This blog post is be split up into four sections: What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? (You are here!) Application 1: Decentralized Exchanges Application 2: Stablecoins and DAOs Application 3: Lending Platforms Part 1: What even is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? Most people have now heard of cryptocurrencies, the new FinTech craze. Whether it’s due to Tesla’s $1.5B investment in…

By Federico Reyes Gómez, Weihua Hu, and Jure Leskovec Homepage: https://medium.com/stanford-cs224w These Graph Machine Learning tutorials and case studies are a culmination of many months of work by the students of CS224W, Stanford University’s course on Machine Learning with Graphs, with a focus on the exciting field of Graph Neural…

This blog post is be split up into four sections: What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? Application 1: Decentralized Exchanges Application 2: Stablecoins and DAOs Application 3: Lending Platforms (You are here!) Part 4: Lending Platforms We’re now at our third and (for now) final application of Decentralized Finance: peer to peer lending, one of…

This blog post is be split up into four sections: What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? Application 1: Decentralized Exchanges Application 2: Stablecoins and DAOs (You are here!) Application 3: Lending Platforms Part 3: Stablecoins and DAOs Now that we’ve looked at Decentralized Exchanges, a practical application of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), we can turn to a…

This blog post is be split up into four sections: What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? Application 1: Decentralized Exchanges (You are here!) Application 2: Stablecoins and DAOs Application 3: Lending Platforms Part 2: Decentralized Exchanges One of the simplest and most natural decentralized finance applications is a decentralized exchange. In a traditional exchange, you…