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Why TVL Arrives and Leaves

At ICODA, we understand the unique hurdles faced by DeFi projects. Here’s how we help tackle them with tailored solutions to increase your TVL and user base.

Low TVL & Metric Stagnation
Attracting initial liquidity and breaking stagnation can be challenging. We employ proven strategies specifically designed to drive TVL growth and ensure sustainable momentum.
Poor Community Engagement
An inactive or disengaged community can hinder your success. Our Community Management strategies rebuild trust, foster loyalty, and turn passive users into active brand advocates.
Outdated or Underperforming Tokenomics
An ineffective token model limits growth. We provide cutting-edge tokenomics redesign, aligning incentives to encourage long-term holding and protocol participation.
Low Visibility in a Crowded Market
Limited search engine visibility affects organic traffic. Our SEO strategies enhance your rankings, boost visibility, and attract a high-value audience of DeFi users and founders.
Building Trust and Credibility
A negative or non-existent reputation can hinder your success. Our Public Relations (PR) strategies build trust and brand awareness in the competitive DeFi market.
Weak Social Media Presence
A strong connection with your audience is essential. Our Social Media solutions build engagement, foster loyalty, and grow brand awareness effectively across platforms like Twitter and Telegram.

Our DeFi Background

Our track record in delivering a measurable increase in TVL and user base speaks for itself.

48% of All New Stakers via Bitcoin DeFi Read more
$340K/Month in Fiat Purchases, 7x ROI Read more
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DeFi Acquisition

The TVL Funnel: What Moves Each Stage

Four stages, four channels, four different ways the number can be wrong. Tracking is named per stage, because a DeFi funnel is the rare one where the conversion event is a public transaction.

Stage Where It Happens What Good Looks Like How This Number Gets Faked How It Is Tracked
Awareness Crypto Twitter, governance forums, audit announcements, the protocol's DeFiLlama page Mentions from accounts with no connection to the team Easily, and it barely matters. Impressions can be bought at any volume, and nobody deposits on an impression. Social listening and referral source, not impressions
Wallet Connect Discord and Telegram communities, docs pages, integration partner pages Connects from wallets that already have on-chain history Wallets created the week a campaign launches inflate this stage before any other. Wallet age and prior activity separate them. Wallet-connect events against unique visitors
First Deposit Onboarding content, rate comparisons, audit-credibility PR, education written for fiat-first buyers Deposits from wallets that were verified before they were counted Sybil farms land here as wallet count rather than capital. On RootstockCollective every attributed wallet was cross-checked against on-chain history before it entered the total: 220 verified stakers, 48.3% of the ecosystem's 455. The staking or deposit transaction itself, read on-chain. Form fills do not count.
Retained TVL Ongoing yield and governance content, integration announcements, milestone coverage TVL still standing after emissions taper This is the stage a growth number is usually quoted from, and the one where the capital is rented. A TVL figure with no retention window attached is a number about incentives. The DeFiLlama TVL history chart read against the emissions schedule, never on its own
Awareness
Easily, and it barely matters. Impressions can be bought at any volume, and nobody deposits on an impression.
Where It Happens Crypto Twitter, governance forums, audit announcements, the protocol's DeFiLlama page What Good Looks Like Mentions from accounts with no connection to the team How It Is Tracked Social listening and referral source, not impressions
Wallet Connect
Wallets created the week a campaign launches inflate this stage before any other. Wallet age and prior activity separate them.
Where It Happens Discord and Telegram communities, docs pages, integration partner pages What Good Looks Like Connects from wallets that already have on-chain history How It Is Tracked Wallet-connect events against unique visitors
First Deposit
Sybil farms land here as wallet count rather than capital. On RootstockCollective every attributed wallet was cross-checked against on-chain history before it entered the total: 220 verified stakers, 48.3% of the ecosystem's 455.
Where It Happens Onboarding content, rate comparisons, audit-credibility PR, education written for fiat-first buyers What Good Looks Like Deposits from wallets that were verified before they were counted How It Is Tracked The staking or deposit transaction itself, read on-chain. Form fills do not count.
Retained TVL
This is the stage a growth number is usually quoted from, and the one where the capital is rented. A TVL figure with no retention window attached is a number about incentives.
Where It Happens Ongoing yield and governance content, integration announcements, milestone coverage What Good Looks Like TVL still standing after emissions taper How It Is Tracked The DeFiLlama TVL history chart read against the emissions schedule, never on its own

