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DeFi: Finance that never closes.
Lending, trading, derivatives and savings run by open smart contracts — accessible to anyone with a wallet.
Quick answer
What is DeFi?
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a set of financial applications built on blockchains that run through smart contracts instead of traditional intermediaries.
The DeFi toolkit
Credit
Lending
Borrow and lend with on-chain collateral.
Derivatives
Perpetuals
Leveraged trading on-chain.
Money
Stablecoins
The unit of account for most of DeFi.
DeFi
AAVE
Aave
—
Blue-chip on-chain lending
Details
- Utility
- Governance, safety module
- Ecosystem
- Multichain money markets, GHO stablecoin
- Risks
- Smart-contract and liquidation risk
- Catalysts
- New markets, RWA collateral
- Why we’re watching
- Benchmark DeFi lending protocol.
UNI
Uniswap
—
The default on-chain exchange
Details
- Utility
- Governance; fee switch debates
- Ecosystem
- Multi-chain DEX, v4 hooks
- Risks
- Fee-capture uncertainty
- Catalysts
- Fee switch activation
- Why we’re watching
- Largest open DEX brand.
AERO
Aerodrome
—
Base-native liquidity hub
Details
- Utility
- veAERO governance, incentives
- Ecosystem
- Base DeFi
- Risks
- Dependent on Base activity
- Catalysts
- Base growth
- Why we’re watching
- Pulse of the Base DeFi economy.
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Questions, answered
What is the biggest DeFi risk?
Smart-contract bugs and leverage. Start with audited, long-running protocols and small amounts.
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