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Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a growing subculture of dApps that aimed to decentralize finance. The term was first used in August 2018 in a Telegram group chat. DeFi has grown to include over one million users, at a total valuation that exceeded one-hundred billion dollars as of April 2021. The brilliance of DeFi is that it cuts out the middleman and replaces it with code, or blockchain smart contracts. As DeFi continues to scale, the promise of a more efficient and democratic money system becomes a more likely reality.