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Centralized finance is necessary, especially for DeFi crypto investors

Published 09/27/2020, 11:00 AM
Updated 09/27/2020, 12:40 PM
Centralized finance is necessary, especially for DeFi crypto investors

If you’re paying attention to developments in the cryptocurrency space, you’ve likely heard of decentralized finance and of the yield farming trend that helped it get over $9 billion worth of crypto assets locked in it.

In short, yield farming — also known as liquidity mining — sees users generate rewards with their cryptocurrency holdings by interacting with DeFi protocols that either let them lend or borrow tokens. These interactions grant them the protocols’ governance tokens, which both give them a “stake” in the protocol and more revenue.

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