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Lending & Borrowing

In-depth articles on blockchain technology, DeFi protocols, consensus mechanisms, and the infrastructure powering decentralised finance.

Lending & Borrowing articles

4 articles
Lending & Borrowing 12 min read

How DeFi Lending Protocols Work

A comprehensive overview of on-chain lending mechanics, including supply and borrow pools, interest rate models, interest-bearing tokens, health factors, and...
Lending & Borrowing 15 min read

Overcollateralized Lending: Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO

A detailed comparison of the three dominant DeFi lending protocols, covering their architectures, token models, interest rate mechanisms, governance structur...
Lending & Borrowing 13 min read

Flash Loans: Uncollateralized Borrowing

How flash loans enable uncollateralized borrowing within a single atomic transaction, their legitimate use cases including arbitrage and collateral swaps, fe...
Lending & Borrowing 14 min read

What Is Liquidation in DeFi?

A thorough explanation of the DeFi liquidation process, including health factor calculations, liquidation thresholds, the role of liquidator bots, liquidatio...