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Decentralized Finance (DeFi): An Emergent Alternative Financial Architecture

Critical Blockchain Research Initiative (CBRI) Working Papers

12 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2021

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Usman W. Chohan

Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS); Critical Blockchain Research Initiative (CBRI); International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA); University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Date Written: January 26, 2021

Abstract

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers the promise of an emergent alternative financial architecture that prioritizes disintermediation and decentralization to empower individuals along cryptoanarchist principles. Yet it is mired in considerable difficulties including market manipulation, distortionary incentives, excess short-termism, Ponzi-schemes, and money-laundering challenges that also foment a considerable level of dissuasion against DeFi’s wider adoption. This paper critically evaluates many of these important facets at a time when DeFi is emerging as a disintermediated and experimental financial praxis.

Keywords: blockchain, cryptocurrency, DeFi, decentralized finance, networks

Suggested Citation

Chohan, Usman W., Decentralized Finance (DeFi): An Emergent Alternative Financial Architecture (January 26, 2021). Critical Blockchain Research Initiative (CBRI) Working Papers, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791921 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3791921

Usman W. Chohan (Contact Author)

Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) ( email )

Islamabad
Pakistan

Critical Blockchain Research Initiative (CBRI) ( email )

International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA) ( email )

HYPIA
www.polyglotassociation.org
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

University of New South Wales (UNSW) ( email )

Kensington
High St
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia

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