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Apart from the points mentioned before, there are also the following issues when counting TVL on bridges:
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Initially we counted matic staking for polygon and the tokens locked on the polygon bridge towards polygon's TVL, along with other bridges (eg: xdai) or staking protocols (eg: stacks). However someone pointed out that this was creating unfair comparisons between chains because:
To solve this unfairness we had to make the decision of whether to count everything (although choosing how to count native ethereum tokens would be hard) or not count anything.
We asked our community and the most common answer we got is that most people wanted to use defillama to check how much defi adoption there is on a chain, so they wanted to see the TVL of the applications built on the chain, rather than how much money is staked.
Due to this, we removed native staking and bridges from the total TVL charts, while keeping the projects on the list. However, people kept getting confused about the polygon listing (which tracked bridged tvl and staked matic) and the tvl chart, which tracked the TVL of all the defi dapps on polygon, so we removed the listing from the main list, and along with it we removed all the other similar ones like STX to keep it fair.
After removing these from the main list, we moved these to a different "Chain" section, where you could see all these chain-native listings. However, users kept getting confused so we removed that as well. Here I ran out of ideas on how to display these while preventing people from getting confused, so we haven't been added them to any other list. You can still find them by searching for them or through their URL.
This process was very public, most of the discussions happened on twitter and no decision was made on closed group chats.
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