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49: What is Decentralized Finance?


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DeFi or Decentralized Finance is a growing trend in the cryptocurrency space. In this episode we break down Finance into four easy to components, and make a comparison between the relationship of the components to Decentralization.

  • Storage of Money
  • Sending and Receiving of Money
  • Credit (Lending and Loaning of Money)
  • Investment (Investment of Money)
  • This discussion spans many topics, including a brief history of Ethereum and the innovations that have allowed for finance to take place in a decentralized way.

     

    Read Keegan's newsletter on Your Primer for  DeFi here - https://keeganfrancis.substack.com/p/your-primer-for-defi

     

    (00:00) - Introduction

    (00:56) - What is Decentralized Finance?

    (03:03) - What are the main financial services you get at a bank?

    (08:35) - Banks are still businesses

    (11:18) - DeFi entities are built upon a foundation of Transparency, and Accessibility

    (19:18) - If we were still using gold, the money itself would be decentralized

    (21:59) - The ability to invest, and the value of the Ethereum Platform

    (33:06) - Summary, and Closing Thoughts

     

    Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.

    Visit the Go Full Crypto website at: https://www.gofullcrypto.com

     

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