TVL is a metric used to measure the total amount of funds that have been locked up in a DeFi protocol. It is an important indicator of the health and activity of the DeFi ecosystem, providing an indication of the level of trust that users have in the protocol. It also serves as an indication of the potential for additional growth for the protocol.
EVM Benchmark is a tool that measures the performance of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications running on Ethereum. It measures the time it takes for an application to execute a certain number of operations and the amount of memory used. This benchmark can be used to compare different implementations of the EVM and to identify potential bottlenecks in the code.