Defi Manual: Part 5 — Synergies

xuanling11
3 min readSep 20, 2021
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Here are my previous series in case you wonder:

Defi Manual: Part 1 — Cefi vs. Defi

Defi Manual: Part 2 — Regulations

Defi Manual: Part 3 — Financial Weapons

Defi Manual: Part 4 — Market Manipulation

Defi and Cefi are ongoing debates of the future financial system will be like. Since I cannot predict the future, I may share one of the possible ways for Defi and Cefi to coexist in the future.

What is a Synergy?

Synergy is a way to combine two different systems and work together as one.

Benefits of Defi

The first thing you may think of Defi is decentralized. However, what is really decentralized? A decentralized system is fair and transparent. It also protected your privacy.

Downside of Defi

Some disadvantages of Defi you can experience are high transaction costs and confirmation latency that may delay your transactions. Also, the transaction is in one direction and cannot reverse if you send it by a mistake.

Benefits of Cefi

You may think there are not so many advantages of Cefi but there are. Security is the first benefit from Cefi in that they are heavily guarded and hard to penetrate…

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