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Disrupting traditional finance or improving global payment rails are two of the more widely accepted future use cases for crypto, while we argue there’s room for a third in DePIN.
0xSmac • DePIN's Imperfect Present & Promising Future: A Deep Dive - Compound Writing
The decentralized economy will truly be unleashed.As we move towards a future with broadband liquidity, it becomes challenging to imagine what, exactly, that future looks like. While we know that deep liquidity will enable reliable pricing and less volatility, the implications are much more intriguing.
BanklessDAO • Liquidity is bandwidth on Bankless
Most of the "tokenized securities" being hyped are "digital stock certificates", not permission-less decentralized businesses with on-chain cash flows & dividends.
The former is a cash grab by under-writers, the latter is the potential 10x disruption (a precursor to full DAOs).
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is the ecosystem of financial applications being built with blockchain technology and without banks. Characteristics: Non-Custodial, o pen, t ransparent, d ecentralized
The Defiant • ✊The Defiant's Definitive Guide to DeFi
Growth incentives Compound, an on-chain lending protocol, decentralized itself in June 2020, with its core developers turning over the network's operation and ownership. Community members had control over the protocol's reserve assets generated by borrowers in a Compound Governance DAO. This was (at the time) the highest revenue generated by an on-... See more
Tarun Chitra • Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters - a16z crypto
In DeFi, some projects have started to allow passive fund management to occur in a decentralized manner. The transparency of DeFi makes it easy for users to track how their funds are being managed and understand the cost they will be paying.
Sze Jin Teh • How to DeFi: Beginner
Unlike most stablecoin platforms, Maker is fully operating on the distributed ledger. Thus, Maker inherently possesses the characteristics of the blockchain: secured, immutable, and most importantly, transparent. Additionally, Maker’s infrastructures have strengthened the system’s security with comprehensive risk protocols and mechanisms via real-t
... See moreSze Jin Teh • How to DeFi: Beginner
6. De-Fi and D-apps differ on two major fronts. First, De-Fi projects are necessarily financial in nature while D-apps are not. Second, D-apps lack a comprehensive governance structure, that is an active component in De-Fi.