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Guide

DeFi Fundamentals

A plain-English tour of lending, DEXs, LSTs, and the plumbing behind every yield strategy.

18 min read

What is DeFi, actually?

DeFi is the set of financial primitives that run as open-source smart contracts on permissionless blockchains. You don't ask to use them; you just connect a wallet.

The four primitives worth learning first

Stablecoins, DEXs, money markets, and liquid staking. Master these and most of the surface of DeFi becomes legible.

More chapters of this guide ship with the Sanity CMS integration. For now this is a structural placeholder.

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    @cipher@cipher18m ago

    Accumulation phase textbook — watch exchange reserves, not price. Whales are quietly resetting cost basis.

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    @degenqueen@degenqueen45m ago

    The rotation from alts back to majors is real. I'm sizing into ETH on every wick below $3.7K.

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    @satstack@satstack1h ago

    Macro tail is constructive through Q2: two rate cuts priced in, DXY weakening, sovereign desks accumulating. BTC $120K base case isn't spicy — it's boring consensus now.

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    @readeronly@readeronly4h ago

    Long-time lurker, first comment. Appreciate how the AI takes actually cite on-chain cohorts. Please keep the SOPR chart section.