![]() ![]() Yearn Finance (YFI) was $26,571 on December 20. The AAVE coin was priced at $85 on December 20. But as a retail investor, I am on board with the thousands of others who are all learning day-by-day and are investing in these companies and protocols side-by-side with our traditional E-Trade accounts. Right now, I don’t know what most of this means. ![]() Some of the most talked about names are those involved in decentralized exchanges (Uniswap, 0x) interest rate protocols (Aave) lending protocols (MakerDAO) are creating synthetic assets like tokenized Tesla shares (Synthetix, UMA) automated investing (Yearn Finance), and numerous investment Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (that’s what DAO stands for), just to name a few. ![]() In 2020, there was an explosion of new centralized and decentralized financial protocols created on Ethereum. I liked this blog post by them: how not to make thousands of dollars with DeFi.Ī number of cryptocurrencies have been issued by DeFi companies. ICOs and stablecoins would eventually play a key role in the growth of decentralized finance,” he says. Then a year later, the first stablecoin was created with BitShares (up 400% since December 20). “They applied a new mechanism of fundraising, very similar to the IPOs. “We can say DeFi got started around 2013, with the first Initial Coin Offering, called Mastercoin (now Omni),” says Nikita Soshnikov, director of Alfacash Store, a 9-year old cryptocurrency exchange based in Estonia. It reportedly hit $40 billion this year, based on industry data across a host of sources and cryptocurrency exchanges. The growth of the DeFi industry accelerated in 2020, growing from $700 million by December 2019 to $13billion on December 31, 2020. In the sci-fi world of digital currencies, DeFi creators want to cut out traditional banks and brokers, allowing for the potential to facilitate faster, cheaper, financial transactions, all day every day, with no minimum transaction amounts, no paperwork, full transparency, and auditability. ![]()
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