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DeFi

Decentralised Finance — financial instruments and markets built on blockchain, without banks.

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Books
Book

The Infinite Machine — Camila Russo

The definitive story of Ethereum's creation — Vitalik Buterin, the early contributors, and how a teenager's white paper became programmable money. The most human account of how a world-changing protocol was born.

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People
Person

Camila Russo

Former Bloomberg crypto reporter who founded The Defiant in 2019, the leading editorial outlet covering decentralised finance. The Infinite Machine traces Ethereum from Vitalik's whitepaper to the DeFi summer of 2020.

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Tools & media
Tool

DeFi Pulse

Track the total value locked in DeFi protocols. The real-time health monitor of decentralised finance.

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Aave

The leading decentralised lending and borrowing protocol — supply assets to earn yield or borrow against collateral with no bank, no KYC, no middleman. AAVE is the governance token.

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Hyperliquid

Fully on-chain perpetuals exchange with CEX-level performance — sub-second finality, an on-chain order book, and its own L1 (HyperEVM). HYPE is one of the most successful fair-launch tokens in crypto.

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If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. — Satoshi Nakamoto