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Curve is a decentralized exchange (DEX) designed for efficient stablecoin trading. It is like Uniswap in that it uses liquidity pools, it’s non-custodial, and it rewards its liquidity providers. However, because Curve focuses solely on stablecoins, it costs less to use.
The finance industry is one of the most important in the world, and many may take it for granted. In fact, some may assume that nearly everyone in the world has a bank account and is connected to a bank. This, however, is a false assumption. In fact, nearly a fourth of the population remains “unbanked” - without access to existing financial infrastructure. According to a recent report from the World Bank Group, approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide still do not have any connection to a bank whatsoever. There is, nevertheless, a light at the end of this tunnel. The solution to this problem? Well, it could well be that of Decentralized Finance, or “DeFi”.
There is no shortage of innovative DeFi projects in 2020. Far from it, this year appears to be the one where the DeFi sector could be ready for the limelight. However, what DeFi projects are really setting themselves apart - and is it possible to develop socially innovative DeFi solutions? This article explains everything there is to know about decentralized finance and DeFi innovation!
Derivatives are one of the most sophisticated and mature instruments in the financial market. One of the most exciting things about DeFi is that it allows developers to recreate traditional financial instruments in a decentralized context. The DeFi derivatives market has garnered a lot of steam.
Aave is a decentralized money market protocol that enables users to lend and borrow cryptocurrencies in a trustless manner. There is a wide variety of cryptocurrencies to choose from, and Aave offers both stable and variable interest rates to its users.
Prediction markets use the “wisdom of the crowd” philosophy to make decisions on future events or outcomes. The events predicted can be extremely diverse, such as - elections, sales of a company, price fluctuations of commodities, etc. In this article, we will talk about DeFi prediction markets. These are prediction markets that use the advent of decentralized finance to drive the prediction systems.
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Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) for multiple tokens. It enables portfolio owners to create Balancer Pools where traders can then trade against these pools. Balancer is still a relatively new liquidity provider (LP) in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. It only launched in March 2020.
Those looking into the DeFi field will likely come across the term "yield farming". Yield Farming is the process of putting crypto tokens to productive use in a decentralized finance (DeFi) market to earn interest. Yield Farming takes place on the Ethereum blockchain, and yes, it is a way to earn passive income on Ethereum. But “hodling” ETH tokens is not the same thing as Yield Farming.
Anyone keeping an eye on the blockchain sector will know that the field of Decentralized Finance, commonly known as DeFi, is growing at a rapid pace. More and more banks and institutes are kickstarting Decentralized Finance projects in order to remain competitive and evolve their businesses. As such, it can be hard to keep track of the growing list of DeFi projects.
