Bitcoin DEFI

DEFI can also be seen as permissionless finance; it allows any user in any part of the world access to financial services without the need for any identification or limitations on location. It will enable people to access global capital markets and leverage their assets to earn a yield and more. 

The key benefits of DEFI include:

• Open: You don’t need to apply for anything or “open” an account. You get access by creating a wallet.
• Pseudonymous: You don’t need to provide your name, email address, or personal information.
• Flexible: You can move your assets anywhere at any time, without asking for permission, waiting for long transfers to finish, and paying expensive fees.
• Fast: Interest Rates and rewards often update rapidly (as quickly as every 15 seconds) and can be significantly higher than traditional Wall Street.
• Transparent: Everyone involved can see the complete set of transactions (private corporations rarely grant that kind of transparency)

Users typically engage with DeFi via software called dapps (“decentralised apps”); these are applications that run on a blockchain. Unlike a conventional bank, there is no application to fill out or account to open. The user interacts with a smart contract and makes agreements based on specific criteria either to lock up capital, to lend, to borrow or access money.

Some of the popular ways people are engaging with DeFi today are as follows:

• Lending: Lend out your crypto and earn interest and rewards every minute – not once per month.
• Getting a loan: Obtain a loan instantly without filling in paperwork, including extremely short-term “flash loans” that traditional financial institutions don’t offer.
• Trading: Make peer-to-peer trades of specific assets such as bitcoin and stablecoins — as if you could buy and sell stocks without any brokerage.
• Saving for the future: Put some of your bitcoin into savings account alternatives and earn better interest rates than you’d typically get from a bank. 
• Buying derivatives: Make long or short bets on certain assets. Think of these as the crypto version of stock options or futures contracts.