What is DeFi? How it Works?

in #defi4 years ago

Defi6.jpgDecentralized finance is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the world right now. It involves building financial applications on blockchain networks and operates through an open-source, permissionless, and trustless mechanism.

The Working Structure of Decentralized Finance

➼ Identical records of the users will be maintained across thousands of computers through a peer to peer network by using distributed ledger technology.

➼ It uses DApps and smart contracts to conduct daily operations.

➼ Users just need a smartphone and internet to access basic financial services at an affordable cost regardless of their geographical location. It will mainly benefit the unbanked sections of the population who are currently isolated by the traditional financial system.

➼ The public key will work as the users’ digital wallet. The private key can be used to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The private key is utilized to authorize a transaction and the block will be added to the distributed ledger once others on the network verify it.

➼ Everyone will possess a pseudonymous address which will be a mix of random numbers and letters.

➼ Decentralized information feeds and algorithms will automatically determine interest rates, currency values, and exchange rates.

➼ People gain more control over their funds and assets in the absence of any intermediaries in the system.

➼ DeFi has plenty of use cases like lending and borrowing, monetary banking services, decentralized exchanges, insurance, asset management, prediction markets, stablecoin development, identity management, tokenization, staking, investments, lottery systems, and payments.

➼ DeFi is facing multiple challenges in the form of poor performance, low liquidity, operational risks, technical bugs, capital inefficiency, uncertain regulations, a cluttered ecosystem, a high chance of user error, and bad user experience.

➼ Decentralized finance will take the power and control from the large centralized authorities and put it in the hands of the individual. It prevents transaction censorship and any form of economic or social discrimination.

➼ The benefits of DeFi are better interoperability, programmability, high immutability, greater transparency, and self-custody of assets.

➼ Decentralized finance projects are being actively developed on different blockchain networks like Ethereum, TRON, EOS, and IOST.

Blockchain App Factory is also keeping pace with the revolution being created by Decentralized finance by offering various services such as consulting for market-making, decentralized crypto banking, creating derivatives trading platforms, decentralized fund management, DeFi yield farming development, DeFi smart contract development, DeFi DApps development, DeFi token creation, and DeFi wallet integration.

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