Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects refer to financial projects that are built on blockchain technology for providing peer-to-peer services like lending, borrowing, trading, and asset management. LunarCrush, a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has unveiled the list of Top 10 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Projects based on social activity.
TOP #DEFI PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$SOL $XRP $LINK $ZEC $HBAR $ASTER $VVS $MON $XTZ $ICP pic.twitter.com/9nSvJjuiQK
— PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) February 12, 2026
Fundamentally, Social activity encompasses Engaged Posts and Interactions. These projects are named as Solana ($SOL), $XRP ($XRP), Chainlink ($LINK), Zcash ($ZEC), Hedera ($HBAR), Aster ($ASTER), $VVS Finance ($VVS), Monad ($MON), Tezos ($XTZ), and Internet Computer ($ICP). In the given list, Solana ($SOL) is dominating with 83.2K Engaged Posts and 21.2M Interactions. Phoenix Group has released this news through its official X account.
$XRP Outpaces $LINK with Massive 28.7M Interaction Gap
$XRP ($XRP) and Chainlink ($LINK) are at the third and fourth positions, with 42.2K, 11.0K in Engaged Posts, and 31.8M, 3.1M, respectively. Both these DeFi projects got a difference of 31.2K in Engaged Posts and also a difference of 28.7M in Interactions. Next one is Zcash ($ZEC) with 1.2M Interactions and successfully able to get 9.9K in Engaged Posts.
Furthermore, Hedera ($HBAR) positioned itself at the 5th position and gained 9.5K in Engaged Posts with an Interactions of 418.6K. Simultaneously, two DeFi projects are very close in terms of Engaged Posts, with only a difference of 0.1K. These two DeFi projects are Aster ($ASTER) and $VVS Finance ($VVS), with Engaged Posts of 7.7K, 7.6K along with the Interactions of 1.5M and 104.3K.
Monad Shows Strength While Tezos and $ICP Compete at the Bottom
Monad ($MON) is also among the top 10 DeFi projects of February 12, 2026. Monad ($MON) got 6.6K Engaged Posts and secured 8th position with 1.1M Interactions. Tezos ($XTZ) is the DeFi project that attained the second last position with 221.8K in Interactions and has 3.9K Engaged Posts in the market. These two DeFi projects have a difference of 2.7K in Engaged Posts, but this difference got hype in Interactions, approximately 878.2K.
Last but not least, Internet Computer ($ICP) is the DeFi project that got the last position in the ranking list of daily topped 10 projects. Internet Computer ($ICP) has efficiently managed to get 3.6K in Engaged Posts and 296.3K in Interactions. This project got a difference of 0.3K with its earlier project ($XTZ).
