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What is DeFi in Crypto?

Traditional financial (TradFi) systems have served us relatively well for ages. But growing misgivings about them, like the much-publicized Trump family debanking, have sent us looking for suitable ...
Rakesh Sharma is a writer with 8+ years of experience about the intersection between technology and business. Rakesh is an expert in investing, business, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. Amilcar has ...
As Wall Street moves onchain, the year's biggest crypto hack and DeFi crisis is forcing a rethink of risk, security and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) were meant to embody the promise of DeFi: open, borderless, peer-to-peer markets that couldn’t be ...
The DeFi plot thickens as a flood of new crypto regulations is expected in 2025 that would accelerate institutional adoption. The wild card in this game is whether or not the U.S. alongside other ...
Access to capital in trading and investing has never been evenly distributed. Traditional systems tend to favor people with strong credit or large deposits, which leaves many capable traders stuck on ...
DeFi is carrying nearly $200M in bad debt after this week's KelpDAO hack. Euler, Project 0 and Whop don't agree on what that means for retail DeFi.
In today’s "Crypto for Advisors" newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal from the DeFi Education Fund breaks down decentralized finance and surveys investors in the space. Then, in "Ask an Expert", Sam Boboev ...