DeFi Saver Review 2025: Pros, Cons, & Features

DeFi Saver Overview

What is DeFi Saver?

DeFi Saver is a powerful, user-friendly tool for managing your crypto and DeFi positions.

It connects you to top DeFi protocols including Aave, Maker, and Compound, and it’s completely non-custodial—meaning you’re always in control of your funds.

Think all-in-one portal to your favorite DApps, from lending platforms to exchanges, and bridges too.

With DeFi Saver, you can track and automate your portfolio, swap tokens, manage leverage, shift loans between protocols, and even create custom transactions—all in one place.

Extra features like stop loss, take profit, and automated leverage management help protect your assets and optimize returns without constant monitoring.

It also offers nifty tools for advanced strategies like leveraged staking, and lets you try out ideas risk-free in a simulation mode. Security is a priority, with audited smart contracts and a bug bounty program to keep everything safe.

In short, DeFi Saver is like having a personal DeFi assistant to simplify and supercharge your crypto experience.

Key Features

• All-in-one DeFi Management: Create and manage positions in 12+ major DeFi protocols like Aave, Compound, Maker, Morpho, and many more—all from a single dashboard.
• Multi-network support: Manage your DeFi across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism networks.
• Leverage Management: Open a leveraged lending position in one transaction, and just a few clicks. The Boost and Repay tools help you adjust your leverage based on market moves—boost when collateral prices rise, or unwind to stay safe when they fall.
• Notifications: Stay in the loop with updates and warnings delivered straight to you via Telegram, email and more—never miss a thing.
• Advanced Token Swaps: Swap tokens, set up limit orders, or automate with DCA—all while getting the best rates from multiple sources.
• Non-custodial: You’re always in control of your funds. DeFi Saver just gives you a better way to use your favorite dapps.
• Automation: Let the platform handle things like stop-loss, take-profit, and leverage adjustments so you can focus on your strategy. Set your rules and let it handle the rest.

Cool Extras

• Loan Shifter: This tool makes it easy to move your loans between different DeFi platforms or adjust your collateral and debt in just one transaction.
• Recipe Creator: Create a custom bundle of multiple steps across different DeFi platforms into one seamless transaction.
• Leveraged Staking: Boost your staking yields by using leverage. It’s user-friendly and integrates with top DeFi lending platforms to maximize your returns.
• TxSaver: Protects your transactions against MEV attacks, covering failed transaction costs, and letting you pay gas fees from your position—no extra fees included.
• Simulation Mode: Test out strategies risk-free in a sandbox environment without needing real funds or connecting your wallet.

Our DeFi Saver Expert Review

In this first-hand DeFi Saver review, I’m going to try out some of the main features of the platform. I’ll also give you my candid thoughts along the way—good and bad.

Let’s get into it!

First impressions: User interface

When I first tried out DeFi Saver, my immediate impression was how clean and polished the interface looked. It’s clear they’ve put a lot of effort into making it as intuitive as possible, which I really appreciated.

That said, it quickly became obvious that it’s built for users who already have some experience with DeFi.

Even though they’ve done an amazing job simplifying things, there’s still a lot happening on the screen—so understanding a fair amount of DeFi is definitely important to get the most out of it.

Connect a wallet and get started

To get started with DeFi Saver, simply connect your existing web3 wallet, such as Uniswap Wallet, Coinbase Wallet, or Phantom.

You can also connect with any other web3 wallet that has WalletConnect functionality, and even a Ledger or Trezor hardware wallet too.

Once connected, you’ll instantly see a summary of your wallet’s total value and a breakdown of the individual assets and positions in recognized DeFi protocols. It even shows you your total claimable rewards from these protocols, which is pretty cool.

Instead of jumping into each protocol’s separate dashboard, you can just connect to DeFi Saver and see everything in one place. It gives you a clean summary of all your assets and positions, so you don’t have to waste time bouncing between apps.

You can also switch between networks to check out your balances and positions on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism.

Just a heads up—each network and its positions can only be viewed separately, so you’ll need to toggle between them as needed.

Set up a Safe Wallet

To get the full DeFi Saver experience, it’s best to set up a Safe wallet — a popular brand of smart wallet — before using the platform.

Why? Well, most of DeFi Saver’s key functions are only possible with a compatible smart wallet. More specifically, any advanced function requires a Safe wallet. This applies to any one-transaction tool that carries out several actions at once, for example, Boost and Repay.

Smart wallet accounts are specifically built to handle complex actions. As a result, they enable direct interaction with your loans. You can still use DeFi Saver without a Safe wallet — but you might miss out on some of the cooler functions.

To set one up, click your connected wallet in the top right corner, select “Create Safe wallet” and confirm the transaction. This may cost a little gas to set up, but will save you plenty in the long-run if you’re adjusting DeFi positions.

