As the crypto market sell-off drives the overall TVL below $100 billion, DeFi darlings and blue-chip token prices plummet by more than 60%. Yearn finance (YFI), Aave (AAVE), and Uniswap (UNI) rapidly rose to 'blue-chip unicorn' status, while older protocols like Maker (MKR) and Compound (COMP) saw their prices soar to new record highs, as Decentralized Finance (DeFi) was one of the driving forces behind this year's boom in the cryptocurrency sector.