Safeguarding one's investments is paramount within the rapidly evolving world of decentralized finance (DeFi). It is reported that cryptocurrency users lost approx. $2 billion to scams, rug pulls, and hacks in 2023. Similarly, over the course of Q1 2024, the industry saw its total losses climb to $348M, with experts predicting this trend to continue in the near to mid-term.

Liquidity is the lifeblood of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Without it, core DeFi functions like asset swapping, lending, and borrowing simply cannot operate. In fact, this very liquidity today has become a valuable commodity, with various market players — ranging from blockchains to protocols — willing to pay for it through interest rates, token airdrops, or governance token rewards. This has created a host of passive income opportunities for crypto users, making the simple act of "storing money in a wallet" increasingly less appealing.

We are truly living in transformative times with the ongoing emergence of crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) representing an evolutionary leap for humanity — one that stands to unlock new paradigms for building wealth and achieving financial freedom.

The past year has seen the total value locked (TVL) of the DeFi ecosystem boom tremendously, thanks, in large part, to the immense innovation permeating this sector. Amid this growth, Velodrome, a next-generation automated market maker (AMM), has made a name for itself, securing over $190 million in TVL and $ 8.4 billion in cumulative trading volume.

As the decentralized finance (DeFi) market has continued to evolve and grow, it has witnessed a substantial rise in the number of novel yield-bearing instruments permeating this space. To elaborate, the landscape currently spans more than a thousand blockchains alongside a myriad of protocols such as decentralized exchanges (DEX), lending platforms, cross-chain bridges, and much more, each offering their own unique earning opportunities.

With the crypto market continuing to grow at a rapid rate over the last couple of years, the domain of decentralized finance (DeFi) has witnessed a tremendous amount of innovation, be it within the realm of yield farming, staking, etc. To put things into a financial perspective, one can see that since the start of 2024 alone, the total value locked (TVL) within this space has risen from $56 to a little over $97 billion.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has expanded enormously over the last couple of years. This is best exhibited by the fact that despite being engulfed by a bear market over the vast majority of 2023, the sector’s total value locked (TVL) has grown from $70 billion to approx. $181 billion (as of Q1 2024), thus reflecting a growth of over 160%.

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The global decentralized finance (DeFi) economy has been on the receiving end of a lot of innovation over the last couple of years, something that is showcased by its expanding total value locked (TVL) since last year. To put things into perspective, since Q1 2023, the TVL of the DeFi market has risen from $49 billion to approx. $87 billion, thus showcasing a growth of 77.5%.