Our DeFi Marketing Services

TVL Growth Strategy Read more
Unlock your success with a thoughtfully crafted strategy that blends structure and creativity, tailored perfectly to your protocol. We create a data-driven plan to increase TVL and market share.
Trust Building & PR Read more
Get noticed by the right players. We craft strategic PR campaigns that generate positive buzz and build brand awareness for your protocol, which is essential for attracting significant liquidity.
Community Growth & Retention Read more
Draw in potential users and deliver a dynamic, immersive experience with a community strategy tailored specifically to your needs. We turn passive observers into active advocates.
SEO & AI SEO for DeFi Read more
Climb the search engine ladder and dominate organic traffic. Our SEO experts will optimize your online presence to attract high-value DeFi users and founders searching for a top DeFi agency.
Tokenomics & Incentive Design Read more
Elevate your protocol with a robust and intuitive token model. We craft user-centric incentive programs that keep liquidity providers engaged and coming back for more.
Influencer Marketing for DeFi Read more
The DeFi industry is dynamic and fiercely competitive, making it essential for your business to distinguish itself. We connect you with authentic voices to build credibility.
Performance Marketing for DeFi Read more
To succeed in the competitive DeFi industry, your project must stand out. We run targeted ad campaigns that focus on efficient DeFi user acquisition and deliver measurable ROI.
Social Media Marketing Read more
Connect with DeFi enthusiasts on social media and expand your audience by crafting content that speaks their language on platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and Reddit.
Online Reputation Management Read more
Enhance brand credibility by monitoring, analyzing, and improving your digital image. Mitigate negative content, amplify positive feedback, and build trust within the DeFi community.

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What TVL Hides

What the Number Nets Out

DeFiLlama’s own three exclusions
  • Borrowed assets. Assets borrowed from a lending protocol are not counted toward its TVL — only the coins actually locked in the contracts are. Borrows are reported as a separate metric.
  • Liquid staking. Liquid staking protocols are tracked, and not counted toward chain TVL by default, so native staking does not swamp the DeFi figure.
  • Receipt and LP tokens deposited onward. When a receipt token from one protocol is deposited into a second, the second is flagged as double-counted, and the Doublecount toggle decides whether it is summed.
  • Which is why a protocol’s own TVL and the chain total it sits inside will not add up, and why comparing two protocols means checking what each one’s adapter counts.

What the Number Still Carries

No toggle on the site removes these
  • Deposits the emissions bought. Liquidity mining raises TVL while it runs and gives it back when rewards taper. The chart to read is TVL history against the emissions schedule.
  • Price. TVL is a dollar figure over a token balance, so a move in the token’s own price changes TVL without a single deposit or withdrawal.
  • Wallet count standing in for capital. A staker total is only as good as the verification behind it — on RootstockCollective every attributed wallet was cross-checked against on-chain history before it was counted, which is what makes 220 stakers mean 48.3% of ecosystem growth rather than a dashboard number.
  • Concentration. A headline TVL says nothing about how many wallets it came from, and a figure carried by a handful of depositors moves when one of them leaves.

From Protocol Audit to Retained TVL

Read the Curve Against the Emissions
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We take the baseline off your DeFiLlama page and your own contracts, then line the TVL history up against the emissions schedule. The question the audit answers is which of the existing deposits the incentives are paying for.
Name the Depositor You Are Short Of
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A BTC-native staker, a fiat-first buyer and a yield-rotating LP are three different acquisitions with three different objections. On one algorithmic-stablecoin protocol the gap was fiat-first: 16% APY read as a pyramid to traditional investors until the mechanics were rewritten in their language, and monthly fiat purchase volume went from zero to $340,000 in six months at 7× return on spend.
Put the Content Where That Depositor Already Reads
3
Governance forums, Discord servers picked on the on-chain activity of their members rather than their headcount, docs pages, and the aggregator listing itself. Paid reach on X is the cheapest of these when a crypto account clears review — one cross-chain DeFi protocol reached 3,775,000 impressions and coverage of more than five million users on X.
Attribute Per Source Before You Count
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A unique link per partner community, and every wallet cross-checked against on-chain history before it enters the total. This is slow, which is why most campaigns skip it and report the larger number. It is also what lets an underperforming channel be dropped mid-campaign instead of at the final report.
Report the Transaction, Not the Impression
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The reported number is the staking or deposit transaction, read on-chain, against a named baseline. On RootstockCollective the baseline was 1,095 STRIF holders and the result was 1,550 — 455 new stakers, 220 of them attributed to the campaign, all of it checkable on a block explorer rather than in a dashboard.