Use this new smart wallet to set up new positions that can be used with the rest of the platform, and you’ll be able to access all of the following features without a hitch!

Already have a Safe Wallet? Awesome! You can still use it with DeFi Saver, but here’s the important bit: you need to connect as the owner of the wallet. If you skip that step, DeFi Saver will assume you need a new Safe Wallet and create one for you—so don’t forget to double-check that you’re connected correctly.

Quick heads-up:Since March 2024, DeFi Saver has switched from DSProxy wallets to Safe Wallets. If you create a smart wallet through DeFi Saver now, you’re getting a Safe Wallet that works seamlessly with the platform—and bonus, you can also access it directly through the Safe app.

Using a DeFi protocol

In the left sidebar, you’ll see quicklinks to access an interface for any one of the DApps supported by DeFi Saver.

They’ve integrated a majority of popular DeFi DApps for each network, so there’s a good chance you’ll find your favorite one in there.

Simply hover your cursor over the sidebar, and it will show you the names of the protocols alongside their logos.

Say I want to use Aave to lend some funds for a return.To do so, I simply find Aave in the sidebar (easy peasy, it’s the very first item).

From here, I’ll be taken to DeFi Saver’s dashboard for Aave—the data is all pulled from the public blockchain.

If I had any positions open on Aave already, they’d show here.This would include critical info such as:

• Total funds supplied to Aave
• Total funds borrowed from Aave
• Your collateral safety ratio
• A breakdown of your supplied assets
• Borrow power used, as a percentage

You’ll also see buttons below this panel, for interacting with the Aave protocol as you would on the official Aave dapp.

I click “Supply” to lend funds to the protocol.

Upon entering the amount, the UI showed me what changes are projected to happen (as a result of the lending deposit) to my supply balance, APY, safety ratio, and more.

Once it’s done, you’ll see the new, updated summary for your positions in Aave.

Create Leveraged Positions

Want to create a leveraged position, without the manual hassle of multiple transactions on multiple protocols?

This is what DeFi Saver’s leverage feature can do for you. Typically, you’d have to take multiple steps directly on both a lending protocol and a DEX to achieve this. But with DeFi Saver, you can do it all in a single transaction—and without the guesswork.

Simply choose your desired collateral and debt assets, your ideal leverage on the position, and voila! You have a leveraged position summary ready to go.

Here, I’ve selected to open a 2x leveraged position, borrowing $DAI.

The function uses this borrowed $DAI to automatically buy more of my collateral asset ($ETH), giving me twice the exposure to $ETH.

Automation: Your safety net

DeFi Saver’s Automation feature takes the stress out of managing loans and collateral by handling the tricky stuff for you.

Here’s what it can do:

• Automated Leverage Management: Keeps your position safe by adjusting your loan automatically if your collateral value drops (to avoid liquidation) or goes up (to maximize opportunities).
• Stop Loss & Take Profit: Set a target price to close your position, locking in profits or cutting losses without constant monitoring.
• Trailing Stop: Use percentage-based triggers that adjust dynamically with the market, offering more flexibility.
• Savings Liquidation Protection (Maker): Links your vault to Smart Savings, using yield to pay down debt if collateral dips too low.
• Boost on Target Price: Automatically boost your position when your collateral price hits a set threshold.

It’s basically a set-it-and-forget-it tool that keeps your positions secure and running smoothly, so you can focus on your overall strategy.

Limits on Automation

DeFi Saver’s Automation is best for bigger positions because transaction fees can stack up, especially during busy markets.

On Ethereum mainnet, the platform won’t let you use automation unless you have a position worth more than $30,000 (USD). You’ll also need to set up your position in a Smart Wallet to use it.

Not to worry if you’re a Layer 2 (L2) user, though. For Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism, this minimum position size is only $500.

As for fees, you’ll cover the usual transaction costs and a small service fee (around 0.3%) on anything that gets repaid or leveraged.

The good news? You don’t pay anything just for keeping automation running—it only costs you when it actually takes action.

Notifications: Stay in the loop

DeFi Saver makes it easy to stay on top of your positions with a variety of notification options.

You’ll automatically get in-app updates whenever an automated transaction is executed for your positions—this is turned on by default for all automated strategies.

But the coolest part is that you can also enable push notifications through other channels like Telegram, email, or Blockscan Chat.This makes it easy to stay informed at any time, including when you’re on the go.

You can also set up custom ratio alerts, so that you’re notified if your position’s safety ratio goes above or below a specific level. You can even create multiple alerts for different thresholds.

Exchange: Best rate swaps

Swapping tokens on DeFi Saver is super straightforward and completely non-custodial.

