Crypto & blockchain

DeFi

Financial services built on smart contracts.

Terms

3 terms

  • DeFi

    DeFi, or decentralized finance, is the set of financial services such as trading, lending and borrowing run by smart contracts on public blockchains.

  • DEX

    A DEX, or decentralized exchange, is a DeFi protocol that lets users swap crypto tokens through smart contracts without handing custody to an intermediary.

  • Liquidity pool

    A liquidity pool is a smart contract holding reserves of two or more tokens so traders can swap against it in DeFi without a traditional order…