DeFi
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DeFi
Decentralized Finance — an ecosystem of financial applications built on blockchains that offer services like lending, borrowing, trading, and insurance without traditional intermediaries. DeFi protocols are permissionless, transparent, and composable, meaning they can be combined like building blocks.
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