DeFi
Decentralized finance uses blockchain-based smart contracts to provide trading, lending, and other financial functions with varying degrees of decentralization.
Digital-asset terms for decentralized finance, smart contracts, staking, and blockchain-based financial applications.
DeFi, Staking, and On-Chain Finance explains decentralized protocols, smart-contract controls, staking, collateralized borrowing, and other on-chain financial activity from an investment-risk perspective.
Use this branch when token rights, custody, liquidity, protocol risk, exchange venue, reserve backing, regulatory treatment, or on-chain mechanics changes the financial exposure.
| Term | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | Protocol-based trading, lending, borrowing, liquidity, and settlement without relying on a conventional intermediary for every function. |
| Smart Contract | Programmed rules that execute transactions, maintain balances, control assets, or enforce protocol parameters. |
| Stability Fee | The governance-set carrying cost that accrues on eligible Maker/Sky protocol debt and affects a position’s debt balance and collateral ratio. |
| Staking | Token commitment used in some networks or protocols for validation, governance, security, or reward eligibility. |
Check the token right, issuer or protocol, custody model, private-key control, reserve backing, exchange venue, liquidity, smart-contract risk, regulatory treatment, and whether the asset has an economic claim.
Digital-asset markets can be volatile and operationally fragile; this page is educational and does not recommend buying, selling, holding, or staking any token.
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Decentralized finance uses blockchain-based smart contracts to provide trading, lending, and other financial functions with varying degrees of decentralization.
A smart contract is code and state deployed on a blockchain to execute programmed rules for transactions, balances, assets, or financial protocols.
A stability fee is the variable protocol charge that accrues on debt generated against eligible collateral in Maker/Sky vault accounting.
Staking commits eligible cryptoassets to proof-of-stake network operations or related services in exchange for uncertain rewards and exposure to loss.