Following the latest flash crash that offset the recent price run in the digital currency ecosystem, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has picked up a recovery that is evident in its Total Value Locked (TVL). According to data from DeFiPulse, the current TVL for all of its listed DeFi protocols was pegged at $86.9 billion at the time of writing. The core growth metric for the DeFi ecosystem has seen very sharp fluctuations since the beginning of the week.