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>People have been saying this for over a decade now. Mainstream applications are just around the corner, wait and see! We have waited, and all we've seen is baseless speculation

DeFi isn't even 2 years old yet. This whole space really only started building applications in the last few years. Ethereum itself isn't even 6 years old yet.




DeFi is just a rebranding of smart contracts, which are still a hammer looking for a nail. If anything, it's just more baseless speculation like GP said.


It's the open sourcing and decentralizing of wall street. What do you think they do all day with futures, options, etc? It's speculation.

All that is being replicated in DeFi but permissionless and open to the world.




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