A Battle for Liquidity

Feb 24, 2022 • 6 Min Read

“Thy who controls the liquidity, controls the DeFi universe.”
- Anonymous DeFi Degen, 2022

To those familiar with legacy finance, it comes as no surprise that it is a capital-intensive business. Banks rely on deposits to transfer value via withdrawals, remittances, and credit services. Stock brokerages use stocks held by one customer to enable short-selling by another. Insurance firms collect premiums from those insured to pay out claimants.

DeFi is not dissimilar in this regard, except instead of paying a centralized financial entity to provide these services, value (read: profit ma...

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