Issue #23: The Bull Case for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

This issue of Monetary Mechanics is going to be a bit different. While I am most assuredly not an expert on cryptocurrency or decentralized finance (DeFi) by any means, I have become cautiously optimistic about DeFi’s potential to disrupt the plumbing and architecture of the traditional financial system.

This issue of Monetary Mechanics is going to be a bit different. I have always been intensely interested in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi), and after doing extensive research on these topics, with helpful feedback from experts in these fields, I have become cautiously optimistic about DeFi’s potential to disrupt the plumbing and architecture of the traditional financial system. While I hold no personal opinion regarding the return potential of any individual speculative cryptocurrency asset, I am highly interested in the “financial technology” behind DeFi and how it might be…

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