The best part? There are no extra service fees for simple swaps, so you're not paying anything extra just to trade your tokens.

DeFi Saver taps into some of the best liquidity sources out there, including popular DEX aggregators like 1inch, Paraswap, Kyberswap, and 0x. It also has direct integrations with Uniswap v3, Uniswap v2, Curve, and Sushiswap.

The app automatically finds the best rate for you, but if you’re feeling picky, you can manually select which source to use.

Limit orders

Limit orders on DeFi Saver let you automate your swaps by setting a target rate. If the market hits your rate, the order executes automatically.

They only go through if the conditions you set are fully met, so there’s no risk of partial execution. You can also cancel them before they expire, though canceling requires a small on-chain transaction fee.

It’s a great way to trade on your terms without needing to constantly monitor prices.

Dollar-cost averaging (DCA)

Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) on DeFi Saver is a simple way to automate regular token swaps at set intervals and amounts.

It’s great for staying consistent and avoiding the stress of trying to time the market.

Swaps only go through when network fees are reasonable (less than 5% of the swap amount), so you’re not overpaying.

If you ever want to stop, you can cancel your DCA plan anytime—just keep in mind there’s a small transaction fee for canceling.

It’s an easy, hassle-free way to manage your portfolio over time.

Loan Shifter Tool

My Aave v3 loan above—lending $USDC, borrowing $ETH against it.

If for whatever reason I wanted to switch protocols and open a new position (or an identical one), I’d have to take several steps; repay the loan, withdraw my collateral, deposit that collateral in the new protocol, and borrow against it in the new protocol.

One of the coolest extra features in DeFi Saver is its Loan Shifter tool, which can do all of the above in a single transaction.

Note: You’ll need an active loan or lending position in a DeFi Saver-compatible smart wallet to do this.

To use the Loan Shifter, head to the bottom of the sidebar and pick your position by choosing the protocol, your collateral, and the debt asset.

Then, select the new protocol you want to switch to, along with the new collateral and debt assets. These don’t have to match the original, so you can mix things up if you want.

When everything’s set, just hit “Shift,” confirm the transaction, and boom—you’ve got a new loan in a new protocol!

Recipe Creator

The Recipe Creator is a way for everyday DeFi users to take advantage of performing several steps of transactions in one step—whether that involves leveraging flash loans, or simply getting the most out of DeFi composability.

“Recipes” with this tool can be made completely from scratch, or you can simply just use one of the pre-assembled ones saved to the protocol.

For example, one preset Recipe helps you leverage your wstETH-ETH position on Aave v3, by converting $ETH to Lido's $wstETH and borrowing $ETH to buy more $wstETH. This boosts your staking rewards by increasing the amount you’re earning yield on.

The recipe builder was really cool, and gives regular users the power to program their own multi-step transaction.

Simply drag and drop actions from the bottom of the window, and then fill out the details for what you want each part of the transaction to do.

Once you have everything planned out, you can hit “Execute” and confirm the transaction.

TxSaver: Smoother and Safer Transactions

One of DeFi Saver's most recent features is TxSaver—an optional feature designed to make DeFi transactions smoother, safer, and more cost-effective.

What does TxSaver do?

1. Protects your swaps from MEV attacks: TxSaver uses MEV-preventing RPCs, so you always get the best rates without falling victim to sandwich attacks.
2. Covers the cost of failed transactions: If your transaction reverts, you won’t have to pay a cent.
3. Simplifies gas management: Pay gas fees directly from your position or the assets involved in the transaction, so you don’t need to hold extra ETH during critical moments.
4. No additional service fees: Just pay the usual gas cost based on network conditions.

If you want to activate TxSaver, simply toggle it on using the button on your next transaction, in the transaction confirmation box.

TxSaver supports swaps, Boosts, Repays, and leveraged position management, on Ethereum Mainnet and Arbitrum. Support for Optimism and Base is coming soon.

Transaction Simulation

Not sure if your Recipe (or any other transaction) is going to work out as planned?

Save yourself the gas fees and the headache, but toggling on “Simulation” in the sidebar. This will enable simulation mode—a test mode that doesn’t use real crypto, but DOES use the real current state of the blockchain.

When turned on, you will get a fictional 100 $Eth to play around, and see how everything works.

This way, you can check that your proposed transaction—whatever that may be—will work out as you intend.

Customer Service

With DeFi Save being a trustless protocol, most of the responsibility is on you, the user, to get things right. They don’t hold your funds for you, nor can they go into the blockchain and fix anything you got wrong.

With that said, they do have a ton of resources to make sure that you get the most out of your DeFi Saver experience.

This begins with the DeFi Saver Knowledge Base, a written help section that contains written information for almost every feature of the platform.

Here, you’ll also find some quick links to different channels where you can get interactive help from the team and even the wider community.

