Blockchain and cryptocurrency are the core applied sciences that enable decentralized finance. DeFi challenges this centralized financial system by disempowering middlemen and gatekeepers, and empowering on an everyday basis individuals through peer-to-peer exchanges. Flash loans are a more experimental form of decentralized lending that let you borrow with out collateral

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