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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an alternative to traditional financial services. More specifically, DeFi consists of smart contracts, which, in turn, power decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols.

Many of the initial DeFi applications were built on Ethereum, and the majority of the ecosystem’s total value locked (TVL) remains concentrated there.

Here are some of the ways people are engaging with DeFi today:

Lending: Lend out your crypto and earn interest and rewards every minute - not once per month.
Getting a loan: Obtain a loan instantly without filling in paperwork, including extremely short-term “flash loans” that traditional financial institutions don’t offer.
Trading: Make peer-to-peer trades of certain crypto assets — as if you could buy and sell stocks without any kind of brokerage.
Saving for the future: Put some of your crypto into savings account alternatives and earn better interest rates than you’d typically get from a bank.
Buying derivatives: Make long or short bets on certain assets. Think of these as the crypto version of stock options or futures contracts.

WARNING: Investing in NFTs, cryptocurrencies and other Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) is highly risky and speculative, and these links and discussions are not recommendations by Exploding Heads or the writer to invest in NFTs, cryptocurrencies or other ICOs.

Since each individual's situation is unique, a qualified professional should always be consulted before making any financial decisions. Exploding Heads makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or timeliness of the information contained herein.

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Programming languages prevent mainstream DeFi (cointelegraph.com)

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The key to DeFi being both innovative and safe stems from the same source: Give developers an easy way to create and interact with assets and make assets and their intuitive behavior a native feature. Any asset created should always behave predictably and in line with common sense financial principles.

In the asset-oriented programming paradigm, creating an asset is as easy as calling a native function. The platform knows what an asset is: .initial_supply_fungible(1000) creates a fungible token with a fixed supply of 1000 (beyond supply, many more token configuration options are available as well) while functions such as .take and .put take tokens from somewhere and put them elsewhere.

Instead of developers writing complex logic instructing smart contracts to update lists of variables with all the error-checking that entails, in asset-oriented programming, operations that anyone would intuitively expect as fundamental to DeFi are native functions of the language. Tokens can’t be lost or drained because asset-oriented programming guarantees they can’t.

This is how you get both innovation and safety in DeFi. And this is how you change the perception of the mainstream public from one where DeFi is the wild west to one where DeFi is where you have to put your savings, as otherwise, you’

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