Here they are for quick access:

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/XGDJHhZ
• X (twitter): https://twitter.com/DeFiSaver
• Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/defisaver
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/defisaver/

I gave the Discord server a go, and was wildly impressed with how quickly I was able to get a reply to my own inquiry.

The DeFi Saver community specialist in the support server answered my question in less than two minutes, and even booted a phishing bot in front of my eyes—within seconds of it popping up.

With Discord being just one of multiple communication channels, I’m very impressed with DeFi Saver’s attention to their users.

Who’s DeFi Saver For?

• Active DeFi Traders: DeFi Saver is a game-changer for active traders, letting you manage positions across multiple platforms from one place. Swap tokens, snag the best rates, automate strategies like DCA and limit orders, or bundle complex moves with a single click—it’s all about trading smarter, not harder.
• Yield Maximizers: If staking and yield farming are your thing, DeFi Saver makes it easy to level up. With tools like leverage management, liquidation protection, and access to top protocols, you can safely boost your positions and maximize rewards without breaking a sweat.
• Set-It-and-Forget-It Investors: Don’t want to micromanage your DeFi? DeFi Saver’s automation handles the tough stuff, like liquidation protection and stop-loss triggers, so you can relax while your portfolio runs smoothly in the background.

Who’s it Not For?

• Casual Crypto Holders: If you’re just buying and holding crypto without diving into DeFi, DeFi Saver might not be your thing. Its advanced features like automation and leverage management can feel a bit much if you’re not using DeFi strategies.
• Low-Budget Ethereum L1 Users: For smaller portfolios on Ethereum mainnet, the $30,000 limit for tools like automation or leverage management might not be worth it. However, on Layer 2 networks, the lower $500 limit makes these features much more accessible for most users.

DeFi Saver Alternatives

DeFi Saver vs. Instadapp

DeFi Saver is all about control and advanced features. It’s packed with tools like automation, detailed leverage management, Loan Shifter, and Recipe Creator, making it great for users who want to fine-tune their strategies and tackle more complex DeFi moves.

Instadapp, especially with its Lite app, is more suited toward for users who want something simple for borrowing, lending, or swapping—ideal for beginners or those sticking to straightforward strategies.

They both support a similar range of chains and protocols, with DeFi Saver supporting more protocols and Instadapp supporting more networks.

In short, DeFi Saver is the power-user’s dream for managing advanced DeFi strategies, while Instadapp caters more to simpler needs.

Is DeFi Saver Safe to Use?

DeFi Saver Founders

DeFi Saver got its start in 2019, thanks to Nenad Palinkašević and a skilled team of developers from Decenter, a blockchain R&D company with loads of Ethereum experience.

Nenad, an early adopter of Ethereum and Maker, came up with the idea for DeFi Saver after nearly getting liquidated during a market crash. That close call made him realize how much users needed better tools to manage their DeFi positions without all the hassle and stress.

Originally called CDP Saver and focused solely on Maker, the platform quickly grew into a full-on DeFi management app. Now, it supports major protocols like Aave and Compound and offers powerful features like automation and leverage tools.

Overall, the platform is backed by a team that really knows DeFi inside and out.

Has DeFi Saver Been Audited?

Although it’s partially an interface layer on already-existing Defi protocols, DeFi Saver is more than just a gateway. It also uses its own custom smart contracts to power features like automation, liquidation protection, and Smart Wallets.

Since these contracts handle transactions and interact with user funds, security is a top priority. To make sure everything is rock solid, DeFi Saver has undergone multiple audits.

ConsenSys Diligence—a leading name in blockchain security—has reviewed the platform’s V3 code in 2021. Around the same time, Dedaub audited key features like Automation and the Strategies module, wrapping up their reviews in 2021 and 2022.

These audits from top blockchain security firms show that DeFi Saver has been thoroughly checked out, so you can feel pretty confident it’s safe to use.

Bug bounty program

DeFi Saver has a bug bounty program on ImmuneFi that’s been running since 2021.

They’re offering up to $350,000 for anyone who finds critical vulnerabilities in their smart contracts, app, or website. The goal is to keep everything secure and prevent issues like lost funds or unauthorized access.

It’s a smart way to crowdsource security and keep the platform safe for users.

Final Thoughts On DeFi Saver

DeFi Saver is a game-changer for DeFi power users.

It lets you handle all your positions across major protocols from one place, giving you the tools to tweak, monitor, and switch things up like a pro.

The platform is polished, audited, and backed by solid customer support to help if you hit a snag. With features like swaps, bridges, and the ability to create custom bundled transactions, it’s pretty much a one-stop shop for all your DeFi needs.

You might not need another DeFi app again!

DeFi Saver Frequently Asked Questions