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Open Source Finance: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Movement

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Ilhan Cem Duru
Aug 11, 2020

DeFi’s are shaping open source finance and promising an accessible, verifiable, decentralized and censorship-resistant way to access financial services.

Open source finance refers to financial softwares and softwares as a service of which the source code is made publicly available. Combined with the power of blockchain, open source financial software built on public chains are collectively referred to as Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.

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Ilhan Cem Duru

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