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The Rise of Permissionless Credit Creation Introduction For centuries, the ability to create and extend credit has been tightly controlled by centralized financial institutions. Banks,...

For years, we’ve been describing decentralized finance (DeFi) as an alternative financial system—a better bank, a faster exchange, a more open lending market. That framing is...

“DeFi isn’t built on ETH—it’s built on dollars.” That line sounds provocative—almost heretical in a space obsessed with native tokens and Layer 1 wars. But if you zoom out and...

For years, decentralized finance sold a simple, powerful idea: anyone, anywhere, can access financial services without gatekeepers. No banks, no approvals, no identity checks—just code and...

For years, DeFi has been explained with the same two examples:lending protocols and token swaps. They’re useful. They’re foundational.But if that’s all DeFi were, it would just be a...