01/14/2022
Welcome to the world of Defi.
The future of finance, where you can make passive income with your crypto by providing liquidity.
Not to banks, but to apps.
Not dollars or euros or yen, but cryptocurrencies.
In 2020 and especially 2021, the world of Decentralized Finance has accelerated. The total market share doubled from Sept 2020 to Sept 2021. Translated into numbers, there’s close to 800 billion floating around in Defi space. That’s almost 1/3 of the total crypto market of 2.24 trillion as of December 2021.
There are many services in Defi like open lending protocols. In this piece, I focus on the decentralized exchanges, the so-called market makers, where you provide liquidity to farm tokens.
Compare this liquidity you provide as collateral for these exchanges to be able to offer token pairs. Many new token projects present themselves on DEX’s like Sushiswap and Pancakeswap, and what they love more than anything else is people putting trust in their project, by buying their token.
This can only happen on an exchange and they will reward those first token buyers with a high yield, the old interest banks would give, so to speak. You also will be able to stake your crypto liquidity pairs that are more stable, like a stablecoin like USDT versus BNB, the Binance native token.
There are 3 main players in the Automated market space (AMM). Sushiswap, Uniswap, and Pancakeswap.
I present a brief history and I’ll finish with my preference.
Which platform to consider for making passive income with your crypto?