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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
1SKY (Sky)Buyback of SKY plus USDS rewards to SKY stakers$60.25M$68.30M$1.50B4.01%Falling −71%$46.51M to $13.34MBuyback of SKY plus USDS rewards to SKY stakers
2ONDO (Ondo Finance)n/a (no DefiLlama methodology text)$1.98M$0$1.86B0.11%Falling −100%$1.83M to $0n/a (no DefiLlama methodology text)

The four big stablecoin issuers: revenue over 12 months

Issuer12m revenue
Tether$5.94B
Circle USDC$2.38B
Paxos Stablecoin Issuer$123.74M
Ripple USD$51.34M

They pay nothing to token holders, so they are the gap between the 13.9% and 37.4% payout shares above.

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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