8INJ (Injective)Chain fee burn: gas plus weekly burn auction$3.68M$2.76M$700.67M0.53%Falling −26%$2.11M to $1.55MChain fee burn: gas plus weekly burn auction
9ICP (ICP)Chain fee burn: cycles burn ICP$2.03M$2.30M$1.36B0.15%Falling −16%$1.10M to $924.11KChain fee burn: cycles burn ICP
10FIL (Filecoin)Chain fee burn: FIL fees burned$1.98M$841.29K$725.54M0.27%Falling −42%$1.25M to $728.19KChain fee burn: FIL fees burned
11MON (Monad)Chain fee burn: MON base fees burned$1.58M$4.84M$201.25M0.78%Rising +260%$343.10K to $1.23MChain fee burn: MON base fees burned
12TON (TON)Chain fee burn: 50% of TON fees burned$1.02M$413.24K$3.33B0.03%Falling −57%$714.39K to $303.73KChain fee burn: 50% of TON fees burned

A chain's payout is the fees it burns, which shrinks the supply of its token for every holder.

Sources: DefiLlama (revenue, holders revenue and fees, every protocol) and the Grand Line holder-payouts dataset (DefiLlama's holders revenue added up by token, market caps by CoinGecko id, and how each one pays in plain words).

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