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Protocols We Have Grown

Built for every DeFi growth challenge

Pick your role to see how the engagement is shaped.

Established protocols

  • Top-50 DeFi protocols defending TVL, user base and mindshare against new entrants and forks.

The Pain

  • Forks and clones siphon liquidity with identical mechanics and aggressive token incentives.

What we deliver

  • Brand-defense SEO, fork-differentiation content, AI search positioning, TVL-milestone PR cadence.

DEXs & AMMs

  • Automated market makers and decentralized exchanges competing for trading volume and liquidity.

The Pain

  • CEX comparison sites dominate best-DEX SERPs. Liquidity providers discover protocols through aggregators, not organic search.

What we deliver

  • DEX-category SEO, aggregator listing optimization, trading-volume content, AMM explainer strategy.

Lending protocols

  • Overcollateralized and undercollateralized DeFi lending markets scaling borrower and lender acquisition.

The Pain

  • Borrower-intent keywords are dominated by CeFi and TradFi content. DeFi lending concepts need extensive user education.

What we deliver

  • Borrower-intent content, DeFi lending explainers, rate-comparison SEO, audit-credibility PR.

Yield platforms

  • Yield aggregators, liquidity mining programs and staking protocols attracting DeFi-native capital.

The Pain

  • Yield farming APY pages rank poorly due to dynamic content. Aggregator sites surface competitors above the source protocol.

What we deliver

  • Yield-page SEO, APY structured data, staking guide content, cross-protocol integration coverage.

Infra & tooling

  • Oracles, bridges, RPC providers and developer tooling selling B2B to protocols and dApp teams.

The Pain

  • Target audience discovers tools via GitHub, Telegram and DevRel channels, not Google organic search.

What we deliver

  • Developer docs SEO, GitHub README optimization, integration partner link building, DevRel content strategy.

What DeFi Founders Say About Us

Eleanor Gaywood

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Director | RootstockCollective

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Great team, worked to make sure that the strategy suited the business goals. We had to make some tweaks along the way but overall great results.

Roman Aliev

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Product Marketing Manager | Tangem

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They understood our business, audited our brand in AI search results, and flagged issues we hadn’t considered. The insights were practical and easy to act on. They really know their stuff. We’ll definitely work together again.

Navid Ladani

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I’ve been working with ICODA for years and have also met their team personally. Very professional, reliable, and easy to work with. Happy with their work and overall experience!

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Mark Mayhook

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CEO | NeuroTrader AI

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We worked on attracting users and building my personal brand around AI Trading—which helped me get 4,000 people on the waitlist and save a ton of time. Thanks!

Yevhen Nehuliayev

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We collaborated with ICODA during a time-sensitive campaign. The team was very professional and ensured everything was in place on short notice. Their dedication and communication stood out, we felt supported throughout the entire process. We especially appreciated their ability to adapt quickly and meet tight deadlines. Many thanks to the ICODA team from Gunzilla team!

Valerii Brizhatiuk

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Our experience with ICODA was wonderful. Professionalism, high efficiency, and autonomy in production gave us only good impressions.

Sergei Beliaev

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Very much enjoyed working with ICODA. Great ongoing communication with the team. Genuine interest in our business and ability to adjust the approach along the way to maximize traction. Highly recommended!

Laura Geng

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ICODA has been a great resource for helping us grow our social media apparatus. I highly recommend ICODA. They provided prompt responses and helped us a lot in promotion in Korean market.

Bahram Ahmedzade

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We were happy to meet ICODA so early on our journey. Their understanding of what we need was actually much clearer than our own. The team offered a few tools and they were well explained. We picked the airdrops and the youtube influencers. Overall satisfaction is 100/100 and we will definitely come back again.

Aaron Tsai

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ICODA is very knowledgeable about the blockchain industry and has a professional team to help our investor and strategic partner originations. The services they provide are of high quality. What convinced us to work with ICODA is their multiple outsourcing services offering, including marketing and technology.

Irene C.

