Overview
BendingAI is an analytics website that shows what is happening inside Cardano's DeFi apps, the lending, trading, and staking services that run without a bank in the middle. You can rank tokens, see who is borrowing and staking, and follow leaderboards of the largest wallets and most profitable traders. It suits traders and researchers who want one dashboard instead of checking each app separately.
BendingAI covers Cardano only and is run by Bending Labs, the company named in its terms of use. Those terms describe the site as a data provider and analysis tool that reads public blockchain data and does not process transactions or facilitate trading1. Cardano.org lists BendingAI in its apps directory under Analytics2. Moneta, the company behind the USDM stablecoin (a token designed to hold a steady one-dollar value), lists it as an analytics partner that tracks USDM liquidity3.
Key Features
- One ranked table of Cardano tokens. The market page ranks native tokens by price, trading volume, liquidity, market cap, and number of holders, with tabs for DeFi, lending, and stablecoin tokens4.
- See who is borrowing, and against what. The Lending Dashboard lists open loans across lending apps, showing each loan, its collateral (the assets locked to back it), the interest rate, and the loan-to-value ratio5.
- Staking positions across many apps. BendingAI's staking view lists stakers, their balances, and their share of each pool for apps such as Liqwid, Minswap, Indigo, Iagon, and Genius Yield6.
- Rankings of the biggest DeFi wallets. The DeFi Leaderboard ranks wallets by the total value they hold across supported apps, including Minswap, SundaeSwap, Liqwid, Indigo, and FluidTokens7.
- A window into perpetuals traders. The Strike Leaderboard follows traders on Strike Finance, a perpetuals exchange where people trade on price moves with borrowed funds, showing each trader's leverage, win rate, open positions, and profit or loss8.
What to Expect
The token market table has views for trending tokens, market cap, and the biggest gainers. You can star tokens to build a favorites list4. Opening a token shows its holders, its liquidity pools, and any loans tied to it.
The lending, staking, and leaderboard pages read like large spreadsheets. On the Lending Dashboard, each borrower row links to that wallet's BendingAI portfolio page, and each loan links out to the Cardanoscan block explorer so you can check the underlying transaction5. Portfolio pages look up a wallet by its stake address, the public ID that groups a Cardano wallet's addresses. That makes it easy to follow one large borrower or staker from page to page.
Some tools sit behind BendingAI PRO. The site's menu marks the Strike Leaderboard, Lending Dashboard, DeFi Leaderboard, and Wallet Bundling as PRO tools5. Wallet Bundling lets you group related Cardano wallet addresses into bundles and track their total assets in one dashboard9. PRO is sold as short passes paid in ADA, ranging from one day to one month, and you pay from a supported Cardano wallet10.
For casual users, the market table works like a price tracker for Cardano tokens. Traders get more from the leaderboards and lending views, which show where large wallets are moving money. Researchers and writers can use the loan, staking, and holder tables to check claims about a token or app against on-chain data.
