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DeFi

Also called decentralised finance

What crypto means by it

Financial services built as open code rather than as companies. Lending, exchange and yield with no application form, and equally no support desk and no deposit insurance.

What you already know this as

The whole banking product set, unbundled and rebuilt as software anyone can use or fork.

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