Gradually, then Suddenly – Can DeFi become Viable Alternative to Traditional Finance?

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DeFi is evolving to leverage blockchain’s properties like decentralization and transparency to provide financial services to any individual with an internet connection and a mobile device. They have proven to be a useful tool for crypto enthusiasts as they found new ways to earn income by lending their crypto assets on DeFi platforms. Beyond financial services, several industries including e-commerce, gaming, real estate, and sports have discovered various use cases of DeFi.

Traditional finance is riddled with issues that arise due to its requirement of middlemen carrying out financial transactions. An increasingly connected world has highlighted such drawbacks, where intermediaries like banks charge high fees to become entry barriers for accessing various financial instruments. Hence, there has been a growing need for an alternative financial system with lower transaction fees and improved accessibility.

Since September 2020, DeFi witnessed a whopping 816% growth to register $78.8 billion in its TVL by the end of September 2021, which could be primarily attributed to the growing pace in transition to more attractive financial products like yield farming. DeFi market cap reached $115 billion by the end of September 2021, a growth of 420.0% from January 2021. By the end of Q3 2021, 3.35 million unique addresses used at least one DeFi protocol, a growth of 90% since the end of Q1 2021. DeFi claims several properties native to blockchain technology, enhanced by flexible blockchain platforms like Ethereum that are programmable and act as marketplaces for many applications to transform traditional finance.

DeFi stepped into the limelight as a new investment tool to utilize crypto assets. Its mentions are on the rise across print media, social media, and company filings of banks and other enterprises to offer DeFi services. It holds a promise to provide financial services, even for the unbanked, from any location, 24/7 and at lower costs, higher speed mainly due to the elimination of intermediaries.

This report highlights how startups and enterprises are leveraging DeFi to change the way we embrace financial services using cryptos. It also draws attention to how business leaders and major industries like automotive, energy, and healthcare can be benefitted in the future with the adoption of DeFi.

What are the market dynamics in DeFi?

DeFi allows any individual to buy, sell, lend, and borrow to interact peer-to-peer (P2P) by removing intermediaries. It serves as an alternative to banks for the underserved and unbanked populations by giving access to financial instruments like loans. DeFi is built on decentralized blockchain networks so that the information is spread across multiple nodes on thousands of computers via a P2P network. It enables censorship resistance; every user has self-custody of their assets regardless of credit history or social standing. 

DeFi promises to transform traditional finance into transparent protocols without middlemen via blockchain powered smart contracts. It aims to tackle dissatisfaction in the financial ecosystem by influencing the speed and cost of transactions. While startups push the envelope for innovative DeFi applications beyond financial services to industries such as e commerce, the focus of enterprises is on merging DeFi offerings with their existing portfolio.

What are the emerging concepts in the DeFi development?

Digital IDs: Digital IDs can help in onboarding and reverification during transactions. In the future, digital IDs could be tied to biometric recognition. Bloom, a US-based startup is trying to bridge the gap between DeFi and digital IDs.

DeFi intelligence: Integrating DeFi with AI technologies to unlock advanced capabilities like AI-mitigated risk management, intelligent lending, and insurance to incorporate liquidation history and transaction patterns can be the next big step in DeFi evolution.

DeFi NFTs: The Interest-bearing NFTs created by depositing ERC tokens into NFT can unlock new revenue streams for industry influencers, bloggers, artists, musicians, videographers, and social media content creators.

DeCloud: Decentralized Cloud or DeCloud has the potential to accelerate deployment, scaling, and price performance of high-growth domains like AI. The future of cloud computing would be permissionless and open.

DeFi, key concepts

DeFi, key concepts

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Who are few of the startups that dominates NFT development across major applications?

ParaFi Capital, DeFi Alliance, and CMS Holdings are the top three investors to promote DeFi startups.  Other key companies that promote startups are AU21 Capital, Polychain Capital LLC, NGC Ventures, Genblock Capital, Defiance Capital LLC, Moonwhale, Ventures Pte Ltd, and X21 Digital.

Market report scope

Market Capitalization (Year- Sep 2021) $115 billion
 Period October 2021
Emerging concepts Digital IDs, DeFi Intelligence, DeCloud, and Defi NFTs
Companies Covered ParaFi Capital, DeFi Alliance, CMS Holdings, Trustworks, GoldFinx, Definer, Pumapay, Fireblocks, Trustworks, GoldFinx, Definer, Pumapay, Fireblocks and others

Scope

  • Technology Decoding: presents the technology overview, growing interests in the technology, major milestones, DeFi vs TradFi, Ethereum vs Binance, ecosystem players, major applications, and a market map with potential use cases and popular players (startups as well as enterprises).
  • Media & Trend Analysis: highlights the technology presentation from the media perspective – major news, initiatives from banks and financial institutions, the social media buzz promoting the technology, and job hirings for the technology. Also, includes mentions of the technology from company annual and other filings.
  • Investment Radar: outlines the venture capital funding trends with some of the popular deals, country-wise funding, recently funded select startups, and notable investors and accelerators pumping millions into the technology growth.
  • Innovation Explorer: introduces game-changing company innovations with a spotlight on startups. Select company partnerships inclined at future technology adoption are also mentioned.
  • IP Landscaping: provides a broad-level analysis of the trends in patent filings and grants, priority countries, and key patent filers in the technology. Also, highlights unique patents by enterprises.
  • The Road Ahead: summarizes the drivers and challenges, use cases that can become successful with business leaders, potential applications in new horizons, and the outlook of the technology.

Key Highlights

DeFi overview and its key applications across industries, ecosystem and major stakeholders in each industry, buzz created in the media, VC investment trends, innovations across industries and examples related to implementation of DeFi, trends in patent filings and grants, and the future potential of DeFi.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Technology Decoding: Overview, Key applications, and Major market players

2. Media & Trend Analysis: News publication trends, Thought leadership, Social media traction, Company filings, Active jobs by companies

3. Investment Radar: VC investment trends, Top countries by most deals, Top funded startups, Most active investors and accelerators

4. Innovation Explorer: Key innovators, startups under spotlight and major company partnerships

5. IP Landscaping: IP Filing trends

6. The Road Ahead: Drivers and challenges, Emerging concepts, Potential use cases for business leaders, Futuristic industry applications, Outlook

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