Zapper To Shut Down DeFi App After Nearly Seven Years

Zapper will shut down its website, mobile apps and API services on August 3, ending a nearly seven-year run for one of DeFi’s better-known portfolio tracking and onchain discovery products.

The wind-down plan covers zapper.xyz, Zapper’s mobile apps and its API services. Existing API customers will receive transition guidance by email as developers prepare to replace wallet, portfolio and transaction-data feeds before service access ends.

Zapper started as a portfolio tracker built during DeFi’s early expansion and later became a broader wallet dashboard for tokens, liquidity positions, NFTs, protocol activity and onchain identity. The app served more than 2 million monthly active users at its peak and processed more than $13 billion in transaction volume.

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Zapper grew during the same cycle that made portfolio trackers, yield dashboards and wallet-discovery tools essential for active DeFi users. The product helped users move across lending markets, liquidity pools, farms and NFT positions at a time when most wallets did not give clean multi-protocol visibility.

The company raised $15 million in Series A funding in 2021, with Framework Ventures leading the round and participation from Mark Cuban, Sound Ventures and other backers. Zapper later expanded beyond portfolio tracking into onchain profiles, social discovery, app integrations and developer data services.

The shutdown reflects a tougher market for consumer-facing crypto apps. Infrastructure, lending, derivatives and RWA products have kept attracting liquidity, but dashboards and social-style onchain apps have faced weaker monetization, higher data costs and harder retention as users spread across more chains, wallets and execution venues.

Shutdown Wave Hits Crypto Apps And Infrastructure

Zapper’s closure adds another name to a wider 2026 shutdown cycle across crypto tools, analytics products and trading platforms. 0xPPL wound down its onchain super app after four years, ending another attempt to turn wallet activity, social identity and trading into a consumer crypto product.

Cardano analytics platform TapTools also prepared to wind down after leadership exits and rising operating costs strained the business. NFTfi later set an August 31 shutdown after NFT lending revenue fell below the cost of maintaining the protocol.

Trading and infrastructure closures have moved in the same direction. Ventuals started shutting down Hyperliquid-based perp markets through a structured settlement and withdrawal process, while Zero Network wound down services as another Ethereum L2 project exited the market.