This is my entry into the Week 2 Steem cryptocurrency challenge, deep into DeFi.

This is my entry into the Week 2 Steem cryptocurrency challenge, deep into DeFi.

The rise of prominence of DeFi

Because of the global financial crisis, which preceded Covid-19 banks were paying less then 1% on deposit accounts, and the Covid-19 pandemic saw a crash in the American stock markets. These events lead many investors to invest in assets like gold, platinum and silver. But others outside the cryptocurrency world have come into cryptocurrency to invest in DeFi because of the attractive interest rates on DeFi investment applications.

The types of DeFi

Decentralized Finance applications are quite varied or diversified, but include simple staking of liquid tokens into i liquid forms in exchange of interest payments, actual deposits in platforms which loan your cryptocurrency for interest payments, credit debt facilities, which allow you to deposit funds, then borrow against them to earn interest, or more complex things like being a liquidity provider on a decentralized trading exchange.

The main change with DeFi in cryptocurrency can be described as a change from buy low sell high, to buy and earn dividend or interest payments, while also waiting to sell high.

In this respect cryptocurrency is maturing, and evolving away from a purely speculative type of investing with investors hoping to buy the next Bitcoin, that will increase in value 1000 times. It has matured to the point where investors are seeking cryptocurrency tokens which can used to make profits while you hold them. If you look at the spectrum of DeFi investments they are all about income producing tokens.

The amazing thing about Steem is Steemit, and Steemit was one of the first buy and earn projects.

Because of the application Steemit, investors in Steem are already investing in an income producing asset, which provides multiple ways to make income off your investment without selling it. Steemit has always allowed investors to earn interest on deposited Steem, which is common in DeFi. Additionally, DeFi is all about yields or income produced by different methods with purchased tokens and Steemit has always provided investors multiple ways to make money on their deposits.

The Ways Steemit allows investors to make income similar to current DeFi applications.

First, Steemit has a baseline yield of 6.5% inflation payable in the native Token Steem tokens powered up as Steem Power.
Second, Steemit allows you to earn curation rewards, directly proportinate to your investment.
Third, Steemit allows you to earn curation rewards on your upvotes of comments.
Fourth, Steemit allows you to earn author rewards by writing comments on others posts.
Fifth, Steemit allows you to earn author rewards by writing posts.
Sixth, Steemit allows you to earn curation rewards, by delegating SteemPower to other individuals or teams that focus on upvoting profitable authors or by supporting good content with upvotes.

Steemit is a very mature and secure project. New DeFi Programs are new, some are vulnerable to theft, Steemit wallet security is time tested.

Steemit is over four years old, most current DeFi projects are weeks, months or barely a year old. Steemit protects your cryptocurrency wallet with not one, but four types of passwords. Steemit Wallets have a masterpassword and three other less powerful alphanumeric keys for specific functions. This provides an unequally level of security.
Steemit code has been audited and been attacked by hackers, and it has become safer over time with no major hacks or thefts of cryptocurrency by hackers.

Steemit was doing decentralized finance before decentralized finance was cool.

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Questions?

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Steemit has fast free accounts, I can help you set up your account without knowing any of your passwords!

Fast Free Accounts

1. Create a new account via Steem Instant Sign-up LINK

2. Buy Steem on one of these exchanges: Binance, Upbit, Bithumb, Huobi Global, HitBTC, Binance, Bittrex, Bitvavo, VCC Exchange, MXC, CoinDCX, Gate.io, WazirX, Poloniex, Upbit, RuDex and Altilly.

3. Transfer the Steem to your new account wallet on Steemit

4. Power up your Steem to Steem Power.

5. Start earning interest on your Steem 8.5%

Do you want to earn more? Yield Earn addition returns while your Steem stays safely in your wallet!

Delegate your Steem Power to Steem-Staking

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After clicking the link, you will be asked to confirm your username and the amount of SP you like to delegate.
Please sign with your active private key.
Remember to leave at least 50SP in your account.

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After clicking the link, you will be asked to confirm your username and the amount of SP you like to delegate.
Please sign with your active private key.
Remember to leave at least 50SP in your account.

Your done!
Your account will start receivIng weekly payments starting in about seven days.
Steem-Staking will list your delegation in the Steem-Staking Report, and the expected date of the first interest payment.

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The Steemit Platform did DeFi Before DeFi was cool!

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