It was a wonderfully sunny day, right at the start of Corona\/DeFi season. Outside, the call of birds and the smell of spring teased us outdoors, into the arms of a world bereft of its inhabitants. Green candles kept us glued to our screens as DeFi value took off like infection rates on the Diamond Princess. Nothing could have cured my COVID blues quite like getting some free money, and that\u2019s exactly what I missed with COMP. Compound, the Coinbase-backed money market platform for DeFi, ceremoniously launched their native token in April, allocating some precious supply to its users for free.And thus began a new trend. The Initial DeFi Offering. IDO, the big cousin of the Initial Coin Offering or ICO. Instead of distributing tokens to those who pay, IDOs distribute to those that use.A trend was emerging and Uniswap was next.Topping the chart of DeFi dApps based on Total Value Locked (TVL), Uniswap was another VC-backed behemoth that had a reason to issue its early backers some exit capital. So I started using. On multiple accounts. A liquidity pool here, a trade there. It was one Friday morning in September when I awoke to free tokens across my many Uniswap-eligible accounts. That sweet, sweet stimulus made me dizzy and drunk on success.It was Christmas Day 2020 and the weather was sunny and frigid. As we gathered for a sip of mulled wine and delicious home-baked pie, I got word of yet another airdrop that just went live. This time it was 1inch\u2019s turn. Unlike Uniswap, which is a single liquidity network, 1inch is part of an exciting collective known as \u2018DeFi aggregators\u2019 that combine several applications in one platform. 1inch\u2019s function is to split up a single order across multiple DEXs, giving traders the best exchange rate for their\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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