From a game of chance to a game of strategyImage courtesy of PixabayDecentralized Finance (DeFi) is on fire right now. It seems like everyone is talking about it and every blockchain developer seems to be working on a DeFi project. Meanwhile, investors are looking for every opportunity to make money on the DeFi platforms coming online.Indeed, we may be on the verge of experiencing an investment craze similar to the ICO one. This is despite the current short term instability of the market. Nevertheless, nobody knows how exactly DeFi will turn out in the long term. What we can bet on, though, is that the innovations we see in the space are going to change for good how asset markets, in particular crypto markets, operate.For example, a few years ago, hardly anyone would imagine that the order book model in exchanges could be replaced by a smart contract protocol that collects funds from individual investors (liquid providers) to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers in the crypto market place.The smart contract managed liquidity pool model was first introduced by the Bancor project. In the recent past, the projects implementing this model with the most success include the decentralized exchange Uniswap.The biggest opportunity that the new space seems to offer investors comes in the form of yield farming.What is Yield farming?Yield farming is any activity an investor engages in on a decentralized finance ((DeFi) application that runs on a blockchain like Ethereum to increase their worth.It includes lending, arbitraging, margin trading, and providing liquidity to markets. Some are old tricks implemented in new ways and others are completely new stuff.Many things make yield farming different from crypto investment models we\u2019ve seen in the past and in particular ICOs.One that stands out is the opportunities for DeFi applications to be platforms where\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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