DeFi Bridge Directory & Volume Rankings

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "includeChains"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "includeChains": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "examples": [
        true
      ],
      "description": "set whether to include current previous day volume breakdown by chain"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "bridges",
    "dataUpdatedAt"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "chains": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "name"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The chain's name, e.g. 'Polygon', 'Ethereum'. Names a public blockchain network, never a person (see verification.piiReview)."
          },
          "gecko_id": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "CoinGecko id for the chain's native token; observed null for several chains (e.g. Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync Era) with no distinct native gas token tracked separately."
          },
          "tokenSymbol": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Ticker symbol for the chain's native token; null on the same chains gecko_id is null."
          },
          "volumePrevDay": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD bridge volume touching this chain over the previous day."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "Present only when includeChains is true in the input -- a per-chain volume breakdown across all bridges combined. Absent entirely (no key at all, not null/empty) when includeChains is false, confirmed against this tool's own two fixtures."
    },
    "bridges": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "id",
          "name",
          "displayName",
          "chains",
          "destinationChain"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "DefiLlama's own internal bridge id."
          },
          "icon": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "An internal icon identifier string (e.g. 'icons:layerzero'), not a URL."
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The bridge's short/internal name, e.g. 'layerzero', 'ccip'. Names the bridge protocol itself, never a person (see verification.piiReview)."
          },
          "slug": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A URL-friendly identifier; observed on most but not every bridge."
          },
          "chains": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Every chain this bridge connects to."
          },
          "defillamaId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A separate DefiLlama identifier string; observed on most but not every bridge (absent on e.g. 'hyperlane', 'ccip')."
          },
          "displayName": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The bridge's human-readable display name, e.g. 'LayerZero', 'Chainlink CCIP'. Names the bridge protocol itself, never a person (see verification.piiReview)."
          },
          "weeklyVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume over the trailing week."
          },
          "last24hVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume over the trailing 24 hours."
          },
          "monthlyVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume over the trailing month."
          },
          "volumePrevDay": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume for the previous full day."
          },
          "volumePrev2Day": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume for the day before that."
          },
          "lastDailyVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume for the most recently completed day."
          },
          "destinationChain": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The bridge's single destination chain when it has exactly one (e.g. 'Bitcoin', 'Mantle'); observed as the literal string \"false\" for a bridge that connects many chains with no single fixed destination -- \"false\" is a real observed value here, not a boolean."
          },
          "lastHourlyVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume in the most recent hour."
          },
          "dayBeforeLastVolume": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "USD volume for the day before the most recently completed day."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "One entry per bridge protocol DefiLlama tracks, in the order the endpoint returns them (no explicit ranking/sort order confirmed)."
    },
    "dataUpdatedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of when this bridge data was last refreshed upstream. A capture-time PII heuristic flagged this leaf as phone-shaped; confirmed against the raw fixture value ('2026-09-15T01:00:00.000Z') that this is a timestamp, not a phone number (see verification.piiReview)."
    }
  },
  "description": "The bridges result, as returned at routing.responseResultPath ($.output).",
  "additionalProperties": true
}