DeFi — short for decentralized finance — is a new vision of banking and financial services that is based on peer-to-peer payments through blockchain technology. Via blockchain, DeFi allows “trust-less ...

Traditional financial (TradFi) systems have served us relatively well for ages. But growing misgivings about them, like the much-publicized Trump family debanking, have sent us looking for suitable ...

E. Napoletano is a former registered financial advisor and award-winning author and journalist. Michael is former Deputy Editor, Cryptocurrency at Forbes Advisor. He began his financial writing career ...

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, is a global, open-source alternative to the current financial system with products that let you borrow, save, invest, and trade. DeFi describes a system of financial ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Decentralized finance, also known as ...

A look at 2025’s passive DeFi shift and how AI vault systems like AlphaVault aim to automate yield without constant user ...

2023 marked a shift in the US regulatory outlook for decentralised finance (DeFi), with the protocols (i.e., the standards, codes, and procedures) that govern DeFi increasingly becoming subject to ...

What is DeFi (decentralized finance)? After Bitcoin’s launch in 2009, a robust industry blossomed, stemming from the asset, its concept and its underlying technology. The crypto and blockchain space ...