Decentralized finance (often stylized as DeFi) offers financial instruments without relying on intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks by using smart contracts on a blockchain. DeFi platforms allow people to lend or borrow funds from others, speculate on price movements on assets using derivatives, trade cryptocurrencies, insure against risks, and earn interest in savings-like accounts. DeFi uses a layered architecture and highly composable building blocks.
- [DeFi platforms allow people to lend and borrow money from others, speculate on the price movements of assets using derivatives, trade in cryptocurrencies, insure against risk, and earn interest on accounts like savings, speculate on the price movements of assets using derivatives, trade cryptocurrencies, insure against risk, and earn interest on savings-like accounts.
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