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Zapper's closure after seven years tests DeFi's tooling economics

7/9/2026

Zapper, the Mark Cuban-backed DeFi dashboard that served more than 2 million monthly active users and processed over $13 billion in transactions at its peak, has shut down after seven years.

The platform's scale looked like a success story. The shutdown suggests the business beneath it was not.

What Zapper built The service provided crypto market data and portfolio tracking to a user base that, at peak, put it among the more widely used aggregation tools in decentralized finance.

Processing $13 billion in transactions is a real operational footprint, not a statistical asterisk. Seven years is a long run by the standards of a sector that still measures its cycles in months rather than decades.

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