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ICODA did a great job on our partnership, the staff delivers great support also and I highly recommend their services. We will be working with them again for all our promotional work. Thank you ICODA and Anna, very happy customer here.

Shenshen Hu

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A pleasure to work with, ICODA is very professional and has deep industry knowledge in the local market. Always reply promptly and offer creative solutions.

Hannah Kang

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ICODA was willing to help us in hard circumstances. It was amazing what the team can do in such a short time. Work on PR, Youtube, and Twitter influencers was amazing. Great experience. Willing to work with them long-term.

James O’Connor

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ICODA provided us with the upmost professional quality standard of work and connected our PR articles to many top-tier PR platforms. Always prompt with their replies and provide transparency and clarity when needed.

Dmitriy Dervoed

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ICODA team has performed really great results in the development of marketing strategy, PPC campaigns, SEO, Email marketing, and more for our company. Alex is one of the best project managers. He applies the most efficient ways to achieve the results that make a strong influence on the business’s growth.

Vid David Mihelic

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ICODA team has a very professional approach and moreover, they always find solutions for any given problem. They are responsive, loyal, and always trying to help.

Jia Yung

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We worked with ICODA with the specific goal of entering Russian and Ukrainian markets. To that end, we benefited from ICODA’s know-how and professionalism in entering this specific market.

Charlie Bussat

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We’ve tried using different agencies for the Russian market. ICODA went out of its way and delivered high-quality content and advice to enter this complicated market. We’ll definitely work again with Vlad and his team.

Terry Na

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Working with a team outside Korea often feels a little risky – will they understand the native language, the nuances, details? Well, I can say that the interactions I have had with ICODA have been better than most of my Korea-based partners.

Arabdha Sudhir

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I worked with ICODA on our project. I found them to be very professional and attentive at all times. Dealing with issues & challenges speedily. They have great expertise in and around crypto marketing and promotion.

Henning Rokling

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Friendly staff, accommodating and easy to work with. Generally, ICODA is great to deal with. We also appreciate the quality of the work.

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Frequently Asked Questions about DeFi Marketing

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Check out our common questions, please contact us at post@icoda.io or telegram.

DeFi marketing is a specialized field focused on promoting decentralized finance protocols and applications. It involves more than just advertising; it’s about building trust, educating a highly technical audience, fostering a strong community on platforms like Discord and Telegram, and driving key metrics like TVL and user adoption. Effective DeFi marketing requires a deep understanding of tokenomics, blockchain technology, and the unique motivations of DeFi users.

A DeFi strategy is a comprehensive plan for a protocol’s growth. It’s not just a marketing plan; it integrates product development, tokenomics, community building, and go-to-market actions. A strong DeFi strategy defines the target audience (e.g., yield farmers, institutional clients), sets clear goals (e.g., “increase TVL to $50M”), and outlines the specific steps to achieve them, from designing incentive programs to executing PR campaigns.

General crypto marketing often focuses on hype and token price for a broad audience. DeFi marketing is more about building a sustainable ecosystem for a niche, knowledgeable user base. It requires educating users about a protocol’s utility, building deep trust to secure their assets, fostering an engaged community, and focusing on fundamental metrics like TVL, transaction volume, and user retention, rather than just short-term price action.

A specialized DeFi marketing agency acts as a growth partner for protocols. It develops and executes strategies for user acquisition, PR, and content that resonates with DeFi users. A top DeFi agency like ICODA understands tokenomics, community management, and the importance of metrics like TVL, helping founders to build trust and achieve sustainable growth.

Growing TVL for a new protocol requires a multi-faceted approach. It starts with building trust through security audits and transparent communication. Then, initial liquidity can be attracted via targeted incentive programs (yield farming) and a fair launch. A key part of the strategy is effective DeFi marketing to reach early adopters and build a strong community that will sustain long-term growth.

Effective strategies include targeted airdrops (to real users, not just bots), educational content (tutorials, guides), strategic partnerships with other protocols, an active presence on Crypto Twitter and Reddit, and PR campaigns to build credibility. For broader reach, simplifying the onboarding process for non-crypto natives is also crucial.

 Look for an agency with a proven track record and specific DeFi case studies. A trustworthy agency will focus on business metrics (like TVL), not just vanity metrics (like impressions). They should understand the technical nuances of your project and be transparent about their strategies and reporting. Ask them how they would grow your TVL, and their answer will reveal their level of expertise.

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